Securing the Tangled Web

The tangled web of self-tying knots.

M athematician Leopold Kronecker stated “God created the integers, all else is the work of man,’’ alluding to the fact that the natural numbers most likely arose from physical counting, as in one’s fingers or goats in the pasture. Topology, however, is arguably a different creature altogether and may have had its own independent origins from the physical world in the ubiquitous knot—something t...

The Tangled Web of Password Reuse

Today’s Internet services rely heavily on text-based passwords for user authentication. The pervasiveness of these services coupled with the difficulty of remembering large numbers of secure passwords tempts users to reuse passwords at multiple sites. In this paper, we investigate for the first time how an attacker can leverage a known password from one site to more easily guess that user’s pas...

A Tangled Web of Deceit

When good web clients rst became available we decided that the Web provided enormous potential for the dissemination of information both within our department and throughout the university. We therefore decided to join the Web. At that time the only server available was a very primitive version of the CERN HTTPD, so we decided to create our own. This server was the basis for our current server ...

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Oxalate content of food: a tangled web.

OBJECTIVE To account for variations in dietary oxalate content in resources available to hyperoxaluric patients. Our objective is to examine the heterogeneity of the oxalate content reported across various Web-based sources and smartphone applications. METHODS A search of "oxalate content of food" was performed using the Google search engine. Smartphone applications were identified by their a...