So, I am making available to the public the Redirector SharePoint WebPart that I wrote for a buddy who works at a fairly large financial firm (read this post for the complete story on that mess), it’s not very fancy, and the functionality that it introduces into a SharePoint is relatively [...]

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I am working on benchmarking some of the CryptoCollaboration encryption algorithms in order to optimize performance in relation to the threading that is required. It is pretty tough in order to balance out what is optimal, but it is coming along pretty nicely.Because this is solely a proof of concept, it shouldn’t [...]

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Well, so we have been talking about biometrics for a while, and eventually the concept of biometric encryption (fuzzy commitment schemes, secure sketching, biometric key binding, bioHashing, biometric signatures, etc. [it goes by many names]) was going to come up. To be honest the subject is actually relatively fascinating. I have [...]

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I was talking to Stacy Draper (a MOSS MVP, his blog is here) and we were discussing the BioPoint SDK (I just released it a like two days ago), and Stacy seemed bent on proving to me that biometrics can be circumvented. He had some wild ideas, but I think that he was just trying [...]

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A while ago I posted a generic exception handler class that you can integrate into your project to do tracing and creating an event source for your WebParts. Although this is a good start to exception handling, it doesn't provide standards. Standards (which I provide a more robust definition for when you look at [...]

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