Category: Misc
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RC4/ARCFOUR Implementation in PHP
I wrote this RC4/ARCFOUR implementation in PHP – based on the original C source code posted on usenet in 1994. The rc4() call itself is completely self-contained, two other methods rc4_test() and rc4_benchmark() have been provided for testing and are optional. My motivation for writing it was to replace the dependency on MCrypt in my…
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Blogs are fundamentally flawed for the typical Grandma-User
It may seem a little sad but I can honestly say that reading my access_log is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV; they are filled with exotic foreigners, futuristic robots, drama, intrigue and personal tragedy. The best thing about it is that it’s all real; these are (mostly) real people who stumble…
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Horde 3.0.8 appears to be broken
Horde is an application framework used by a web-based email client IMP I use to read my email. From the Horde site [www.horde.org]: The Horde Project is about creating high quality Open Source applications, based on PHP and the Horde Framework. The guiding principles of the Horde Project are to create solid standards-based applications using…
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‘NASA Search 1.0’ ??? Something Google should worry about ???
Having written my own WordPress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ – I have started to notice more and more peculiar User-Agents visiting my blog. I quite like to keep an eye on what spiders / bots visit my sites, how often they return…