Hackercup 2014 - Qualifier

I had some fun doing it last year so I thought I would have a go again. This weekend was the qualifier. You can see the questions here Square Detector You want to write an image detection system that is able to recognise different geometric shapes. »

Heml.is Snakeoil

I have been meaning for a while to post about using public key crypto to secure cloud backups on services you can’t trust (ie all of them) but the recent launch of Heml.is made me get nerd-rage the other day and I just have to say something. To quote »

Securing cloud backups with EncFS

Assuming you are on Debian/Ubuntu, install encfs # apt-get install encfs Simply run encfs ~/PATH/TO/ENCRYPTED_FOLDER ~/PATH/TO/FOLDER to create an encrypted version of a folder $ encfs ~/ENCFS/ENC/ ~/ENCFS/CLEAR/ Creating new encrypted volume. »