News Archive
2008 | |
| 05/01 | Comment Feature on Many Pages & Spam Meter Update |
| You can now leave comments on all pages, except for overview pages. Also the Spam Meter project page has been updated to reflect the latest findings. | |
2007 | |
| 11/14 | Spam Meter Started |
| Technically speaking the project has been running for more than a month now, collecting some initial data. This project will determine the learning curve of todays distributed spamming tools, if there is any. | |
| 10/05 | HTTPSniff 0.4 |
| This version only fixes two bugs which occur on newer systems. No new features. | |
| 07/11 | Logic Analyzer for Spartan 3E and Altera DE2 |
| Jonas Diemer provided a version for the newer S3E starter kit and Kenneth Tsang ported the code to Verilog for the Altera DE2 board. | |
| 03/03 | Logic Analyzer v0.8 Released |
| Thanks to Frank Kunz, there is now a I2C protocol analyzer. | |
2006 | |
| 12/31 | Logic Analyzer v0.7 Released |
| Features a complex four stage serial and parallel trigger. All the VHDL code has been restructured to ease porting to different boards. For a list of all changes read the history page. | |
| 11/21 | Logic Analyzer v0.6a and Input Stage |
| Two developer contributions are now available on the logic analyzer pages: Frank Kunz provided an updated source package featuring a SPI analyzer and channel labels. Richard T. Stofer sent me a PCB layout for a 2.5-5V input stage. | |
| 09/22 | Compliance With Upcoming German Computer Crime Laws |
| On September 20, 2006 a new computer crime law was proposed by the German Bundestag. It will prohibit to publish computer programs suitable to crack passwords. As I do not have time to stay up to date on the issue, the following pages were modified to comply with the new law: FPGA password cracker and TheNet password cracker | |
| 09/05 | FPGA Based UNIX Crypt Hardware Password Cracker |
| The source is now available for download. It will do 9.2 MKeys/sec on a XC3S1000-4 device and scale easily to other chip sizes. | |
| 08/19 | Logic Analyzer v0.6 |
| Never say never. Last week I created a new version of the Logic Analyzer with many new features. Among them are support for external sample clocks (state analysis), transfer speed configuration, a post-processing plugin mechanism, experimental scope display and internal sample clock output to control external modules (like ADCs). The GUI has improved and known bugs are fixed. | |
| 06/22 | Logic Analyzer v0.5 |
| Up to 200MHz sampling rate and many other improvements. All content and documentation is up to date. This is likely the last big release. (There might be a bug fix release addressing some known minor issues.) | |
| 05/07 | Projects overview updated & Logic Analyzer v0.3 released |
| The main projects page now lists all projects with keywords. The keywords should help users to find projects relevant to them. The new version of the logic analyzer operates at 100MHz, meeting the inital design goal. | |
| 05/01 | Logic Analyzer v0.2 |
| Increases the maximum sampling rate to 80MHz. Source and Binary packages available for download. | |
| 04/05 | Logic Analyzer Preview |
| Little sneak preview on the project I am currently working on: A FPGA based logic analyzer - to finally have such a device handy and get familar with VHDL. | |
| 03/12 | Copyright Issues |
| I recently received an request asking about copyrights / license I use for my software. One of these days I will equip all the software downloads with the proper GPL license files and note in the headers. Until then you can assume its GPL. (If you are the guy who contacted me, please let me know if you found the message.) | |
2005 | |
| 12/04 | HTTPSniff 0.3 Available |
| It's a quick one day hack to get long missed features in the code. Expect bugs. Hopefully I'll feel guilty soon and create a clean next version. | |
| 11/28 | Frequency Counter/Timer page updated |
| It now supports precise low frequency measurements using multi-cycle duration timing. Firmware now downloadable. | |
| 08/13 | New Project: Signal Generator |
| After getting myself up to speed on electronics for school I decided to finally build myself a simple signal generator and frequency counter. | |
| 06/13 | Ireland Photographs |
| 03/27 | New HTTP Response Sniffer Version |
| Easter holidays allowed me to finish a new version. A list of improvements can be found in the history. | |
| 03/06 | Devolo ISDN Router Fix |
| Brief instructions for fixing an issue with the factory settings. | |
| 02/26 | Started German Version of sump.org |
| Right now only the start page is available in German. But more pages are scheduled for translation in the coming weeks. Having a German site allows me to add content of local interest in the local language. | |
2004 | |
| 10/25 | HTTP Response Sniffer |
| Sniffs and saves files contained in HTTP Responses crossing the wire - or air. | |
| 09/10 | Text Scrambler |
| Cheap copy of an interesting experiment to show how humans read text. | |
| 09/09 | Switzerland photograhps |
| Finally some new photographs. | |
| 08/21 | Audio Mixer Hack |
| How to convert a profitec mixer with 2 stereo inputs and 1 mono microphone input to 3 stereo inputs. | |
2003 | |
| 07/16 | RSS Feed added |
| I'm proud to announce reaching the next level of dorkiness by adding a RSS Feed to my web site. See below for the resource name. | |
2002 | |
| 12/08 | New section "Notes" |
| This section will hold all the small things that make life a little easier. | |
| 10/25 | Launching linkkarte.de |
| The first dynamic map for the cb packet radio network in Germany. An integrated expire mechanism ensures information is always up to date. For easy access this project got its own domain: | |
| 10/25 | RMI Registry Viewer |
| Small Java application to view the contents of a RMI Registry and details about the objects found. | |
| 10/10 | OnTrack prototype video clip |
| With almost one year delay the video clip is now available for download as DivX4 and MPEG1 on the OnTrack main page. Go there. | |
| 10/05 | TheNet password applets |
| After there were problems with 1.4, the two Java Applets have been recompiled using jdk 1.3 and will now work within the M$ world: Simulator | Cracker | |
2001 | |
| 11/24 | Robotics experiment |
| Finally a page obout the prototype of a robot that will follow tracks and find its way through mazes. Go there. | |
| 11/22 | Bundle of changes |
| First photographs in experiments section. All project info moved to projects main page. AX.25 Fortress canceled due decreasing importance of the ax.25 protocol. Some smaller changes. | |
| 08/20 | TheNet authentication cryptanalyzed |
| This investigation shows how bad the well known and much used TheNet authentication really is. But read yourself. This document is available in German as well. | |
| 07/20 | AX.25 Fortress project launched |
| After showing how vulnerable ax.25 happens to be, the next step is necessarily to come up with some protection scheme. So here we go. Since there wasn't any more space for a project in the main navigation, all projects moved to the Projects submenu. | |
| 06/30 | Silencer v2 available |
| As planned, the first ready to use Silencer 2 version is available for download today. There are still some things that need to be improved, but check out the examples to see what it can do already. | |
| 06/28 | I Surrender - New Layout |
| After people complained the top navigation would not make any sense to them, I fiddled around with the template to make more obvious what belongs together. Hopefully it is clear now and those people wonder what morons they were not to see it in the first place. >:) | |
| 06/18 | Scotland photographs |
| A day after I returned from my vacation a first selection of pictures is already available. Go there | |
| 02/15 | Waterwall shut down |
| The cats luckiest day. I moved out and took their nightmare with me. There is an archive of waterwall pictures I saved. Go there. | |
2000 | |
| 11/27 | Waterwall started |
| It's accomplished - project waterwall is completed, filled up, well powered and online. Check my webcam for results or the project main page for details. | |
| 11/18 | New #r2eboot content |
| Added some pics of one of the #r2eboot devices I built. Spiced up with some descriptions and details. But check it out yourself: Go there | |
| 11/05 | Mail available |
| I finally found the time to install a SMTP MTA for my domain. Now all that's missing is a good way to forward emails to my palm so I actually read them. :) I'll keep you updated on this. | |
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