Adobe has become something of a household name. Founded in 1982, the Mountain View company is best known for creating the ubiquitous image-editing software Photoshop. With decades of growth, and a fervent group of product evangelists that rely on Adobe's products for their livelihoods, any smart business owner would ask the obvious question: what could I learn from Adobe's success? Let's take a look at their premiere piece of software to answer that.
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First released in 1990, Photoshop has become the top image-editing, and graphics-creation tool for a variety of industries. Graphic designers, visual effects artists, game creators, and many others rely on Photoshop's sophisticated suite of tools and complex algorithms to rapidly make alterations to images. When the Merriam-Webster dictionary begins to define Photoshop as a transitive verb, you know the software has some real influence.
Grassroots Evangelism
Seeing this success spurred Adobe into recruiting some of the top designers in the field, and turned them into product evangelists. These are people who used Photoshop and its accompanying software packages, collectively known as Creative Suite, in their careers on a daily basis. With this small army of cheerleaders, Adobe set out to influence and educate other graphics professionals. Even people who considered themselves proficient at their craft could stand to learn a thing or three from these Photoshop masters. Having such highly visible members of an industry touting the benefits of Adobe software, further cemented their place as the go-to brand when you needed quality image-editing done.
Moving their Software Online
Technology is always changing, and Adobe realized this when they decided to move their entire Creative Suite catalog online and offer it as a cloud-based subscription service. Pushing everything to the cloud offered numerous benefits to both Adobe and its customers, chief among them a lower cost. Prior to this shift, the full Creative Suite collection cost thousands of dollars. Moving to a subscription model dropped that to under a hundred per month. The software is also easier to update, and can painlessly interface with other online applications. Adobe's usage of an application optimized storage for the hosting of their star software package was a brilliant move that benefits both customers and Adobe itself.
Smart usage of online storage solutions is critical if you run a business that deals with large sets of data. For Adobe, it was their entire Creative Suite. Cloud storage solutions could confer on your business the same benefits they conferred to Adobe. The question you should now ask yourself is: can cloud storage solutions do for my business what they did for Adobe?
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Among the various functions that the ike-scan can perform, it discovers hosts of IKE and also fingerprints these using a back-off pattern for retransmission. Here are some more of its functions:
Discovers:
The scan determines particular hosts that are running IKE within the IP range provided. This action is a result of the displaying hosts that respond to the ike-scan requests for IKE.
Fingerprint:
This set up helps in determining what kind of IKE implementation in network security the hosts are using. In some of the cases, it also determines the software versions that they are running. This is carried forward in dual ways. First way is done by fingerprinting with UDP back-off that involves the procedure of recording the times of the packets of IKE response from the hosts aimed, and also comparing the retransmission pattern with the existing patterns. The second procedure is done by fingerprinting with the Vendor ID that compares payloads of Vender ID from the VPN servers with the patterns of vendor id already known.
User Enumeration:
This works for some VPN systems where valid usernames of VPN are discovered.
Transform Enumeration:
It finds out which transform characteristics are allowed on the VPN server for Phase-1 of IKE. For example, hash algorithm, encryption algorithm, etc.
Key cracking that is pre-shared:
The ike-scan performs brute-forced cracking of passwords or offline dictionary for IKE Aggressive mode which has Pre-shared Key authentication. This one uses ike-scan in order to obtain parameters like hash and psk-crack, which in turn is a part of package of ike-scan, and perform the cracking.
There is a detailed description of the concept of retransmission back off fingerprinting in the fingerprinting paper of UDP back off that is supposed to be included in the kit of ike-scan as UDP Backoff Fingerprinting Paper.
The specified program sends requests Main Mode or Aggressive Mode, also known as IKE phase-1 to the specified hosts and displays the responses it receives. The ike-scan works with the retransmission and retries with back off to cope up with the loss of pocket. It also confines the amount of bandwith consumed by the IKE packets that are outbound. IKE is actually the Internet Key Exchange protocol that is the key authentication mechanism and exchange used by IPsec. Almost all the modern systems of VPN implement IPsec and most of the IPsec VPNs use IKE to enable key exchange. The Main Mode is the mode among many others for phase-1 of the IKE exchange. The other mode that is defined in similar way is the aggressive mode. The main mode is preferable implemented as far as the RFC 2409 section 5 is concerned. This proves that all implementations of IKE are expected to support the main mode. Many of them also support the Aggressive Mode.
Building and Installing
Firstly, to obtain the project source code you need to Run git clone https://github.com/royhills/ike-scan.gitRun cd ike-scan to enter source directory
Then to b able o install a viable ./configure file Run autoreconf
Run ./configure or ./configure --with-openssl to use the OpenSSL libraries
For building the project Run make
Run make check to verify that everything works as expected
Run make install to install
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Maegan Pulman is a freelance IT consultant and technology enthusiast. She is active in local and international IT events and is always on the lookout for the latest industry trends.
One of the most important components when it comes to website designs is the form. You may require different types of forms such as contact forms, registration forms, complaint forms etc. The look and the usability of these forms are an utmost necessity because these are the direct pathways through which your visitors or customers interact with you. Here, I am going to discuss some of the efficient jQuery plugins which can enhance the functionality of the html forms you have designed.
1. Fancy Web Form Designer by Formoid.com
With a collection of beautiful skins and fancy colour schemes, Formoid helps in creating responsive forms compatible with desktops, mobile and laptops. In addition to the standard fields, you can effectively add the advanced fields such as email address, website URL, file upload and captcha fields etc. This also supports the HTML 5 form validation.
2. Fancyform by Lutrasoft
Fancyform can help you transform your HTML elements into a more customized form. You can apply the styling to the different elements such as the input:checkbox, input:radio, textarea and input:file etc. You can use the custom slide bar in the text area so as to make it more readable.
3. jQuery Autosize by Jack Moore
This impressive plugin lets the users to type their text without worrying about the text area. The plugin will automatically adjust the height of the text area according to the text input.
4. jQuery Super Labels by Remy Bach
Using this plugin, you can position the labels in any way you want. You can choose to apply Super Labels to any of the specified fields you want.
5. File Style Plugin for jQuery by Shaun Inman
The File Style plugin lets you style your file inputs. You can style the filename field as either a text field or an image.
6. jAutochecklist
If you are looking forward to develop a user-friendly HTML list in your website designs, then jAutochecklist is the perfect solution. This provides the users with a friendly user interface and thus enhances the level of interaction. The data in the list can be loaded dynamically from a remote source. The plugin is compatible with the mobile devices too.
7. Selectik by Ivan Kubrakov
This jQuery plugin is easy to use and helps in the generation of custom select form elements. These elements can further be customized with CSS. The key features of Selectik include smart positioning, button control and Esc control etc.
8. Uniform
The Uniform plugin helps you to smartly control the look of your form elements. You can apply the custom themes over the standard styles. Uniform lets you to set different form themes to be displayed in the different browsers. In case of complex website designs, you can also use multiple themes on a single page.
9. jQuery Checkbox
If you want to add style to your check boxes, jQuery Checkbox is a valuable plugin to use. This plugin works with the radio buttons too. As the plugin supports label hovering, the corresponding checkbox is highlighted whenever you hover over a label element.
10. Fancy Fields
Fancy Fields allows you to customize each and every element of your HTML form such as the check box, radio button, select tab, text fields, text area, submit and the reset buttons. You have the option to choose from different types of themes available.
About The Author
Sandy is a blogger working as an Internet marketing professional in a web designs firm and specialising in SEO and social media. His sole focus is on creating awareness about how to enhance the web presence by attracting the search engine traffic.
