Category Archives: Technology

Secure Data Destruction

Posted on 2014-07-09 by Nigel VH

In light of my recent work with making things more secure with a truly random number generator for use in feeding the kernel entropy pool, I also thought it would be a good time to visit secure data destruction, and … Continue reading →

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Random Number Generator

Posted on 2014-07-09 by Nigel VH

I’ve always been interested in the idea of truly random phenomenon, and in particular, the quantum effects like avalanche noise that one can take advantage of to generate truly random data. Note that I say truly random, as compared to … Continue reading →

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IRIS Transmitter V1.2

Posted on 2014-06-07 by Nigel VH

I’ve been working on creating a new version of my IRIS Transmitter boards, which I use for high altitude balloon trackers. This was somewhat more of a re-architechture from the 1.0 and 1.1 revisions. Revision 1.2 brings a number of … Continue reading →

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Black Rock 2014

Posted on 2014-05-11 by Nigel VH

As some of you may know, each year for the past several, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to volunteer my time and expertise to a couple of classes at the University of Washington, one of which makes a … Continue reading →

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Cacti Poller Issues

Posted on 2014-05-11 by Nigel VH

Cacti has proven to be a pretty useful tool in my experience, but recently, one of my installations seemed to be plagued with random graph drop outs. I’d not seen this sort of issue before that wasn’t related to network … Continue reading →

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