About Me
My name is Joshua Davies and I am currently a software architect at SiriusXM,
specializing in recommender systems. Before that, I was the principal security architect at
Travelocity for 10 years, and
have been consulting or developing for the past 20. I've been
programming all my professional life, and as a result, I've never
had to hold a real job. I started programming in Basic when my father
brought home the family's first computer, a TI-99/4A, in 1982. I later
graduated to a Commodore 64 and outgrew Basic. I did a bit of research
and at the time, the only other option for programming on a Commodore 64
was assembler. As a result, I went straight from the warm, friendly,
hospitable environment of C64 Basic to cold, hard, unforgiving 6510
assembler. Still, I persevered and managed to put together some fairly
sophisticated applications - I'm glad for the experience, because early
on, I developed a very intuitive notion of how computers actually work.
When I started college, computer science seemed like a natural choice as
a major - I have an undergraduate degree in computer science from Valdosta
State University and a masters degree in computer science from the University
of Texas at Arlington.
These days, I mostly program in Java, although I make excuses to code in
C whenever I can get away with it. One such excuse is my new book,
Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and
PKI, which includes fully worked-out reference implementations of
SSLv2, TSL1.0 and TLS 1.2, along with details of all of the common
cryptographic protocols employed by SSL/TLS. If you have any interest
in SSL/TLS - especially if you plan to do any programming that involves
using or implementing the protocol(s) - you should definitely check it
out.
I'm married to my beautiful wife Lupita, and have two wonderful children:
Dylan is 16, and Isabelle is 14.
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I'm the author of the book
"Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI".
Like the title says, this is a from-the-ground-up examination
of the SSL protocol that provides security, integrity and
privacy to most application-level internet protocols, most notably HTTP.
I include the
source
code to a complete working SSL implementation,
including the most popular cryptographic algorithms
(DES, 3DES, RC4, AES, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, HMAC, MD5, SHA-1,
SHA-256, and ECC), and show how they all fit together
to provide transport-layer security.
Joshua Davies
Past Posts
- April 30, 2021: A Date Picker Control in Vanilla Javascript
- March 31, 2021: A Web Admin Console for Redis, Part Three
- January 27, 2021: A Web Admin Console for Redis, Part Two
- December 21, 2020: A Web Admin Console for Redis, Part One
- November 30, 2020: What is Procmail and why is it using up all my memory?
- September 30, 2020: Minimal Drag and Drop Support in Javascript
- August 31, 2020: Covariance and Contravariance in Generic Types
- July 31, 2020: How Spread Out Are the Floating Point Numbers?
- June 25, 2020: ERD Diagramming Tool, Part Three
- April 30, 2020: ERD Diagramming Tool, Part Two
- March 31, 2020: ERD Diagramming Tool, Part One
- February 28, 2020: MathJax and "t.setAttribute is not a function"
- December 30, 2019: Solving Systems of Equations with Python
- October 30, 2019: Linear Regression with and without numpy
- September 30, 2019: Reading a Parquet file outside of Spark
- August 30, 2019: UML Diagrams with MetaUML
- July 30, 2019: Clustering in Python
- June 25, 2019: A Walkthrough of a TLS 1.3 Handhsake
- May 31, 2019: A DataType Printer in Java
- April 30, 2019: A Simple HTTP Server in Java, Part 3 - Cookies and Keep Alives
- March 28, 2019: A Simple HTTP Server in Java, Part 2 - POST and SSL
- February 28, 2019: A Simple HTTP Server in Java
- January 29, 2019: Angular CLI Behind the Scenes, Part Two
- September 30, 2018: Angular CLI Behind the Scenes, Part One
- August 31, 2018: Into the MMIX MOR Instruction
- July 24, 2018: Undoing Percentage Changes in your Head
- June 30, 2018: Generating Langford Pairs in Scala
- May 25, 2018: Reflections on Three Years of Reading Knuth
- April 30, 2018: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.junit.vintage. engine.descriptor.RunnerTestDescriptor. getAllDescendants
- March 30, 2018: An Excel Spreadsheet for the Academy Awards
- February 28, 2018: Git for Subversion Users
- January 31, 2018: The Evolution of AngularJS
- December 31, 2017: Numerical Integration in Python
- October 31, 2017: Gradle for Java Developers
- September 29, 2017: Reflections on another year of reading Knuth
- August 30, 2017: SSL OCSP Exchange
- July 27, 2017: A walk-through of an SSL certificate exchange
- June 30, 2017: A walk-through of an SSL key exchange
- May 31, 2017: A walk-through of the SSL handshake
- March 31, 2017: A walk-through of the TCP handshake
- February 28, 2017: The TLS Handshake at a High Level
- January 31, 2017: A Walk-through of a JWT Verification
- August 31, 2016: Reflections on a year of reading Knuth
- July 29, 2016: Matching a private key to a public key
- June 30, 2016: A Completely Dissected GZIP File
- May 31, 2016: Automatic Guitar Tablature Generator, Part 2
- April 28, 2016: Automatic Guitar Tablature Generator, Part 1
- March 31, 2016: Import an encrypted private key into a Java Key Store
- February 26, 2016: Import a private key into a Java Key Store
- January 31, 2016: Debian Linux on MacBook Pro
- December 29, 2015: Is Computer Science necessary or useful for programmers?
- November 30, 2015: Client certificate authentication vs. password authentication
- October 28, 2015: A Utility for Viewing Java Keystore Contents
- September 29, 2015: Debugging jQuery with Chrome's Developer Tools
- August 26, 2015: Getting Perl, MySQL and Apache to all work together on Mac OS/X
- July 30, 2015: Extract certificates from Java Key Stores for use by CURL
- June 29, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 9: The Console Tab
- May 28, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 8: The Audits Tab
- April 30, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 7: The Resources Tab
- March 30, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 6: The Memory Profiler Tab
- February 27, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 5: The CPU Profiler Tab
- January 31, 2015: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 4: The Timeline Tab
- December 31, 2014: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 3: The Sources Tab
- October 31, 2014: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 2: The Network Tab
- September 30, 2014: Using the Chrome web developer tools, Part 1: The Elements Tab
- August 11, 2014: Unable to find valid certification path to requested target
- June 30, 2014: Sort by a Hierarchy
- May 29, 2014: OpenSSL Tips and Tricks
- April 25, 2014: Heartbleed: What the Heck Happened
- February 28, 2014: Replace Microsoft Money with a Spreadsheet
- January 29, 2014: An Illustrated Guide to the BEAST Attack
- December 21, 2013: Where does GCC look to find its header files?
- October 24, 2013: Planning a Subversion import
- August 28, 2013: Compile and test an iOS app from the command line
- July 31, 2013: The Hidden Costs of Software Reuse
- June 26, 2013: Beware of mvn war:inplace
- May 29, 2013: Block Font Design Using Javascript
- April 4, 2013: Parsing a POM file using only SED
- February 22, 2013: Inside the PDF File Format
- December 31, 2012:How and why rotation matrices work
- November 27, 2012:Date Management in Java
- October 21, 2012:
Installing Debian Without a Network
- August 14, 2012:
My Review of Matt Neuburg's "Programming iOS 5"
- July 16, 2012:
An example OAuth 1.0 Handshake and mini-library
- May 23, 2012:
A Javascript one-liner to display cookie values
- April 27, 2012:
How SSL Certificates Use Digital Signatures
- March 29, 2012:
A breakdown of a GIF decoder
- February 15, 2012:
The design and implementation of LZW (the GIF compression algorithm)
- January 16, 2012:
Calculate the day of week of any date... in your head
- December 4, 2011:
Understanding CRC32
- October 29, 2011:
Efficient Huffman Decoding
- October 4, 2011:
Extract a private key from a Gnu Keyring file
- September 5, 2011:
From Make to Ant to Maven
- July 18, 2011:
A bottom-up look at the Apache configuration file
- July 6, 2011:
Fun with the HTML 5 Canvas Tag
- Jun 16, 2011:
Pain and disfiguration upon all comment spammers
- May 31, 2011:
Use of RSSI and Time-of-Flight Wireless Signal Characteristics for Location Tracking
- May 7, 2011: Implementing SSL
- Apr 24, 2011: Dissecting the GZIP format
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