Archive for the 'personal' Category

CRLF, PHP, Postfix, and SPAM

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Recently we switched our production machines from running sendmail to postfix. In this process our emails started getting caught as SPAM and it took a bit of digging to figure out what exactly was happening. The error we got was:
BAD_HEADER: Improper use of control character (char 0D hex)
If you look up 0D hex […]

SCAR - Scatter, Conceal, and Recover

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

After several painful months of writing my masters thesis it is finally done. I feel really good about the work, I believe its original and could have some commercial application.
I have learned that I’m not good at writing (I kinda knew that already). As a result I’m going to focus my energy on […]

OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall

Monday, December 11th, 2006

OPTWALL which is a paper written by me, Subrata Acharya, Mehmud Abliz, and our adviser Taieb Znati is off to the printers. It was accepted for publication at the 14th annual Network and Distributed Security Symposium. The work was based upon the basic idea that to improve firewall performance the rule-sets should be […]

Music for a Rainy Night

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

One stormy night (tonight) a young man (me) was eagerly seeking new music (John Mayer), as I previewed the music in iTunes I thought how easy it would be to drop $9.99 for a couple of mp3’s. I began debating my boycott of iTunes but quickly got upset because I couldn’t listen to my music […]

Mark Graduation off the list

Friday, May 12th, 2006

The best thing about life is crossing goals off the list and moving onto something new and exciting. This weekend my brother was able to use a gigantic Sharpie and mark ‘graduate from college’ off his list. He now holds a Bachelors of Arts from Bethany College and we haven’t been able to pry it […]