Wikileaks Cable Offers New Insights Into Oracle-Sun Deal | PCWorld Business Center

WikiLeaks Cable Offers New Insights into Oracle-Sun Deal (PC World) Nothing too new or shocking in there, but the cable does offer some interesting insights.

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html Jeff Moser on software development

On Password Strength

XKCD (as usual) makes a very good point – this time about password strength, and I reckon it’s something app developers need to consider urgently. Geeks can debate the exact amount of entropy, but that’s not really the issue: insisting on mixed upper/lower and/or non-alpha and/or numerical components to a user password does not really [...]