Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
The pwgen program generates passwords which are designed to be easily memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible. Human-memorable passwords are never going to be as secure as completely completely random passwords. In particular, passwords generated by pwgen without the -s option should not be used in places where the password could be [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
FTP is an old protocol and there has been many variations of it’s implementations over the years. These servers listed below vary in many details and far from a complete list of Linux FTP servers out there. But these are few of the most popular Linux FTP servers out there:
ProFTPd This server, http://proftpd.org, is one [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
While talking to my friend stan I was quite surprised to see his non-tech ways of hiding p0rn from his girlfriend in his windows box. Which he thinks is a genius method. What he basically does is make a bunch of folders with different, confusing, not-so-interesting names and hide his stash deep deep inside the [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Automatic Password Generator application (APG)
The default behavior of APG is to prompt for random data from standard input and upon pressing enter, display six strong “pronounceable” passwords. They are referred to as “pronounceable” because the passwords may actually be pronounced like regular words. In fact, APG includes the pronunciation in parentheses () to the right [...]
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