Programming

KadS: a secure version of the Kademlia protocol

Posted in Programming on March 16th, 2009 by Philipp C. Heckel – Be the first to comment

There are various peer-to-peer protocols out there. All of them focus the decentralisation of storage and other system resources. Most implement a distributed hash table (DHT) to store information. That is, each node of the network only holds a small part of the hash table but is able to locate and retrieve any requested entry. Kademlia, a protocol designed by two NYU students in 2002, is one of them.

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Roundcube login via PHP script

Posted in Programming on May 16th, 2008 by Philipp C. Heckel – 27 Comments

Roundcube is an AJAX/PHP based e-mail application which is really flexible and easy to use in comparison to other free web based solutions.

For the customer interface of Silversun, I wanted to use RC as the internal web mail application and therefore had to embed it into my system. To avoid that the customer has to log in twice (customer interface and Roundcube), I had to simulate the login request with a PHP script.

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