Imagine taking a block of data and turning it into a unique string of characters. Like giving it a digital nickname that never changes (unless the data does!). That’s a hash. Whether the original data ...

package dustin.examples; import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder; /** * A simple representation of a Person intended only to demonstrate Apache * Commons ToStringBuilder. * * @author ...

I'm modifying an irssi script that allows you to queue up packs to download one at a time via DCC. The function below checks to make sure that the DCC request is being sent by the same nick as the one ...

Hashing refers to the process of using an algorithm to transform data of any size into a unique fixed sized output (e.g., combination of numbers). To put it in layman’s term, some piece of information ...

As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating system. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it used what are, by today’s standards, strange, even ridiculous security. For one, ...