Alfresco is capable of handling multiple classifications, or hierarchies of classification, it's a very useful feature, and can make your life a lot easier when looking for documents, especially the ones with no indexed content like pictures, scanned documents etc...
Classifying a document in Alfresco can be as easy as few clicks on the browser, however it can be very time-consuming process if...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Getting started with Alfresco
During my internship at TGR, one of the project's requirements was indexing and managing documents, and that was my first experience with Alfresco, which is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM), it combines a collection of content-centric technologies like Document Management (DM), Records Management (RM), and other technologies that should make your life, if your field of work...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
IOS 4.2 released
Since yesterday, 18h, the latest release of IOS which is 4.2 is officially available for downloads.
New features :
AirPrint: print email, photos, web pages, and documents right from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
AirPlay: stream digital media wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to your Apple TV and AirPlay-enabled speakers.
Find My IPhone: helps you locate your missing device and...
Friday, November 19, 2010
smart Card tutorial : Part 2
In my previous article smart Card tutorial : Part 1, i explained how you can use the Cryptographic Token Interface Standard PKCS#11 in order to access your smart card or USB Token, and perform some simple operations like listing the connected tokens, and displaying each device's informations (Serial Number, Vendor etc...).
This second part will cover some advanced usage of PKCS#11 like :
Generating...
smart Card tutorial : Part 1
By Sohaib Haltout9:21 AMcertificate Authority, digital Certificates, PKCS#11, PKI, RSA, smart card, X5097 comments

When your application handles or performs sensitive data or operations, security becomes a major concern, which is why some companies decides to use Strong Authentication for their applications, also known as 'two factors authentication' : one thing that you have (the smart Card, or USB token), and one that you know (the PIN or password).
This article will be the start of a series of tutorials...
Java JNDI Tutoriel : Ldap query
Our topic of discussion today will be JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface), which is a standard way to query directories for different kind of available informations.We will see how you can use Java to interact with OpenLdap or any other directory (like Apache OpenDS etc...).In order to connect to an ldap directory server we will need to know :
The server url (in our case localhost)
The authentication...
EJBCA : a Step By Step install Guide
As mentionned in my previous Article Presenting EJBCA, this article will explain how to have an In-House Certificate Authority up and running using EJBCA.
EJBCA needs a couple of componenets to be installed in order for it to work, we will be using :
EJBCA 3.9.5
Mysql Server 5
Apache Ant 1.7
OpenJDK 6 JDK
JCE (Java Cryptographique Extension) 6
JBoss Application Server 4.4
MySQL Java Connector...
Presenting EJBCA
Your enterprise decided recently to start using digital Certificates for authentication, digital signatures, Server authentication etc... in other words, you need a Certificate Authority(CA) in order to deliver certificates for your servers and users.
Of course, you can choose to buy certificates from known vendors like VerSign,Thawte etc... but you will need to pay for every certificate a user...
A new Software Engineering Blog
Hi and welcome everyone,
My name is Haltout Sohaib, a Moroccan Software Engineer, software building, engineering and security auditing always been my passion, although being a student right now, i did work as freelancer a couple of times, especially security related jobs.
My friends, and people i worked with, or helped, have always recommended me to start a blog, but never really had time to...