mhogomchungu

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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
Its not. A user provided volume/device should always be mounted with "nosuid,nodev" options,some people will add "noexec" into the mix but i find it not to be very useful. Most "sane" mount front ends will
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
Reads the instructions again At step 4,you create the volume on the computer you have root access(a home computer for example),copy the program and set up necessary permission on the program At step 5,you take the "hot" volume to
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
TrueCrypt in linux has a serious security issue discussed below and i hope you guys will address this. TrueCrypt has a serious security bug that allows a person who can mount TrueCrypt volumes to get root shell or run any command as root us
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Task based programming in Qt/C++ using continuation and modern C++(github.com)
2 points by mhogomchungu 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
i hope you know that bitlocker is not available to all windows users[1]. These TrueCrypt developers seem to not be aware of this apparently and hence their reason for stopping development is flawed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
>Even single inheritance with multiple subclasses makes following the potential code paths mentally as many times harder as there are classes that extend or override the common base class. Composition over inheritance is a technique used
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
Dar Es Salaam. I noticed in your other comment you said you moved to Tanzania recently, how is your Swahili :-) Let see if you can derive meaning from the following swahili question. Kati ya nchi zote ulizokuwa na uwezo wa kuhamia,kwanini u
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
African programmer here from Tanzania and one of my FOSS project is zuluCrypt[1] [1] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
Somebody who has been following TrueCrypt closely seem to think the project lost momentum and they just decided to call it quit.Their comment is on slashdot and the link is: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5212985&amp
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
TrueCrypt encrypted volume format is well known and there are tools out there that can create TrueCrypt volumes and open them. There is tcplay[1]. This project can create and open TrueCrypt volumes. There is cryptsetup[2].This is a linux na
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by mhogomchungu 12y ago
How is code like below "easily auditable"? keydir = *++argv; if (!keydir) die_usage(); or if (*x == 'v') { if (flagverbose >= 2) flagverbose = 3; else flagverbose = 2; continue; } why put multiple statem
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
tomb is a front end to cryptsetup[3] and it uses LUKS as an encrypted volume format. LUKS is more secure than TrueCrypt encrypted format because it takes steps to make it harder to brute force the LUKS header. TrueCrypt for example uses fix
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ZuluCrypt, a TrueCrypt alternative solution for Linux(code.google.com)
1 points by mhogomchungu 13y ago|0 comments
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
Fundamentally,computer science = data structures + algorithms. in a data structure class,you learn the basic structures like PODs,structs,vectors and linked lists. in algorithm class,you learn various basic sorting algorithms plus the big O
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
I am an african from africa currently in the US giving my perspective.We have always had a house maid,we call them "house girls" and they are usually in the mid teens going up.Most families i knew had one too.Typically these are y
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
Some people are raising funds to review truecrypt code,meaning they will always be one step behind truecrypt and there are others who are working on truecrypt compatible implementations[1][2][3]. It is my opinion that some of this money wil
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
A list manager with a pointer to the last element on the list should also be able to append to the managed list in O(1)
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
Nobody rents a house and then go around using the word "own" and "buy" when describing their access to the house. There is a difference btw "buying" and "renting" and most people know the difference.R
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
I do not think they had this kind of usage in mind when they allowed it and i think the use case for it is in using a const reference to a function argument.Most people use this all the time without thinking about it or wondering what is th
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
I do something like this: char * buffer = ( char * )malloc( sizeof( char ) * 32 ) ; Why? because i like to look at my code written that way. If i code for somebody else's preference,i do it their way,if i code for my own consu
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
linux has "equivalent protected-storage APIs integrated throughout the desktop environment",KDE has kwallet[1],GNOME has libsecret[2] and lxqt has lxqt wallet[3].Firefox has an extension to store its passwords in KDE's kwalle
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
a bit of optimization in $src/libsass/copy_c_str.cpp char* copy_c_str(const char* orig) { size_t len = strlen(orig) + 1 ; char* copy = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char) * l
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
The simplest way to do OOP in C is to create modules with opaque handles. Below shows how i use string and string list "classes" in C.String list "class" inherits string "class" seamlessly. https://g
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
There is the truecrypt binary and truecrypt formatted encrypted volume.The format of the truecrypt volume is known and there exists open source solutions that can create and open truecrypt volumes. All it will take to have alternatives in w
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
There is nothing special about truecrypt formatted encrypted volume.The only thing interesting is the format of the header used to store information about the properties used to create the volume and necessary to open the it. cryptsetup is
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
In the FOSS world,there exists FOSS solutions that work with truecrypt formatted encrypted volumes. tcplay[1] is a BSD licensed CLI tool that can be used to create and open truecrtpt volumes. cryptsetup[2] is a GPL licensed CLI tool that ca
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by mhogomchungu 13y ago
As a copyright owner of source code,its important to know there are two kind of users of your code,"end users" and "distributors". Any person who get the restrictions of the GPL is,by definition,"a distributor" and GPL does not exist to pro