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• ActionScript, Flash Player, Security

  Adobe Player Security Update

  25.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Adobe plans to release a new security update for the Flash Player on 9 April 2008. The update plans to fix the issues listed in the December 2007 Security Bulletin ABSP07-20 for DNS rebinding and cross-domain policy file vulnerabilities, and Security […]

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• ActionScript, Security

  As3Crypto - ActionScript 3 Cryptography Library

  27.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today I found this interesting library - AS3 Crypto Framework 1.3. Many algorithms used for cryptography are implemented in this class: TLS 1.0 support (partial), X.509 Certificate parsing and validation, RSA (encrypt/decrypt, sign/verify), AES, DES, 3DES, BlowFish, XTEA, RC4, ECB, CBC, CFB, CFB8, OFB, CTR, MD2, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, PKCS#5, PKCS#1 type 1 and […]

  Popularity: 28%

• ActionScript, Security

  CAPTCHA in Flex - Using to Check the User

  09.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now here is an example how to check a user using our CAPTCHA.
  

  
  For source files see bellow.
  Popularity: 38%captcha

  Popularity: 38%

• ActionScript, Security

  CAPTCHA in Flex - Running Example

  01.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  And now here is a running example. This shows how to generate a CAPTCHA setting about 4 parameters.
  

  
  More parameters can be added to this example, like dots size, polygons transparency, font size but all that are features.
  Enjoy!
  PS: Sources are bellow.
  Popularity: 38%captcha

  Popularity: 38%

• ActionScript, Security

  CAPTCHA in Flex - Main Class

  30.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently I needed to implement a CAPTCHA (means: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” - on wikipedia) functionality to a sign-up form in flex.
  So here is the class:

  public class Captcha extends Canvas
  {
  private const CAPTCHA_WIDTH:uint = 120;
  private const CAPTCHA_HEIGHT:uint = 40;
  […]

  Popularity: 31%

• Flex resources, Made in Flex, Security

  Cross domain policy

  17.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Some times you may pass over the following problem: the data doesn’t loads although the flex application is showing busy cursor. It remains in the loading process but it doesn’t finish. One of the following thing happens:

  As you can see in the image above the SWF is not accessing the same domain it come from […]

  Popularity: 36%

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