ApacheDS & Fortress QUICKSTART
As engineers, we are often encouraged to use the right tool for the job. Maybe that is because we tend to grow too attached to the...
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OpenLDAP & Fortress QUICKSTART
Fortress and OpenLDAP go together like peanut butter and jelly. Either is good, but taken together, their flavors blend into something...
Read articleDROWN Vulnerability with Remediation
(http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0800) Network traffic encrypted using an RSA-based SSL certificate may be...
Read articleWhy Bugs are Good
Goes against the grain of conventional wisdom. The nastier, the better. How can this be? Let me state the ways. Status. It...
Read articleAnticipating the Future With LMDB
As we’ve noted before, LMDB was designed to be a data storage solution for both today and especially for tomorrow, not to keep warming...
Read articleThe Sad State of C Strings
Character strings are an essential component of any programming language, but C Strings were a bit unusual in not defining an explicit...
Read articleLDAP is dead. Long Live LDAP!
David Goodman’s keynote, LDAP 2020 Paradise Lost or Regained?, provides a retrospective for us to contemplate. In it, he describes LDAP’s...
Read articleJavaOne Survival Guide
With next week being my 12th time at JavaOne, here’s some wisdom for those who’ve never been. Use the schedule builder. Many sessions...
Read articlePerformance Tradeoffs in LMDB
Yes, LMDB is fast, blindingly fast. Can we make it faster still? Yes. As you should be aware, LMDB uses mmap() to map an entire database...
Read articleApache Fortress SAML Demo
The aim of this tutorial is to connect Apache Directory Fortress with Spring Security SAML and a common Identity Provider – SSO...
Read articleWhat are Password Policies?
DEFINED A set of rules surrounding the content, quality and lifecycle of a password. WHAT ARE THEY FOR? Helps to safeguard the integrity...
Read articleWhat Are Temporal Constraints?
DEFINED Ability to control when an entity activation occurs based on time and date criteria. Temporal constraints are typically applied...
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