Rich’s Collection of Geekery

I was reading this post on Slashdot about TiVO’s recently filed patent application on a “password you can’t hack“. I was just thinking… isn’t this basically a zero knowledge proof?
“Eventually, systems were devised that require the host to prove that it knows the password without actually revealing the password, thus allowing the host to […]

So far, I have really been interested in what rdiff-backup can do. Now I just have to set it up! I’ve got rdiff-backup working on my laptop and desktop at work, so now I need to connect my first client — a Solaris 9 system. I want to see how permissions are […]