Re: [Treebase-devel] harvesting

[Roderic P. <r....@bi...>]

I'm reading this thread with a growing sense of horror. In this day and age there is no reason to store user passwords, see Jeff Atwood's http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/12/the-dirty-truth-about-web-passwords.html (and http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/11/your-internet-drivers-license.html ).

There seems to be something seriously wrong with TreeBASE's architecture that it times out generating NEXML files. Apart from caching the output (+1), perhaps intermediate views could be created to cache key elements of the data structure to support creating NEXML files, rather than generating the whole thing from scratch.

The issue with NEXML continues to be a source of grief for me, especially when I ended up with out of date and broken NEXML (which I'd cached locally to avoid hitting TreeBASE). When I harvest for projects like the TreeBASE browser I pause between requests, but still get time outs.

At some point TreeBASE needs a radical rethink. A nonSQL document store would make life so much easier, as would cleanly separating the data entry stuff from the data storage and output.

Regards

Rod

On 2 Feb 2012, at 22:44, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

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> On Feb 2, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Rutger Vos wrote:
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>> I had no idea we were under attack by brute-force rainbow tables.
> 
> That's what an intruder would use if they got ahold of our (encrypted) user/password table. (For obvious reasons, one doesn't have to go there if the password isn't encrypted.)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
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> 	-hilmar
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