Category Archives: Security

Snappy Interfaces

Posted on 2016/04/22 by niemeyer

As much anticipated, this week Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was released with integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. Snappy 2.0 is a modern software platform, that includes the ability to define rich interfaces between snaps that control their security and … Continue reading →

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Snappy Changes

Posted on 2016/04/20 by niemeyer

As announced last Saturday, Snappy Ubuntu Core 2.0 has just been tagged and made its way into the archives of Ubuntu 16.04, which is due for the final release in the next days. So this is a nice time to … Continue reading →

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Reference strepr implementation

Posted on 2013/07/03 by niemeyer

In an effort to polish the recently released draft of the strepr v1 specification, I’ve spent the last couple of days in a Go reference implementation. The implemented algorithm is relatively simple, efficient, and consumes a conservative amount of memory. … Continue reading →

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strepr v1 (draft2)

Posted on 2013/06/25 by niemeyer

Note: This is a candidate version of the specification. This note will be removed once v1 is closed, and any changes will be described at the end. Please get in touch if you’re implementing it. Contents Introduction Supported values Representation … Continue reading →

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jsonpeer puts the P in JSONP

Posted on 2013/05/28 by niemeyer

Today ubuntufinder.com was updated with the latest image data for Ubuntu 13.04 and all the previous releases as well. Rather than simply hardcoding the values again, though, the JavaScript code was changed so that it imports the new JSON-based feeds … Continue reading →

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Breaking into an Android password manager – Practice

Posted on 2009/12/05 by niemeyer

In the last post, we’ve seen some security issues which exist in the Android password manager gbaSafe version 1.1.0a, by analyzing the security description provided in its web site. As described there, even though the system depends on a “master … Continue reading →

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Breaking into an Android password manager – Theory

Posted on 2009/12/01 by niemeyer

For some time now I’ve been wanting to research more deeply about the internals of Android. Until now, though, this was just a sentiment. Then, a couple of weeks ago I’ve finally managed to replace my iPhone for an Android … Continue reading →

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