Web application

Image Viewer/Resizer

spoulson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:15:57 -0400

There have been times I wanted to post a link to an image on a web page, forum, or elsewhere on the web but I didn't want to manually resize a large image everytime and store duplicates. Instead, I coded this simple tool to take a single image and resize it on the fly.

Crypt File Manager

spoulson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:13:50 -0400

I found myself always in need of some personal information that I stored on my home PC, but while I was not at home; things like: banking information, PINs, web site passwords, etc. Being security-minded, I knew I did not want to print out this information and risk somehow losing it. I could copy it up to my Yahoo! Notepad account or under a password protected directory of my web site but that's grossly insecure.

Symmetric Crypt Tool

spoulson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:10:55 -0400

As an experiment with symmetric encryption, I put together a simple example to show how it works. You can choose from DES or Blowfish ciphers and encrypted output can be binary, hex string, or base64 encoded.

Written in Perl/CGI and uses the Crypt::CBC module bundle for ciphers.

Link to live demo

Live demos of some simple web tools I developed

spoulson — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:06:47 -0400

As an IT guy, I look to using computers to solve some of my day to day problems. I say computers in plural because I readily use two at home and one at work, and I could also be in the internet cafe near my work. For instance, I store my personal passwords and other sensitive information in Crypt File Manager. It stays secure by encryption in such a way that not even my web host provider can access the data and the password is not stored anywhere on the web server or browser. This solution works great because I can access it wherever I want with only a web browser.