Stripe CTF 3 finished a few days ago. The latest CTF focussed on distributed systems, instead of security. I have read about distributed systems but getting to develop one was a good learning experience. Unfortunately, it took me a while to solve the last level, and after the capturing the flag I didn’t have time to go back and optimize my code for the other levels. I will walk through my solutions here. Read More...
KDE 4.12 comes with a KWallet GnuPG backend, which is more secure. More info here, including how to move existing wallets.
(Note: Tom Leek has written a more detailed analysis on StackExchange.)
I started using KWallet a few months ago to stop reusing same passwords on multiple sites. Using KDE Wallet plugin for Firefox, I setup my passwords to be automatically stored in a KWallet file, which was the best solution I found for Firefox on Linux (other than Lastpass, but it stores passwords remotely and is closed source, which I don’t prefer when dealing with passwords). Read More...