shesafish

	Saturday, September 28, 2002

This is a good concept to keep in mind for the web-based cis project for work:

Make your URLs human-guessable. Jesse James Garrett writes about how to make your URLs user-friendly in an article at AdaptivePath.com:

Systems that don't take this user behavior into account pull the rug out from under users who have come to rely on readable URLs.

[Radio Free Blogistan]

9:41:08 AM  comment [] |

 Key Length

The RSA claims that 1024-bit key size (about 300 decimal digits) is considered string enough for virtually all applications. So, if we do not want to rewrite that component of software for at least five years, are we in the clear?

RSA Labs RC5-64 bit secret key challenge solved. Distributed.net has successfully decrypted the RC5-64 bit encrypted message issued by RSA Security over 5 years ago.

[kuro5hin.org] via [Seb's Open Research]

12:18:56 AM  comment [] | Topics: Encryption 

 Ratings Geek, Ubiquitous Automator

The author of inessential.com has identified a sub-species of computer geek: the ratings geek.

"The common thread to ratings geeks is that they want the computer to observe their behavior, and sometimes the behavior of other people too, and move things around accordingly."

Ratings geeks sound like a type of AI geek. Both could be described as people who follow another Pragmattic Progammer edict: to strive for "ubiquitous automation".

12:07:00 AM  comment [] |