Adventures in Crypto Land: Installing MuscleApplet on a ‘Gemalto TOP IM FIPS CY2′ (Cyberflex Access 64k v2) Smart Card

This is an esoteric bit of knowledge which has unfortunately disappeared from the internet, as far as I can tell. (It was formerly hosted at http://www.dseven.org/twiki/bin/view/Stuff/SolarisSmartCard)
Here’s the gpshell script to install MuscleApplet on a ‘Gemalto TOP IM FIPS CY2′ (Cyberflex Access 64k v2) Smart Card:
mcardInstallFormat-CyberFlex64kV2c.txt

Subject is thirsty: dispense beverage

This is a picture of me, which isn’t photoshopped, believe it or not.
A truck parked next to my window and my coworker took a picture.
It looks a bit like I’m studying someone from a control room or a tiny floating space ship. :p

A solution to ISP bandwidth caps: Universal Cache Servers?

I’ve been putting some thought into the source of the problem plaguing bandwidth consuming internet customers over the past few years, where ISPs, faced with saturating their network connections, have resorted to charging customers extra for heavy downloading.
The Problem
In 1996, the fastest reasonable residential connection you could get was a 28.8kbit modem, and the fastest [...]

Games I’ve Played

Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve acquired a lot of games and just forgot to play them, leaving them to collect dust, so in an effort to keep track of the games I want to play, I’ve created a game experience list.

Adventures In Crypto Land Part 1: Setting up my Aladdin eToken PRO 32k on Linux

Ever since I discovered public key cryptography can be used for authentication and e-mail privacy, I’ve been itching to use it, but one thing always held me back. I feared that the possibility existed for a hacker to secretly breech my personal computer, copy out the sensitive private key, and spy on my communications [...]