About Adam Young

Once upon a time I was an Army Officer, but that was long ago. Now I work as a Software Engineer. I climb rocks, play saxophone, and spend way too much time in front of a computer.

Angelo

I was working at a local coffee shop when I noticed an old man walk in.  His hat had a Yin Yang on it.  It struck a memory and I Googled for a list of US Army division patches.  Easy access to modern technology told me more than I expected.  The 29th Infantry Division, the Blue and the Gray, landed at Bloody Omaha on June 6th, 1944.

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Certificates for Web SSO

Kerberos is a single sign on solution. AFAICT, it is the only one that solves the problem completely: You confirm that you are who you say you are, and the remote side confirms that it is who you think it is. It doesn’t work over he public internet only due to the fact that most corporate firewalls block the ports it needs.  So  we want to be able to do Kerberos, or its equivalent from the browser.

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Git and SVN for PKI

I’ve been working with the PKI/Dogtag code for a while. Over the past couple years, I’ve been more and more comfortable with Git. PKI uses SVN as a centralized Repository. Since Git SVN integration is fairly mature, I’ve been using that to manage my coding. On Monday, I gave a presentation to my team on Git SVN.  I’ve taken the outline from the slides and included it here.
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