How to copy trusted root certificates to another machine
I have created a VM from an image with a very clamp down security setup. In particular, it had a very limited set of trusted root CAs. It would not […]
I have created a VM from an image with a very clamp down security setup. In particular, it had a very limited set of trusted root CAs. It would not […]
As part of creating self-signed certificate, we use the following code: var enroll = new CX509Enrollment(); enroll.InitializeFromRequest(cert); enroll.CertificateFriendlyName = friendlyName; string csr = enroll.CreateRequest(); // may fail with ACCESS DENIED […]
I have been working with Git for about a year now, and I think I am ready for some summary. Before Git, I used SVN, and before it Perforce, TFS, […]
I have just run into a problem: a test passes fine on the CI sever, but breaks on my machine. Reason: it gets a wrong config file. Root cause: when […]
The following code does not work as expected: $xml = simplexml_load_string(“<root><a/><b>text</b></root>”); $node = $xml->xpath(“/root/a”)[0]; if ($node) process($node); // process($node) may not be called for some valid nodes Unlike most other […]
I have discovered a bug in PHP 5.4.4: a simple XPATH does not work. $xml = simplexml_load_string(“<root><a/><b>text</b></root>”); $node = $xml->xpath(“/root/b”)[0]; // $node is null $node evaluates to FALSE This is […]
TL;DR: XML signatures are trouble, because they are ridiculously hard to implement right. XML signatures in PHP are double trouble, because of lack of decent libraries. .NET security libraries are […]
I did a clean install of Windows 10 on a brand new SSD. Good things: It was relatively straightforward and quick. It also rebooted seamlessly without requiring me to remove […]
I was sitting in a Dairy Queen this afternoon thinking about random stuff and suddenly this question hit me: who loads the library that implements LoadLibrary? Isn’t it some kind […]
CodeProject We have recently been fighting a weird problem in our .NET application that was caused by a duplicate WM_KEYDOWN message. It relatively is easy to figure out who receives […]