Ok, so it has been a while. Time for an update.
KFest 2008 is 22 Days away and I wont be there this year. I'm kinda bummed about that. Especially because I know that there will be a few things announced that will be very interesting.
Unfortunately, I can't talk about them directly or I'd spoil the surprise but I've had a hand in a few of them. So while I can't blog and let you know what I've been doing, please be satisfied in the knowledge that I haven't been doing nothing!
As a followup to the last entry, I've been using JPEG Lossless rotator to rotate the upside down scanned pages. This seems to work adequately, however the rotation can only work on sizes that are a multiple of 16, so the image width is slightly cropped. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to choose what side got cropped - but I haven't noticed any major issues so hopefully neither will anyone else.
Printing all the pages into a single PDF results in a ~60MB file for each issue. This is too large to place on my webserver so I can't make them available easily yet. I'll probably have to drop them onto CD and resort to snail mail to get them to Bill. If he ever wants to continue this project that is... I haven't heard from him for a long time now.
One thing that is unlikely to be announced at KFest is Marinetti 3.0. I've discovered that the source code for the Tool stub has not yet been released so it makes sense to me to wait until Richard has time to extract it.
Those people following comp.sys.apple2 with a keen eye will notice that there's been some movement on MS-CHAPv2. Polymorph has ported the SHA-1 hashing algorithm to Orca/C and Geoff Weiss is busily merging it into his Hashtool tool set. Once its there, work on the MS-CHAPv2 protocol can begin in earnest.
I've asked Polymorph to consider porting the RC-4 encryption algorithm as his next challenge. With this, someone may be able to implement a secure channel like SSL or SSH. Now that would be interesting.
You'd probably need an emulator to run it fast enough though. Oh darn, there isnt an emulator that can connect to the host's TCP/IP stack... yet 