Ken's techy links
Finally the main links page got even bigger so I moved the computer stuff over here.
NB for reasons described on on main page I don't usually delete old links from here. So loads of these are deliberatly out of date. Some now by ten years or so (in 2007). They tend to get older as they go down. I purposefully do not delete old links because I want to see what it looks like in fifty years time. If you want to find a web page use Google :-)
Sections
Whistle while you work,
Operating systems, systems admin,
Programming & software tools,
Internet,
email and email security and spam,
Computer security and cryptography,
other stuff about software and computers.,
Other links
Useful stuff,
main links page,
Biology and so on,
Work
(OK, come clean, by work you mean computers don't you?)
- useful links
- Some locally available web pages
Names, directories, federated AAA
- UK Federation
- Shibboleth, related projects, other academic AAA and id stuff
- Shibboleth background
- Installing and configuring Shib
- The Identity Project (tIdP)
- Other stuff
- Identity management, plastic cards, biowhatsits, digital jackboots trampling on the face of liberty, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
- LDAP
- DNS, DHCP and so on
- BIND9.net is the horses mouth for links to BIND, DNS, DHCP, & LDAP documentation;
- BIND 9 viewsi s sample chapter from the Cricket Liu DNS book, and
- DNS resources has (or had) some links.
- Internet names and numbers
- RIPE's explanation of how to look things up on NICs
-
- ISC Internet Domain Survey
- Internet regional & local registries for looking up 1st-level IP address ranges such as:
APNIC (Asia and Pacific),
ARIN (America - i.e. includes some of Africa but not all the US!),
RIPE (Europe & lots of little bits),
- and...
nominet (UK),
thk (Finland),
mynic (Malaysia),
nic.us (US country codes),
aunic (Oz),
- There are large listings of local & specialist registries at
internic and
forumnett and
norid
and of course
IANA including the
IPv4 address space
- Some are also whois servers for DNS names such as:
www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/whois ,
www.nic.uk/whois.html ,
whois.denic.de ,
www.internic.net ,
rs.internic.net ,
www.nic.uk/whois.html ,
www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/ ,
nic.ddn.mil
NB some of these are web pages others aren't - some are current, others aren't.
- bits and pieces
Various kinds of Googollocks
OS and admin
Programming & Tools
- Perl
- Rexx
- webpages
- others
Internet & Web stuff
- search engines and the like
- HTML
- Stuff about cascading style sheets:
- Plumbing
- Froth (or rather some comments on what was state of the art webbery back in 1996)
- Tools
- NMAP
- HTMLtidy
- XML software
- Bookmartlets
- An Atlas of Cyberspaces
- Internet Weather Report
- Domain surfer
- Arachnophilia Careware with style
- Webcompare
- Apache FAQ
- Netcraft (The one that tells you who runs what)
- IIS FAQ This is incredibly
slow and irritiating - the FAQ is broken up into about 20 parts and each only has
questions and you have to select them to see the answers and
you don't know if will be a full answer or just a one-liner.
There was a slightly out of date complete document on another site
(somewhere off genusa.com?) but I can't find it right now. And when I could
it wouldn't print - it bombed out about 1/4 of the way in and not
every line was printed, or even displayed. There were little bits
of html popping up in the text. I bet the prats used MS software to write their pages.
- Venus Internet (this links to a
page of links to search engines).
- This Page Intentionally Left Crap
- Creating Killer Web Sites
Some web sites held up for our approval, together with lots of
pointers to useful tools and hints. Heavily based on
David Siegel's stuff. The only problem is that I can't read it all on
my PC. Maybe I'm getting old. And it took a long time to load during which
there was just one tiny logo on my screen. Naff.
Email
Security
and reliability, secrecy,
privacy, cryptography, auditability,
and other good things ending in " y "
- some general security resources, blogs, guru types & links pages
- Firewalls, traffic analysis, sniffing, intrusion detection.
- OS & host computer security & advisories
- Web security
- Net & crypto politics, freedom of speech, that sort of stuff
- Cryptome
- lightbluetouchpaper.orgRoss Anderson's blog (amd others nowadays)
- Smartcards FIPR say multifunction cards ungood
- ORGzine Wendy G et al.
- GILC
Results of EPIC survey of international crypto policies.
- Psychology and Security Resource Page Loadsa links
- Tim May's Cyphernomicon is
here
(cut into irritatingly tiny bits of html)
and here
and just maybe here
- And also his
Crypto-anarchy
rant from way back, and others from
Eric Hughes ,
Chuck Hammill , and
Tim again (on Libertaria).
Mail archive has links to
many cypherpunks threads like this one on
reputation (but google).
- e-voting and Internet security, Avi Rubin
- UKcrypto list
- RIP
- fipr List of stuff.
- Cipher newsletter
from IEEE in US, which is archived
here
- DTI responses
Ian Brown's collection of responses to the DTI proposals - and his
UK Crypto list archive
- GILC
Results of EPIC survey of international crypto policies.
- Lists of clever people abound at FIRST and
there are heaps of background documents at places like
JANET and
somewhere else (FIRST?)
-
Chablis at Medoc (actually a study of digital payment systems)
- Crypto.com
comment on US encryption policy from a deregulatory point of view.
They seem to be proud of having been appointed Conservative Web Site of the Day
some time in 1996. Which is odd, because in Europe their position
on cryptography would
probably be regarded as left wing. Oh well.
I often find that right-wing North Americans talk some political good sense,
as long as you avoid any mention of guns, abortion, race, evolution, attention deficit
disorder, crime or genetics. (Not to mention welfare, health, education,
policing, prisons... maybe from their point of view these are race issues.)
Anyway, it is mostly Matt Blaze's personal opinions hasn't been updated in a while -
same goes for Adam Back who has moved
here .
(has, or had, the export a crypto-system FAQ and lots of links to qood stuff.)
- CDT has it now?
- Raph Levien at c2
- TIS survey of crypto availability.
- Cyber-Liberties UK
- QMC's account of UK TTP proposals
- Robert Hettinga with his ranting hat on and
also trying to look like a
businessman
- ssz One of many routes into the cypherpunks universe
(or what is left of it)
- crypto-plumbing
Other stuff
- other stuff about dingos
- Legal implications
- OTT
- The murder of penet, the Scientology case and other notorious abuses.
Last update:
More shib and LDAP links (July 2008) ,
Reorder some html and Perl and so on ,
November 2006 new section for the identity management project ,
April 2006 linked to CCS links pages, cleaned up with HTML Tidy ,
March 2006 (some more up-to-date CSS links) ,
24th February 2005 (a few local links) ,
8th April 2005 (fixed top links) ,
May 2005 add some Shibbolinks ,
October 2005 techy networking bumf. SQL stuff? BBK registration links