Re: [Treebase-devel] harvesting

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Roderic Page <r....@bi...> wrote:

> 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).
>

We are aware of that, which is why we are having this discussion.


> 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 when I ended up with out of date and broken NEXML (which I'd cached locally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.
>

I tend to agree except that I don't see how TreeBASE3.0 is going to get
built by all volunteers. Will you actively contribute?

Rutger


> On 2 Feb 2012, at 22:44, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Rutger Vos wrote:
>
> 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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