Perusing Scientific American, February 2002. Yes, I admit I’m a bit behind with my reading… But I do not suspect the information is invalid due to the passage of a few years. Before the neo-con equivalent of the mutawa have all back issues burned and all references made illegal it is worth recording what is [...]
MD5 Encryption?
It’s been a while since I wrote the first part of this MD5 article . Here in Part 2 I’m not (yet) going to cover the subject of hash collisions… That will follow in another future part.
Just now I want to deal with the pervasive, but wrong, belief that MD5 (or any of [...]
Here’s how to do it.
I had a Ubuntu box running 6.06 (Dapper) and a vanilla install of Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL5. I wanted to dabble in Ruby on Rails using the same box, but not affect the “production” side of it.
Despite the normally trivially easy install of software on Ubuntu I banged my head against [...]