Aiming at Nothing

Allen’s ramblings, broken down… and left that way.

Archive for January, 2005

20 Jan

More crypto

I mentioned Ciphire, the encryption software for email a while back and lamented that the source code wasn’t public (for reasons of scrutiny). According to this hands-on review at Wired, the company will be releasing the source code sometime…
Ciphire Labs also intends to release the source code to Cipher Mail within the year, after the [...]

13 Jan

Crypto night

Somewhere in the mess that is my RSS aggregator I stumbled upon a press release for an email encryption program published by a German company called Ciphire. Apparently this software sits between your email program and the net and encrypts/decrypts your messages using your local private key and a web-stored public key. It’s free. It’s [...]

12 Jan

Nagging question

This has been bothering me since I was a kid. The Gilligan’s Island song says, “…if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost.” Now, it’s true that no one on the boat died (that we know of) but wasn’t the Minnow in fact LOST? It’s not as if anyone [...]

09 Jan

toboR, I

TT and I are usually well behind the times when it comes to seeing “blockbuster” films because, with a few exceptions, we avoid the cinema experience in favor of big-screen TV action in our family room. (I hate sex on the telly; we keep falling off!) So it should come as no surprise that we [...]

09 Jan

Not Win32 compatible

Occasionally I like to randomly browse other peoples’ blogs on blogspot. Even more occasionally I receive a JavaScript pop-up dialog window that says, “Sorry, your browser is not Win32 compatible.” Sorry? I’m not sorry about that. Not in the slightest, actually. I suppose I could have looked at the source to find out what exactly [...]

09 Jan

What do you get…

When you mix buffalo wings with some 200-year-old calamari?
Bison-tentacle.
(Hopefully I can go back to sleep now that I’ve written it down.)

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