Daniel J. Bernstein - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Daniel J. Bernstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Daniel J. Bernstein - Software Security
In the autumn of 2004, Bernstein began teaching one of the first formal university-level courses about computer software security, titled...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daemon Tools: Encyclopedia - Daemon Tools
DAEMON Tools is a proprietary disk image emulator for CD/DVD-ROMs able to mount CD images in virtual drives. The program is able to emul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cryptographers: Encyclopedia - List Of Cryptographers
Cryptography List of cryptographers - Pre-computer. Charles Babbage, UK, 19th century mathematician who, about the time of the Crimean...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Djbdns: Encyclopedia Ii - Djbdns - The Components Of Djbdns
djbdns comprises: six servers: dnscache -- the local dns resolver and cache. tinydns -- a database-driven dns server. walldns -- a "rev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daemon Tools: Encyclopedia Ii - Daemon Tools - Uses
Like other disk image emulators, using DAEMON Tools means a user does not have to swap discs to run different programs, which also reduce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Security
OpenBSD is well-known for its security focus and track record. Until June 2002, the OpenBSD website featured the slogan: "No remote hole...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dnsbl: Encyclopedia Ii - Dnsbl - Dnsbl Operation
To operate a DNSBL requires three things: a domain to host it under, a nameserver for that domain, and a list of addresses to publish. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - License-free Software: Encyclopedia Ii - License-free Software - Examples Of Licence-free Software
The most well-known examples of licence-free software are various packages written by Daniel J. Bernstein (although other authors, such a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns In Practice
When an application (such as a web browser) tries to find the IP address of a domain name, it doesn't necessarily follow all of the steps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qmail: Encyclopedia Ii - Qmail - Controversy
There is some controversy among mail system operators over whether qmail is as standards-compliant as its author claims. Critics allege a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mbox: Encyclopedia Ii - Mbox - Family
The mbox family comprises four main different and incompatible formats, mboxo, mboxrd, mboxcl, and mboxcl2. The naming scheme was develop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship In The United States - Broadcast Media Censorship
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates "indecent" free-to-air broadcasting. It can issue fines if, for example, the broadc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship In The United States - Pornography
The courts have ruled that the First Amendment protects "indecent" pornography from regulation, but not "obscene" pornography. Enforcemen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship In The United States - Cryptography Software
The export of cryptography software is regulated as a munition under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, although in recent ye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dnsbl: Encyclopedia Ii - Dnsbl - History Of Dnsbls
The first DNSBL was the Real-time Blackhole List (RBL), created in 1997 by Paul Vixie as part of his Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns Software
Various flavors of DNS software implement the DNS, including: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) – full featured, most popular, de f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - A Brief History Of The Dns
The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a machine's numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mbox: Encyclopedia Ii - Mbox - File Format
mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - License-free Software: Encyclopedia Ii - License-free Software - What Users Can Do With Licence-free Software
On his page about software users' rights Bernstein explains his belief that under the terms of copyright law itself, software users are a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship In The United States - War Reporting And National Security
The government heavily censored reporting during World War II, but since that time war censorship has been relatively light. One controve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dnsbl: Encyclopedia Ii - Dnsbl - Terminology
The proprietary term RBL is sometimes erroneously used in place of the generic DNSBL. RBL is a service mark of MAPS LLC. Some pieces of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - How The Dns Works In Theory
Domain Name System - Actors. The domain name space is a tree of domain names. Each node or leaf in the tree is associated with resource...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Legal Users Of Domains
Domain Name System - Registrant. No one in the world really "owns" a domain name except the Network Information Centre (NIC), or domain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Politics
Many investigators have voiced criticism of the methods used currently to control ownership of domains. Most commonly, critics claim abus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns Software
Various flavors of DNS software implement the DNS, including: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) – full featured, most popular, de f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Internationalized Domain Names
Main article: Internationalized domain name Domain names must use only a subset of ASCII characters—the Roman alphabet in upper and low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Types Of Dns Records
Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following: An A record or address record maps a hostname to a 32-bit IPv4 add...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - History
In December 1994, Theo de Raadt, a co-founder and member of the NetBSD core team for two years, was asked to resign his position, and his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Releases
OpenBSD issues new versions every six months, each of which is supported for one year after release. During this time, stable CVS trees f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Distribution And Marketing
OpenBSD is available freely in various ways: the source can be retrieved by anonymous CVS or CVSup and binary releases and development sn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Hackathons
On June 4, 1999, OpenBSD began the annual hackathon tradition, during which many of the developers come together for a period that usuall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Licensing
OpenBSD contains components under a variety of different licences. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) licence, a simplified version of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Ports And Packages
As with several other operating systems, OpenBSD uses ports and packages systems to allow for easy installation and management of program...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Openbsd: Encyclopedia Ii - Openbsd - Uses
OpenBSD's stances on code correctness and licensing, its security enhancements and the pf firewall suit it for use in the security indust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censorship In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Censorship In The United States - Restrictions On Political Campaigns
Political campaigning is regulated, and the regulations have become more restrictive over time (see campaign finance reform). For example...   » Read the article