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@derrickorama
derrickorama / make-cert-and-pk.md
Last active March 11, 2025 20:10
Extracting certs/private keys from certificates that disable private key exporting

Situation

  • I have to use a Windows client to install a certificate (say via the Magnum PKI Client)
  • I cannot export the private key for this certificate
  • I am a Linux user that needs to have the cert and private key

Solution (steps)

Install/export certificate using Windows VM

@christianroman
christianroman / test.py
Created May 30, 2013 16:02
Bypass Captcha using 10 lines of code with Python, OpenCV & Tesseract OCR engine
import cv2.cv as cv
import tesseract
gray = cv.LoadImage('captcha.jpeg', cv.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSCALE)
cv.Threshold(gray, gray, 231, 255, cv.CV_THRESH_BINARY)
api = tesseract.TessBaseAPI()
api.Init(".","eng",tesseract.OEM_DEFAULT)
api.SetVariable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
api.SetPageSegMode(tesseract.PSM_SINGLE_WORD)
tesseract.SetCvImage(gray,api)
print api.GetUTF8Text()
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 17, 2025 12:17
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD