Archive for May, 2007

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

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 [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

THIS ONLY WORKS FOR .NET 2.0, AND IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ANY .NET FRAMEWORK 1.x distributions
So, I am currently shifting jobs (I am going to be at Shaw AFB as opposed to Eglin doing a SharePoint project for CENTAF) and I had some time to investigate using biometrics with SharePoint. I don't have any fancy [...]

Posted by Adam Buenz

I am getting ready to move to a new AF base, from Eglin AFB where I worked for an acquisitions wing (the 328th Armament systems wing) to Shaw AFB for a similar project that I have been doing, but for USCENTAF (Central Command Air Forces). I am excited to be at Shaw for the period [...]