Tag: complexity

The SQRL and the One Time Login (OTL).

Paul

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You probably are wondering about this.   I heard it from Steve Gibson and he calls it “squirrel” Code.  It basically helps those who are worried about security and privacy.   I just didn’t want to forget to talk about this myself.  Ever since I heard the podcast entitled “SQRL Episode 424”,  my mind has been trying to get a handle of the whole thing. 

What most people don’t know and haven’t yet figure out is how useful a QR Code is.   I did not think of this solution and would of laughed if I did.  It is really simple, but yet from what I have heard and understand it could be a game changer in the next few months.  I just have a few things that I must be fixed and standardized.   I wanted to share them with you and maybe in the same instants help the community with this problem.

One Time Login “OTL”

Since we are basically logging in every time we use a different QR Code we are only allowing one instance of the login for each time we use a SQRL login.  Thus we will need to limit the time and when we can use that one QR to login.   We also must figure out how we will deal with collision logins.  This is where the site or server sends out the same securely generated long random number to two different users.   This could happen if say we were using this on like Facebook or Twitter.   It is unlikely but possible, unless we disallow it to only be used once and then we get into the ridiculousness of even longer random numbers.   The only thing I can come up with is using the date and time to create the cryptographic challenge.   This would change the it from any two different users from getting the same challenge and thus we would avoid the collision of logins.  

Pretty Good Privacy

The next problem is which encryption key would we want to associate with the smartphone.   I personally think PGP is a good one to start off with and maybe even create the public key that is needed to accomplish this.   The Smartphone in question could be linked in some way to a server with our public key PGP.   I am unsure as to how well this will work but it would allow us to share that key whenever needed.   It may not work but I am thinking we should only use Open Source encryption and thus this is one of the many options.

If the Smartphone is stolen?

This is where PGP can be very useful, we could Revoke the key and tell everyone else this is is no longer trusted and thus we prevent illegal logins to our services.   I’ve heard people do with PGP and thus it should be really easy to implement in SQRL but again, I am not a designer or even ever created things like this so I thought we should at least throw that out and see what people say about it.

Needs to be Available Everyone

It needs to be available on IOS, Android, and even Windows systems.   When this happens it will make it that much easier for this to succeed. 

As you can see I have  these small questions that need to be answer and I even saw some others which I will gladly link to to better help those who may want to explore more into this realm that Steve has started.  

What do you have to say about this and are you curious to see this happen or do you think this will even work.  I may have missed something or do not fully understand it but at least I am wanting this to succeed.   What is your thoughts on this?

Understanding Adsense for the Beginner

Paul

So you have a website and you’d like the site to pay for itself. That can be arranged it however depends on your website performance. You see you won’t make a lot of money if you don’t have several things going for you. I thought I share with you my experience with making money through Adsense. As you saw, I made enough money to pay for the website for 5 years. It isn’t hard to make money it is however very difficult to keep getting the money. Most people don’t know the tricks to making money with Google’s Adsense.

I’m here to help you out a little with understanding it and getting even more money from your adsense.   So here we are 3 months into to putting Adsense seriously on my site and let’s take a look shall we:

My earnings for 3 months

As you can see I started off quite slowly as I figured out how to best do it but gained momentum after that.    First Month I made $17.19 and the Second Month I made $45.57, the last month I made $64.99 totaling $127.75 leaving me with 16.75$ from the few previous months that I tinkered with Adsense.   So where do you start?  I found that to be the hardest part, because of the complexity of where I could put the ads.   I tried having strips breaking up the text in my blog post that really didn’t get me hardly any clicks.  Then I started to incorporate the Adsense into the posts.  I learned how to do it through a great blog post and I’ll talk about that later.   Here’s what you need to know right now though:

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  • Create good content —  This goes without saying that if you don’t have good content people will never find your site.   There are a multitude of ways to create content.   Some of the most useful for me is How-to, finding a Niche, and Also just blogging about what you passionate about.   These will often draw people to your website.

  • Gjaylaramieet people to link to your post —  This will help with search engines because they do some math to figure out if your a real site and how trustworthy your site is on the internet.

  • Use Microblogging —  It is well known people use Twitter, Friendfeed, and others a like to tell people what they post about.   It can be great place to help promote your blog and get people to come more and more to your site.

  • Try not to annoy the users with Ads — This is the most important if you want people to come back to your site you should make sure you don’t send people away from your site.  People will not want to come back if you annoy them to much.   So it is essential that you keep them happy.

  • Find a good blog theme — A good theme helps bring people to your site by making it easier to read and find what they are looking for.  You might also consider making a sneeze page to keep people coming back to your site.  This will help your readers and make it more of your own.  You might also want to buy a theme for your blog sooner or later.

With These tips and tricks you too could be on your way to having a great blog.   I would be willing to bet that soon I will be triple that amount if I keep up with what I am doing.   I hope you tell people about this blog and let people know how good this blog is for you.   Remember only you can prevent virus infections.