Archive for July, 2009
Java application as a MS Windows service
by ricardoz on Jul.29, 2009, under Tips
It’s really annoying to run something interactively on MS Windows when you know deep inside it should be an OS Service. Doing this on a *nix system is quite simple (most of the times you just need to write a short shell script), but on MS Windows it’s not so easy.
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Trying out Google Appengine – OTP generation app
by ricardoz on Jul.15, 2009, under Security, Web related
I decided to try out the new Java based version of Google Appengine. So i wrote a very simple web app that allows the user to generate one time passwords (OTP) using the HMAC-SHA1 algortihm (see OATH).
You can check it out at http://obovweb.appspot.com. As the name suggests its based on my obov library.
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