Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/27
Some links on NTLM authentication in .NET that I’m sure that I will going to need sooner or later:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/26
Might need this one day:
I wrote a utility to decode the NTLM blobs that were sent in the IE and HttpWebRequest sessions.When I look at the HttpWebRequest and IE, they both request 56bit and 128bit encryption from the server.
…
In both IE/HttpWebRequest, they are requesting both 64 & 128bit security. However, for windows 7, 128bit security for NTLM has been made the default, and without that, authentication will fail. As you can see from the server response, the server is only supporting 64bit encryption.
–jeroen
via: c# – 407 Authentication required – no challenge sent – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/26
I’m fighting some NTLM issues with a proxy server and this might come in handy one day: Connect to TFS 2013 Git Repository with LibGit2Sharp « Gáspár Nagy on software.
https://github.com/gasparnagy/Sample_NtlmGitTest/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/22
openssl s_client -connect localhost:443
I don’t have a Linux machine here, but this might work too:
gnutls www.somesite
And note that when using telnet, the hostnames must match:
$ openssl s_client -connect XXX.XX.XX.XXX:443
... connection information will be displayed …
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: XXX.XX.XX.XXXor
$ openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443
... connection information will be displayed …
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: www.example.comDon’t MIX
Now I need to research how it works with a proxy… simulate a “connect http/1.1 443” proxy – Google Search.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/22
I love it that in Windows you can do everything both by mouse and keyboard.
Take the start screen: there are 3 ways (mouse only, mouse + keyboard, keyboard only) to zoom in/out in the start screen. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/18
Running DropBox on a roaming profile is a pain, especially when DropBox auto-starts.
Limitation: you can now use it on only 1 PC in the roaming profile domain at a time (I’ve not yet tried Open Source Software and Windows 32-bit: Multiple Dropbox (Do It Yourself).)
The reason is that depending on the logoff/logon order of machines, DropBox will overwrite parts of its configuration, and then think it needs to start with a fresh configuration.
Solution: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/11
If you ever had one of the below errors and your system does not have Restore Points, then you’re hosed: virtually no chance for recovering from that (except for once case, see below).
The errors are these:
To recover from this error, you have to follow the steps in How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting, which requires you to have System Restore turned on as the global steps boil down to this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/09
We’re excited to announce Sysmon, a new Sysinternals utility that monitors and reports key system activity via the Windows event log, including detailed information about process creation, network connections and file creation timestamp changes. With Sysmon installed on your systems, you can collect and analyze these events to identify the presence of attackers, and correlate events across your network to track them as they traverse your network.
It was released on 20140714.
–jeroen
via Windows Sysinternals: Documentation, downloads and additional resources.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/08
Though there is a Unicode character for the Apple Command Key, there is none for the Windows Key.
The Windows font WinDings does have a character 255 for it, but that font usually is not installed on non-Windows systems. There it will look like Unicode Character ‘LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS’ (U+00FF)
This Unicode code point comes closest to the Windows key: Unicode Character ‘SQUARED PLUS’ (U+229E) and is used by Windows Key page on WikiPedia.
The Unicode code points for Mac modifier keys are these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/04
Though I’ve written only a few blog posts about 7zip – my compressor of choice ever since I discovered 7zip some 10 years ago around version 3.13 (their history goes much further back: 1999) – here is a fresh one:
7zip is a fast, free, multi-platform and has great compression. No wonder Toms Hardware gave them an award last year: And The Undisputed Winner Is… 7-Zip.
For Windows, I take the downloads from 7-Zip: there are both x64 and x86 versions (x64 supports more memory so can handle bigger archives).
For Mac, I’ve been using Keka – the free Mac OS X file archiver. Both compressing and decompressing involve dragging the uncompressed or compressed files to the Keka dock icon.
That is slightly more involved than the context menu in Windows, but it works great.
For Windows command line usage, I use either 7za.exe or 7z.exe (uses DLLs, supports more compression)
For Mac command line usage, I use p7zip.
–jeroen
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