Flarston Marston - Slashdot User

Comment Hardly news (Score 1) 93

by Flarston Marston on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @05:34AM (#38071474) Attached to: W3C Proposes Unified "Do Not Track" Privacy Standard

DNT has been around for ages

Comment QKD is one solution (Score 1) 262

by Flarston Marston on Friday November 11, 2011 @05:03AM (#38020974) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange?

If you're asking about key exchange specifically, then there's quantum key distribution, which is equivalent to a one-time-pad. It relies on an initial shared secret, but once the key has been exchanged, it can be proven whether it's been eavesdropped, so this is not as much of a problem as it sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography#Quantum_key_distribution

Comment Pics (Score 1) 314

by Flarston Marston on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:55AM (#37438580) Attached to: I tend to keep random notes most often ...

If I'm forced to use paper, I just take a pic with my smartphone. Otherwise text files or wikis.

Comment Re:I'd be excited about this... (Score 1) 154

by Flarston Marston on Friday September 16, 2011 @09:34AM (#37419358) Attached to: The Google+ API Is Released

You're thinking about bolting from google apps because their google+ is taking a while longer than they promised? I assume there's a reason that signing up for a regular gmail account and using google plus in the meantime isn't acceptable?

Yeah - you'd have to start from square 1 again when the apps version comes out. Also this solution doesn't work on my smartphone - I'd have to have that account installed on my android phone too and have it grab all my email etc... too.

Submission + - App-store security - a manifesto (europa.eu)

Submitted by Flarston Marston on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @08:11AM

Flarston Marston writes: A threat assessment of the app-store software distribution model. This paper shows various ways to get malware onto a smartphone via an appstore and then proposes an app-store security manifesto with five lines of defence — basically some ideas on how to optimise review, reputation, revocation, on-device enforcement and jails in appstores. Presumably they are hoping to get some kind of shared security standards going between Google and Apple — good luck with that...

Comment I love the story at the beginning of his talk (Score 1) 189

by Flarston Marston on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:17PM (#37355480) Attached to: Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem

He goes into a restaurant with 2 friends. One of the has gone back to the car 'cos he forgot something. They witness a person with their birthday having the wierdest restaurant birthday ritual ever (having cream plastered all over their face while they are closing their eyes waiting for a surprise). They tell the restaurant that it is the birthday of the friend who went back to the car.

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