Tag Archives: security

XKCD on Cryptography, Alice, Bob and Eve the Eavesdropper

We already got a great UNIX, and programming jokes from XKCD, but the new one is about cryptography (funny because I’ve been reading a lot about Cryptography the last 2 weeks).
In case you don’t know, in Cryptography, Alice and Bob are commonly used instead of A and B, as in “Alice delivers a message to [...]

Aureal Systems - A New Hope

It has been more than two months since I blogged for the last time. There has been a lot of things going on. The big thing is that now I am working full time in my own business: Aureal Systems, a consulting company in Peru. I’m working here with Breno, Benji, Fernando, Nestor and Nicolas [...]

Debian Security and some comparisons

Debian is having serious problems with its core security infraestructure. The main issue being that there is just one (overworked) Martin “Joey” Schulze in charge of the security updates, and the rest of the security team is, well, busy. It is even said that one of the security team members is working in Ubuntu, which [...]