David A. Wheeler’s Personal Home Page

2009 UK Action Plan for Open Source Software

Open Proofs: New site and why we need them

Automating DESTDIR for Packaging

• Security
  • Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO -- Creating Secure Software
  • flawfinder, a source code scanner
  • Securing Microsoft Windows (for Home & Small Business Users)
  • Presentation: Securing Open Source Software [Editable Slides]*
  • Presentation: Open Source Software and Software Assurance (Security) [Editable Slides]*
  • SCM Security
  • Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers)
  • Java Security, a tutorial
  • Easier Email Security is on the Way?
  • Write It Secure: Format Strings and Locale Filtering
  • "Techniques for Cyber Attack Attribution" by David A. Wheeler (Oct 2003) (discusses attacker traceback / source tracking on a TCP/IP-based Internet)
• Software Innovations
  • The Most Important Software Innovations
  • Microsoft, the Innovator?
  • Innovation and OSS/FS
• Open Standards
  • Is OpenDocument an Open Standard? Yes!
  • Presentation: Open Standards and Security [Editable Slides]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC]
  • Open Standards, Open Source
• Countering Spam
  • Countering Spam Using Email Passwords
  • Comments on Email Authentication for Countering Spam
  • Stop Spam! (Essay)
  • Guarded Email Protocol
• Chess
  • A Garden of Chess Openings
  • Fischer Random Chess (Chess960)
  • FEN2Wikipedia
  • Famous chess games: The Game of the Century (PGN/Text), The Immortal Game (PGN/Text), The Evergreen Game (PGN/Text), Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 (PGN/Text)
  • ChessClub
• Ada
  • Lovelace, Ada95 tutorial
  • Steelman papers
• Mathematical Recreations
  • The Definitive Four Fours Answer Key
  • Way Off Base, discussing weird bases
  • When Adding and Multiplying are the Same
• Formal Methods
• Text Adventures / MUDs / Interactive Fiction (IF)
  • Accuse, text adventure puzzle-game
  • Adventure/Colossal Cave
  • Anchorhead
• Miscellaneous Essays
  • Reviews of Books, Movies, and Other Stuff
  • CISCO VPN / Wireless incompatibility
  • Liberty Bill 2
  • Treat Washington, DC as Part of Maryland for Congressional Elections
  • Random Opinions
  • Man as the World-Builder
  • How to Throw a Matrix Party
  • Crystal City Name Changes
  • Miscellaneous links
• High School Advanced Math/Precalculus info (I teach)
• My web attic - where I put older things.

• Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS or FLOSS)
  • Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers! (Paper)
  • Why FLOSS? Look at the Numbers! (Presentation)
  • FLOSS is commercial software
  • How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs
  • Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs
  • Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else
  • FLOSS License Slide
  • High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods (aka high confidence or high integrity)
  • OSS/FS References
  • Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems
  • What Should Governments Examine in Acquiring COTS Open Source Software (OSS)? (presentation)
  • Presentation: Open Source Software (for U.S. Acquisitions) (2007-03) [ODF]* [OGG] [MP3] [FLAC]
  • Questions and Answers, OSS and DoD
  • Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions (this is a gentle introduction to FLOSS)
• Source Lines of Code (SLOC)
  • Counting SLOC papers, inc. "More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux’s size"
  • SLOCCount, a program to measure SLOC
  • Linux Kernel 2.6: It’s Worth More!
• Other Documents
  • George Mason University (GMU) Thesis/Dissertation Sample Document in OpenDocument format [PDF]
  • Uri(7), documentation on URI/URLs for Linux
• Miscellaneous Software
  • Totro, a random name generator (also: Totro.pl)
  • Readable s-expressions and sweet-expressions for Lisp-like languages
  • html2wikipedia
  • quoter, translates HTML, SGML, and XML quotation marks
• Computer-related essays
  • Eliminate Software Patents
  • Microsoft Outlook TNEF handling (aka Winmail.dat or "Part 1.2" problem of unopenable email attachments)
  • Comments on Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems
  • Automating DESTDIR for packaging
  • Easy and Cross-Platform GUI development FLOSS tools with Unix/Linux support
  • SCM Security
  • How to revive an old laptop
  • Suggestions for Palm users
  • My FOSDEM 2002 Travelogue
  • My FISL 6.0 (2005) Travelogue
  • My review of Debugging by David J. Agans
  • Simple and Readable Text Markup Languages vs. Rich Web Text Editing
  • Quotes in HTML
  • Virtualbox and Fedora Linux