JWRD « Fixpoint

2024-06-21

Blockchain kindergarten: why proof of work?

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Networks, Paidagogia, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 02:24

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2024-03-22

Dropping BDB locking, bitcoind finally follows the Bitcoin protocol

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Networks, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:30

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2024-03-20

Auditing bitcoind for concurrent database objects: the call graph from hell

Filed under: Bitcoin, Data, JWRD, Networks, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 20:49

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2024-03-17

On the fact that bitcoind fails to implement the Bitcoin protocol

Filed under: Bitcoin, Data, Historia, JWRD, Networks, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 18:24

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2024-01-29

Spreading entropy with rngnet, a first software edition

Filed under: Hardware, JWRD, Networks, News, Philosophia, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:21

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2023-06-26

JWRD Dovecot initial release, aka version 2.4.0

Filed under: Email, Gales Linux, JWRD, News, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 04:39

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2023-05-13

Grand reopening of #jwrd, the IRC channel

Filed under: JWRD, Networks, News — Jacob Welsh @ 00:31

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2023-04-06

The Dovecot reports: how we came to forking a major email server

Filed under: Email, Historia, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 23:58

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2023-02-28

Getting started with the JWRD key management hardware kit

Filed under: Gales Linux, Hardware, JWRD, Networks, Paidagogia, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 07:37

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2023-01-24

yrc 95K release with patch pile

Filed under: JWRD, Networks, News, Software, yrc — Jacob Welsh @ 20:58

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2022-12-12

JWRD-RNG working spec

Filed under: Hardware, JWRD — Jacob Welsh @ 06:16

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2022-11-25

A quick survey of filthy character sets from my mail archives

Filed under: Data, Email, Gales Linux, Historia, JWRD, Networks, Politikos, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 23:33

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2022-10-26

Classifying the Dovecot module menagerie by load point

Filed under: Email, Gales Linux, JWRD, MySQL, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 23:55

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2022-10-22

Sounding the swamps of Internet mail access

Filed under: Email, Gales Linux, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 21:46

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2022-10-20

BusyBox microcom, the code review

Filed under: Gales Linux, Hardware, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:49

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2022-09-24

Hardware production background

Filed under: Hardware, JWRD — Jacob Welsh @ 21:48

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2022-06-23

Freeing Windows files with FreeFileSync

Filed under: JWRD, Networks, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 00:53

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2022-06-17

Fixpoint Security Advisory: FreeFileSync misses host key check, allowing breach of data confidentiality or authenticity

Filed under: JWRD, Networks, News, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 22:00

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2022-06-13

Fixed-width bit-fiddling tuneups for gbw-signer

Filed under: Bitcoin, Hash functions, JWRD, Scheme, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 02:02

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2022-05-21

Sending buffer overflows fixed in bitcoind, and other cleanups

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Networks, News, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 22:33

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2022-05-05

Two patches and a new fetch-bitcoind release

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 21:39

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The passive threads that would like to be given some blocks

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Software, Tempus fugit — Jacob Welsh @ 18:29

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2022-04-25

PHP pains

Filed under: JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 21:00

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2022-04-01

Spec for a usable IP tunneling system

Filed under: JWRD, Networks, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 23:45

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2022-03-22

Mapping the bitcoind block acceptance code, with bonus patch for index access

Filed under: Bitcoin, Hardware, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 04:08

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2022-02-04

The simplest way yet to fetch Bitcoin code

Filed under: Bitcoin, Historia, JWRD, Philosophia, Software, V — Jacob Welsh @ 00:07

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2021-12-07

Crashproofing bitcoind, the easy and the not-so-easy

Filed under: Bitcoin, Hardware, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 06:45

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2021-12-03

Gales Bitcoin Wallet (re)release

Filed under: Bitcoin, Historia, JWRD, News, Scheme, Software, Tempus fugit — Jacob Welsh @ 08:52

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2021-11-13

A tetrad of tuneups for bitcoind

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 15:54

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2021-11-07

MySQL in Gales 3: debug, rebug

Filed under: Gales Linux, JWRD, MySQL, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 08:38

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2021-11-06

MySQL in Gales 2: bundles of joy

Filed under: Gales Linux, JWRD, MySQL, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:21

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2021-10-31

Muzzling MySQL into Gales shape, part 1: groundwork

Filed under: Gales Linux, JWRD, MySQL, News, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:10

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2021-06-20

Alert: dumpblock flaw in bitcoind can cause gbw-node to incorrectly report transactions

Filed under: Bitcoin, JWRD, News, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 05:21

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2021-06-16

#jwrd going on hiatus

Filed under: JWRD, News — Jacob Welsh @ 04:48

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2021-05-23

Of coffee and code

Filed under: Historia, JWRD, Software, V, Vita — Jacob Welsh @ 11:13

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2020-09-29

Gales Scheme

Filed under: Historia, JWRD, Scheme, Software — Jacob Welsh @ 22:26

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