We Can Stop Looking For That Panacea Now
It seems every year there’s a new protocol for handling security. I was first sucked down into this black hole in the ’90’s. Few...
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Apache Fortress SAML Demo
OVERVIEW The aim of this tutorial is to connect Apache Fortress with Spring Security SAML and a common Identity Provider – SSO...
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The tutorial provides a how-to guide for applying end-to-end security enforcement across a sample Java Web environment using Java EE,...
Read articleApache Fortress Role Engineering Tutorial
The goals of this tutorial are to Gain understanding of the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) standard Learn the repeatable steps of the...
Read articleIntroducing a Security Access Control Engine Inside OpenLDAP
SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL ENGINE - HOW & WHY The OpenLDAP Accelerator is a Policy Decision Point that resides inside the slapd process....
Read articleUnderstanding LMDB Database File Sizes and Memory Utilization
INTRODUCTION The Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) is designed around the virtual memory facilities found in modern operating...
Read articleApacheDS & Fortress QUICKSTART
As engineers, we are often encouraged to use the right tool for the job. Maybe that is because we tend to grow too attached to the...
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Fortress and OpenLDAP go together like peanut butter and jelly. Either is good, but taken together, their flavors blend into something...
Read articleApache Fortress 1.0-RC42 Released
Announced just this week: Apache Fortress 1.0-RC42 released. What, is this some kind of joke? Why would a project go thru 42 iterations...
Read articleDROWN Vulnerability with Remediation
(http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0800) Network traffic encrypted using an RSA-based SSL certificate may be...
Read articleWhy Bugs are Good
Goes against the grain of conventional wisdom. The nastier, the better. How can this be? Let me state the ways. Status. It...
Read articleThe Sad State of C Strings
Character strings are an essential component of any programming language, but C Strings were a bit unusual in not defining an explicit...
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