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All your Sudoku puzzles are belong to us

Today I’ve found Sudokuza while revising my archives. This is a program that solves Sudoku puzzles. I sketched it more than a year ago for fun to avoid Sudoku mania. :) My main goal was to create a program which would solve a puzzle the similar way as a human would do, without hardcore math. […]

Undocumented Windows cryptography

The last time we described semi- and undocumented functions in Windows, these were compression functions. Today’s subject is cryptographic functions. There are such functions in Windows core that allows you to use few cryptographic primitives easier, without whole CAPI overhead and hassle. Here is an example of how to generate secure random numbers and calculate […]

The Schneier’s Code

I’ve found this photo from the friend’s links. It is an autograph that was given by Bruce Schneier at Hack In The Box’2006 conference. As you can see it is enciphered. I know neither the encryption key nor any details about the cipher, but being as mighty as both Bruce and Chuck altogether, I can […]

Random numbers at Foxtrot

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ZDNet: Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad

Pop-quiz: What new service is missing in this review? Right, it is Spynote! Well, yeah, it was not featured at the Web 2.0 Summit but anyway how could anyone miss such a great service?! Have you? :)