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Whatever crossed my mindby Ian Qvist

// performance · security · data structures · algorithms

Whatever crossed my mind

Notes, experiments and ideas from a life spent building software.

Latest The history of gperf Tracing the origins of gperf through historical documents and source code, from Perfect and its early authors to the GNU tool. Algorithms / Performance Escape the crab mentality Recognizing crab mentality in teams and communities, and considering how to escape patterns that hold others back. Strings from a security perspective How .NET strings can expose secrets in memory, and the tradeoffs of SecureString, unmanaged memory, and the Data Protection API. Security / C#

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2025

  1. The history of gperf Algorithms / Performance

2019

  1. Escape the crab mentality
  2. Strings from a security perspective Security / C#
  3. FindDupes 1.1 released C#

2018

  1. Beware of BrotliStream in .NET Core 2.1 C# / Performance
  2. Performance measurement mistakes in academic publications Performance
  3. Reducing the size of self-contained .NET Core applications C# / Performance

2017

  1. Testing 36,200 DNS servers Networking / Security

2016

  1. Secure hashing of passwords Security
  2. The problem with network address translation Networking

2014

  1. .NET compression libraries benchmark C# / Performance

2012

  1. Analysis of the Gamigo hashes Security
  2. The power of Wolfram Alpha – now in a .NET API C# / Networking
  3. A complete guide to encrypting and signing emails Security / Networking
  4. Most used passwords visualized #2 Security
  5. Analysis of leaked MilitarySingles.org passwords Security
  6. Analysis of leaked NASA passwords Security
  7. Power-Blog.com password leak analysis Security
  8. Analysis of 1,051 phished Xbox accounts Security
  9. Analysis of the XboxLiveClans leak Security