Friday, October 5th, 2012

Time	Event
3:08p	The CryptoParty Handbook The first draft of the CryptoParty Handbook, a 390-page guide to maintaining privacy in the networked world, is available. "This book was written in the first 3 days of October 2012 at Studio Weise7, Berlin, surrounded by fine food and a lake of coffee amidst a veritable snake pit of cables. Approximately 20 people were involved in its creation, some more than others, some local and some far (Melbourne in particular)." It is available under the (still evolving) CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The guide, too, is still evolving; it should probably be regarded the way one would look at early-stage cryptographic code. Naturally, the authors are looking for contributors to help make the next release better. (Comment on this)
4:28p	Samsung's F2FS filesystem Back in August, a linux-kernel discussion on removable device filesystems hinted at a new filesystem waiting in the wings. It now seems clear that said filesystem was the just-announced F2FS, a flash-friendly filesystem from Samsung. "F2FS is a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage." See the associated documentation file for details on the F2FS on-disk format and how it works. (Comment on this)
6:54p	Friday's security updates Debian has updated libxslt (code execution). Mandriva has updated ghostscript (code execution), imagemagick (denial of service), and java-1.6.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated linux-ec2 (10.04; denial of service) and python2.6 (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)

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