Posts by 'Jesse Kershaw' – Page 3

Riding the bleeding edge

It has been quite some time since I tried hacking around with Linux. Which also means it has been a long time of my HTPC working just fine.

The HTPC is an old Core 2 Duo in an Antec case running Ubuntu 13.10. I've tried XBMC and Myth ...

Having fun with Kanban

I've been Team Lead of a small development team for a few months now. The product and team were new to me at the start as well as the role. It took a while to feel confident in my ability to deliver a quality product and maintain a happy ...

Thoughts from a Code Maniac

While I'm still digesting the recent (and awesome) codemania conference I thought I'd share my notes taken during the talks.

Glenn Block

Open source at Microsoft

  • Microsoft is not necessarily 100% evil (imo it is probably still mostly evil)

Paul Fenwick

All your brains suck: Off topic talk ...

FuguPass Encryption Scheme

Last post I introduced the FuguPass password encryption script. In this post I'm going to go over the encryption scheme used which is based on RSA Laboratories PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Standard.

Derived Key

The bulk of my implementation focused on deriving a key to use for the existing ...