Padding Oracle Story Time

I learned a lot doing Hacker101 CTFs. Writing a Padding Oracle attack in Perl, Go, and Javascript

Visualizing the Padding Oracle Attack

A visualization of the Padding Oracle attack

Since I left Etsy

Here’s what I’ve been up to since I left Etsy on August 2nd. This post is a work-in-progress that I’m updating along the way. I’m taking some time to relax and reset and enjoy myself! Drinking a lot of Pu’er Tea Pu’er tea is a fermented Chinese tea. I still drink coffee too. I got […]

A GIF Story of the Performance Yule Log

On Christmas I tweeted out a GIF that took a couple days to make: the performance yule log. It combines perf and logstash.

Picking a Cloud-like Dedicated Hosting Provider

The future is here for dedicated hosting! The landscape today looks a lot more like the cloud — APIs, fast provisioning, and no commitments. It is awesome. In this post I explore the new age of dedicated hosting and describe my thought process for picking a provider. My wish list of features grows over the […]