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Warning! This page used to be kept up to date but hadn't been for a number of years. Expect a lot of broken links ahead!
This obviously is not an exhaustive list of everything, but I tend to use it as a reference point for things that are hard to search for that I want to jot down somewhere.
- Floating Point Converter
- A fantastic tool to show you how floating point numbers will be represented, and if they can be represented exactly.
- PGP Path Builder
- For building a trust path between two keys.
- Android Census
- Exposes a ton of information across Android devices including sysctls, files, libraries...
- Mike's Toolbox Enhanced Multi-Threaded SSL/TLS Test Server
- A nice site that exposes nearly everything about your client's SSL session: ciphers, extensions, and secrets.
- mod_rewrite Rule Tester
- This lets you put in a series of potentially complex mod_rewrite rules and then test arbitrary urls against them.
- CA Risk Incident History
- A wiki page that lists security incidents of Certificate Authorities.
- File Formats
- A good resource for common file formats, including zip, jpg, and gz.
- The Bit Twiddler
- A collection of bit twiddling hacks to do constant time things such as finding if a number is a power of 2 or not.
- Consolidated Terminology for Anonymity
- When you're confronted with a term you've not seen before but you know means something specific (like 'unlinkability'), this may help.
- Client Certificate Viewer
- Used to get information about the client certificates you can send to a server, and how the values are mapped to variables.
- Unicode Spoofer, the ICU Project, and SpoofChecker
- Tools for generating or checking for Unicode spoofing attacks
- oid-info & alvestrand.no
- If you need to look up OID information, these databases are a good place to start. (Here's how to get your own OID arc)
- Fixing a Git Messup
- An awesome flowchart on how to fix your git messups (of which I have many, and man git provides no assistance).
- x86 Oddities
- Interesting and strange things in assembly.
- Domestic Islamic-Related Terrorism in the US, 9/11/01-6/11
- Have you ever wondered just what we're being protected from? Here's the list, with categories showing how sophisticated the terrorists were.
- John the Ripper Hash Formats
- I spent a lot of time working with john, and figuring out what hash formats looked like was a big pain in the butt. This guy did it for you.
- Converting GPG keys to subkeys
- Almost no one (including me for now...) uses PGP keys the correct way - keeping on non-expiring offline key for signing individual subkeys over time. This is a guide on how to set that up.
- Tools Library
- A library of Pen Testing and Reverse Engineering tools, with categories and descriptions.
- Windows Kernel Structures Over Time
- Comparison of Windows Structures diffed between OS and SP over time.
- Windows Security Log Index
- Windows Security logs, with documentation about them. Might be findable with google, but here for posterity.
- Linux Hardware to Kernel Modules Database
- Paste the output of lspci -n, and it tells what kernel modules you should compile in. Invaluable!
- RegExr
- The only way to write a regular expression. Once you try this you'll never go back.
- Daily DNS Changes
- For watching the internet change.
- Hardware Poster
- For identifying what part it is that you have.
- Freebase
- A database of everything (or aiming for it) in a more structured format than Wikipedia. You can actually query Freebase and pull out specific data in reliable data types. As any community maintained project, there may be holes. But still, a great resource. It's data enabled the Wal-mart Expansion video by providing founding dates for all Wal-mart stores, and latitude and longitude of all Us Zip Codes.
- MySQL Development Tools
- I'm tired of using phpMyAdmin to browse tables and run queries when SQL Server Management Studio is so nice. I'm going to use one of these next time.
- Online UML/Database Schema Creator
- Just like you'd draw on the board, or in Visio, you can do it hear, and then export the actual MySQL commands. I haven't used it much, but it looks super handy.
- Jeffrey's Exif Viewer
- View EXIF data for any image, either by upload or URL.
- Solutions for tracing UNIX applications
- How to examine, trace, and debug out of control or hung processes .
- IP Index Encyclopedia
- If you get hammered by IPs all the time, this can quickly help you track it down. Schools and their pesky students are the easiest-to-find offenders.
- Undersea Cable Map
- A map showing all the undersea cables, and their termination points.
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