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Secure Private Key Storage for UNIX? 95

Posted by Cliff on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:51PM from the kernel-level-key-ring dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Microsoft Windows, from 2000 forward (except ME) offers secure certificate and private storage at the OS level in what is called a protected store. Offline, it's encrypted by a combination of the user's password and a session key stored on the filesystem. When the OS is running, the private keys stored are available to the logged in user, optionally encrypted with another password. The keys are stored in protected memory, so no applications can access them without going through the Microsoft CAPI calls. This code also is FIPS 140-1 level 1 (the best one can get for software cryptography modules) compliant." Does any other OS provide this kind of feature at the OS-level? If so, who? If not, why?

Submission + - Software for PDAs?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @06:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: Several times people have sought input on the best Open Source and Free Software for, say, the M$ Windows platform. However, I don't recall ever seeing one in reference to PDAs. Having just aquired my first Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA, I've been asking, with little success, in various communities for references and suggestions of good and must-have OSS, Free, freeware, public domain, and shareware programs. So far, I've set it up and have been surprised just how many M$ programs it wants to tie me into using and/or upgrading to sync with my XP system. It's a bit ridiculous; do I really need to upgrade to Windows Media 10 in order to sync a folder of media files? Do I really need to install and run Outlook (which I have NEVER used) in order to sync a contacts database? One would hope not. So, I appeal to the members here for input and suggestions for these mobile platforms.

Submission + - Suggestions for comment / collaboration software?

Submitted by

quixote9

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @06:01PM

quixote9 writes: "I'm looking for an online way that a group of people can comment on each others' manuscripts. Ideally, the software would be a php script that runs in any browser. I'd like it to show the original ms in one pane, say on the left, and the comments, if any, in a right side pane. Comment position in the right pane would be fixed relative to the paragraph it relates to in the original ms. Multiple comments about the same original point would appear on separate lines, as close to the correct position as feasible. Comments could be collapsed completely, show just the first line, or be expanded to full length temporarily. The original could be saved with all the added comments, if desired.

For my purposes, this would be a system for collaborative review, not for a top-down, boss-worker, teacher-student type of situation. There's no need for grading, for someone's comments to have priority, for some people to be unable to comment, and the like. Although if these things are there, it doesn't matter so long as they're optional.

Is there anything like this out there anywhere? Moodle courseware has a "workshop" module, but it's top-down, and the original and the comments aren't visible together. I see complicated php scripts on sourceforge, freshmeat & some php sites for "enterprise level workflow coordination" and simple ones to coordinate calendars. I don't even know how to search for what I'd like. No matter what terms I use, I wind up back in enterprise whiteboard chatspace.

If the reason I can't find it is because it doesn't exist, any suggestins for how a complete n00b should go about cobbling together a php script to do this?"

Submission + - Sourceforge closed CompileFarm. Now what?

Submitted by int32 on Thursday March 01, 2007 @05:44AM

int32 writes: Anyone used sourceforge's CompileFarm? Well I did a lot. As of now, I've just found that its single distinguishing feature was abandoned some weeks ago: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6 65363 . CompileFarm was the project where you could compile and test your application on a bunch of various architectures on different unices. Was really helpful for portability, especially for testing your code on both 32 and 64 bit platforms... well, no more. It sucks, but show must go on. Therefore, questions to the slashdot crowd: how do you test your C/C++ code for portability? Are there (free) alternatives to CompileFarm?

Submission + - BBC reported WTC-7 collapse 20 minutes early?

Submitted by on Thursday March 01, 2007 @04:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: "An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head." was the quote I saw on digg. The video discussed can be found at youtube. BBC responded with a article called "Part of the conspiracy?". I ask the Slashdot community: What do you think? Simply a "cock-up" as Richard Porter of BBC put it?

Submission + - NASA to Duct Tape Psychotic Astronauts

Submitted by Thib on Friday February 23, 2007 @05:43PM

Thib writes: After NASA astronaut Lisa Novak reportedly tried to kidnap and kill another woman in a much-publicized love triangle last month, NASA added five pages to a thousand-page document detailing all procedures for dealing with medical emergencies. Their guidelines: duct tape. From the CNN article: "The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say the astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary." The article features various tidbits from previous NASA and Russian missions and from previous stays in the International Space Station and in the Mir space station. NASA is also thinking of revising its policies on psychological screening.

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