Online tools

Converters, validators and other useful stuff will be posted here.

Post form-data


function post_data($url, $data, $opt_headers = null)
{
$parameters = array('http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => $data
));
if ($opt_headers !== null)
{
$parameters['http']['header'] = $opt_headers;
}
$context = stream_context_create($parameters);
$f = @fopen($url, 'rb', false, $context);
if (!$f)
{
echo "Problem with $url\n";
}
$response = @stream_get_contents($f);
if ($response === false)
{
echo "Problem reading data from $url\n";
}

Mac OS X Tools anyone?

A very nice compilation of tools for Mac OS X can be found here:

http://www.secsocial.com/blog/?page_id=19

The root-zone is finally signed

After several years of hard work the root-zone is signed.
A great leap forward for DNSSEC.

Check out http://www.root-dnssec.org for more information.

For those who are really interested, fire up a shell and go:


dig @a.root-servers.net DNSKEY . +multiline +noall +answer

Rijndael explained

May the 4th be with you.

Happy Star Wars day everyone!

Pretty Bad Privacy?



As you may have heard, Symantec Corp. bought PGP Corporation along with GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. in order to "extend its ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information".

Back

After having my static IP "stolen" by my ISP I have finally come around to change ISP and got the site back online.
I had a laugh checking the last posts, and even if they are just a couple of months ago, it is really really REALLY old news.

Vote Earth

Biometric passports are easily cracked

All EU countries have a shared passport standard, as decided back in 2003. In the newer passports there are a datachip (RFID*) where a picture of the owner is stored as a jpeg image. These passports are called "Biometric passports".

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