Category: General
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10MinuteMail.com hit digg.com’s front page last night
It’s filtered down a few pages off the front, but hey, front page of digg.com! Wow! Totally grassroots in about 4 hours. Now it’s on all kinds of little blogs and tech forums and other odd places. Over 100k hits in the last 18 hours. It performs very well. There’s very little cpu hit at…
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What’s up with SMTPS?
Let’s start with SMTP. Simple Mail Transport Protocol. This is how e-mail gets sent. This is how e-mail makes it from you, to your recipient. When you check your e-mail, you use POP or IMAP to get the e-mail from the server. But when you’re sending e-mail, you use SMTP. SMTP is how your mail…
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PGP E-mail Encryption conceptual issue
I have a number of thoughts in mind, which will likely turn into posts, and they are all leading up to a bigger unified thought. This is one of them. PGP / GPG email encryption is a good thing. It’s a pretty secure system, and the public registries of public keys makes it easy to…
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Tag URI
A friend of mine created a RFC for uniquely identifying an entity. The Tag URI scheme uses a tagging entity, to identify the tagger, this is usually a domain or e-mail address owned by the tagger. Then it uses a date to identify the unique owner of the tagging entity. It basically allows you to…
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FP!
I’ve started this blog for posts related to my expiriences with, and thoughts on, technology. I am a Java and security architect, focused on ATG Dynamo products, although with a strong personal interest in JBoss and their technologies. Hopefully some people will find this interesting. Devon