Chris Miceli

Now that Windows 10 has launched, I felt that it was time to update the awful Windows 8 DAAP application. The Windows 8 version was a fast port of the much better phone version, but with worse UI. For the Windows 10 version, I decided to put a little...

While creating a website using Web Optimization to handle bundling, I became curious as to what the {version} pattern matched. I couldn't find documentation for this besides what it outlined here:
Digging into the source code here, I was able to find exactly what {version} matches, the C# regex @"(\d+(\s*\.\s*\d+){1,3})(-[a-z][0-9a-z-]*)?". This means it matches:...

When working on the Google Authenticator web page, I realized that I needed to base32 decode the secret given from Google to get to the raw bytes. For those unaware, Base32 encoding is a mechanism to represent arbitrary binary data (1s and 0s) into an...

I was poking around the web cryptography API and noticed how powerful it was. It even includes the ability to perform HMAC-SHA1 via the sign method. That is all you need to create TOTP one time passwords. I've done some work in the past on TOTP and knew...