Sunday, 03 July 2005

Got my Semester 1 results today. Scraped through yet another finance subject and got a Distinction for Software Construction. I think it's time to bid the Faculty of Economics and Commerce adieu, as much as I like them and all.

I think Semester 2 is going to really hurt, with two Computer Science subjects. The department's love of multiple lectures per course per week really sucks for people working full-time. I can see myself having to come and go from campus up to three times a day on at least two days a week.

It troubles me that our country's supposed peak academic institution can't get its processes in order to ensure that an SSL certificate is renewed within a reasonable time before its expiry:

Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number: 4088675 (0x3e6363)
        Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=ZA, ST=Western Cape, L=Cape Town, O=Thawte Consulting cc, OU=Certification Services Division, CN=Thawte Server CA/emailAddress=server-certs@thawte.com
        Validity
            Not Before: Jun 29 07:20:17 2004 GMT
            Not After : Jul  2 00:22:40 2005 GMT
        Subject: C=AU, ST=Australian Capital Territory, L=Canberra, O=Australian National University, OU=Division of Information, CN=anubis.anu.edu.au
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
            RSA Public Key: (512 bit)
                Modulus (512 bit):
                    00:ce:1a:b7:80:da:a2:93:be:a2:0d:3f:7f:5c:70:
                    9e:de:e1:88:8d:aa:d6:e2:42:9f:73:94:7a:92:5c:
                    1f:db:33:d2:6d:c9:6f:51:f7:a1:b0:c7:50:99:58:
                    81:c9:13:3d:ac:8a:2e:f7:b8:3f:a0:2e:9b:95:97:
                    ef:7a:8f:72:ed
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Extended Key Usage: 
                TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client Authentication
            X509v3 CRL Distribution Points: 
                URI:http://crl.thawte.com/ThawteServerCA.crl

            Authority Information Access: 
                OCSP - URI:http://ocsp.thawte.com

            X509v3 Basic Constraints: critical
                CA:FALSE
    Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption
        c9:1a:1e:f2:b5:87:26:6b:45:2d:2b:3c:08:de:f7:98:35:6c:
        52:90:a6:ff:21:f7:40:3e:db:21:fd:30:6f:dc:b2:64:94:45:
        41:2e:0b:b8:9f:6c:37:f7:94:7b:22:05:37:b3:68:96:1e:18:
        88:9d:c0:7e:1a:93:fb:27:0d:ce:9f:3d:f8:ef:6f:c0:68:2f:
        76:2c:8e:e8:6e:22:51:10:92:f2:8d:86:a5:7b:0f:a7:a8:3d:
        44:9f:9c:39:02:21:84:3c:06:82:ff:ed:26:0f:1c:b2:36:37:
        08:0a:ff:0a:60:eb:20:8d:9e:44:e6:de:13:da:67:f3:79:30:
        1f:80