January 2013

Encrypting application configuration files – Java AES

There other day I needed to encrypt certain properties in our XML configuration files. But there were few challanges that needed to be addressed Use existing Java installation !!! How will Master Encryption Key be derives and stored !!! First restriction is very important as it limits us to what algorithmic and key sizes can …

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Population Count using popcnt instruction (counting number of on bits)

Using popcnt instruction found on newer processors to get population count which is number of set bits. Reference : SSE4 Here are couple example inputs with expected output. 0xA = 1010 — > 2 0x3F2 = 1111110010 — > 7 #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h>   using namespace std;   int main() { // 0xA = …

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