Kudithipudi.Org » DID YOU KNOW http://kudithipudi.org Too much time on hand!!! Tue, 22 May 2012 13:11:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 DID YOU KNOW : Windows mobile and wildcard certs don’t work together http://kudithipudi.org/2012/03/23/did-you-know-windows-mobile-and-wildcard-certs-dont-work-together/ http://kudithipudi.org/2012/03/23/did-you-know-windows-mobile-and-wildcard-certs-dont-work-together/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:32:33 +0000 Vinay http://kudithipudi.org/?p=1273 Wildcard SSL certificates allow you to use one certificate for all sub domains (up to one level) of a host. Say I got a wildcard SSL certificate for *.kudithipudi.org, I would be able to use it to provide SSL on blah.kudithipudi.org, ssltest.kudithipudi.org, youcannotbeserious.kudithipudi.org and the clients won’t complaint about it.

For some reason though, Windows Mobile phones don’t like wildcard certs. So if you are ever scratching your head, why every other client works, but windows mobile devices don’t..stop scratching and get a regular SSL certificate for your website/application.

Apparently, this is the case with

  • Windows CE
  • Windows Mobile 5.0
  • Windows Mobile 6.0
  • Windows Mobile 7.0

Don’t you get the feeling that someone keeps using the same library and never bothered to check/fix it? And searching on MSDN or any other Microsoft resource won’t provide you this information. This is my own deduction after beating my head against the wall for more than 3 days :) .

]]> http://kudithipudi.org/2012/03/23/did-you-know-windows-mobile-and-wildcard-certs-dont-work-together/feed/ 0 DID YOU KNOW : How often the letter “e” is used? http://kudithipudi.org/2012/03/16/did-you-know-how-often-the-letter-e-is-used/ http://kudithipudi.org/2012/03/16/did-you-know-how-often-the-letter-e-is-used/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:08:28 +0000 Vinay http://kudithipudi.org/?p=1238 “e” is the most used letter in the english language. It appears ~12.7% of the time in the language.

The next popular letter is “t“, which appears ~ 9.1% of the time.

And “a” takes the third spot at 8.1%..

How did I find this out? From the free Crypto class being provided by Dan Boneh from the Stanford University.

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I say, we make that a world wide tradition :) .

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February 2010 has exactly

  • 4 Mondays
  • 4 Tuesdays
  • 4 Wednesdays
  • 4 Thursdays
  • 4 Fridays
  • 4 Saturdays
  • 4 Sundays

And this happens once in 11 years!! :)

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