http://qyv.net/jisblog Ramblings of a Security Technologist Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, so how does a credit card work? Well let's see. We have a number, which we need to keep secret. If a "bad guy" learns it, they can use it to charge against us... and otherwise impersonate us. However in order to use it we need to share it with ... http://qyv.net/jisblog/2008/04/16/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/ I am a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and have been from very close to "the beginning" having attended over 50 meetings of the group. In the 1990's the IETF developed what is now known as IPv6, the next generation of the Internet Protocol (the current generation ... http://qyv.net/jisblog/2007/10/27/internet-protocol-the-next-generation-again/ I have been involved in Internet Security for about 20 or so years. One of the holy grails that we have pursued is the global Internet Authentication system. In the 1980's we developed Kerberos at MIT. Kerberos was one of the first practical cryptographic based authentication systems on ... http://qyv.net/jisblog/2007/05/08/identity-on-the-internet/ OK. So this is my first “Journal” entry. Its interesting. I have always considered myself a techno type of person, but this trend of writing a journal on-line is a bit strange to me. But what the heck, here goes! So whom am I. Well I am a technologist, manager (at ... http://qyv.net/jisblog/2007/03/17/hello-world/