Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v4.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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Capitalware’s letter to the NHL

Yesterday, I decided to send a letter to the NHL regarding the head shots and cheap shots going on in the NHL. Here is a scan of the letter that Capitalware sent to the NHL (in PDF format). Here is the text of the letter: Dear Commissioner Bettman: We are contacting you today to add […]

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A Comparison of Capitalware’s MQ Enterprise Security Suite to IBM’s WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security

The following is a comparison of Capitalware’s MQ Enterprise Security Suite (MQESS) to IBM’s WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (WMQ AMS).   Capitalware’s MQESS IBM’s WMQ AMS Authentication Yes NO End-to-End Encryption Yes Yes Supported Encryption AES 128-bit AES 192-bit AES 256-bit   Yes Yes Yes   Yes No Yes Digital Signature SHA-2 SHA-1/MD5 Requires […]

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New: MQ Enterprise Security Suite

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Enterprise Security Suite. MQ Enterprise Security Suite (MQESS) is a new solution that provides authentication and data protection (Channels and Queues) for WebSphere MQ. MQ Enterprise Security Suite is comprised of: MQ Authenticate Security Exit for Authentication MQ Channel Encryption for Data Protection for […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v1.0.0

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v1.0.0. MQ Message Encryption (MQME) provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information into an unreadable form (encrypted data). […]

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Why choose MQ Channel Encryption over SSL?

MQ Channel Encryption (MQCE) is priced at $299 USD (volume discounts available) per queue manager plus 15% yearly maintenance and support fee. SSL costs roughly $400 per certificate per year from a 3rd party CA (Certificate Authority). Hence, MQCE’s initial cost is cheaper than SSL and the ongoing yearly cost of MQCE is substantially cheaper […]

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Security White Paper

James Michael Stewart of Global Knowledge has written a white paper called: Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security Here’s the interesting part: All too often when hacking is discussed, it is assumed that the hacker is some unknown outsider. However, studies have shown that a majority of security violations actually are caused by internal employees.  So, […]

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New WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service Date

The original WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service date was September 30th, 2011, as noted in my blog posting here: https://www.capitalware.com/rl_blog/?p=98 Just recently, IBM has changed/updated the WebSphere MQ v6 End of Service date to be September 30th, 2012 (they added one more year). http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/support/lifecycle/ http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS211-072/index.html&breadCrum=DET001PT288&url=buttonpressed=DET001PT008&page=0&user+type=EXT&submit.x=12&submit.y=6&lang=en_US Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Flocking

And now for something completely different: flocking (aka group behavior). If you ever had a need for an algorithm that handles flocking then have a look at this article (its really interesting): http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms—flocking Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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