Archive for the 'personal' Category

Wellspring Aquires Flintbox

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

I know I never post over here but it seemed appropriate to post actual news.  My company (Wellspring Worldwide) has just acquired Flintbox Innovation Network, an online intellectual property exchange.  This a great compliment to our core mission which is to help bring research to the marketplace.  Enough of the blog world, back to the […]

CRLF, PHP, Postfix, and SPAM

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Recently we switched our production machines from running sendmail to postfix. In this process our emails started getting caught as SPAM and it took a bit of digging to figure out what exactly was happening. The error we got was:
BAD_HEADER: Improper use of control character (char 0D hex)
If you look up 0D hex […]

SCAR - Scatter, Conceal, and Recover

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

After several painful months of writing my masters thesis it is finally done. I feel really good about the work, I believe its original and could have some commercial application.
I have learned that I’m not good at writing (I kinda knew that already). As a result I’m going to focus my energy on […]

OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall

Monday, December 11th, 2006

OPTWALL which is a paper written by me, Subrata Acharya, Mehmud Abliz, and our adviser Taieb Znati is off to the printers. It was accepted for publication at the 14th annual Network and Distributed Security Symposium. The work was based upon the basic idea that to improve firewall performance the rule-sets should be […]

Music for a Rainy Night

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

One stormy night (tonight) a young man (me) was eagerly seeking new music (John Mayer), as I previewed the music in iTunes I thought how easy it would be to drop $9.99 for a couple of mp3’s. I began debating my boycott of iTunes but quickly got upset because I couldn’t listen to my music […]