confidential-information

What are some best practices for handling sensitive information?

I'm currently creating an application for a customer that will allow them to automatically bill their customers credit cards. I'm curious as to what are some best practices to safely store and access the credit card information, and for that matter, any other sensitive information, like social security numbers, account numbers and so ...

What's the best way to deploy an image servlet to maintain confidentiality of images?

I have a servlet for allowing manipulations of images - zoom, etc. What's the best way to deploy this service so that the users of the servlet keep their images confidential? I assume this means they need to run the servlet on their own servers rather than on mine. Is there any other way of providing this service to them? ...

How to calculate mean based on number of votes/scores/samples/etc?

For simplicity say we have a sample set of possible scores {0, 1, 2}. Is there a way to calculate a mean based on the number of scores without getting into hairy lookup tables etc for a 95% confidence interval calculation? dreeves posted a solution to this here: How can I calculate a fair overall game score based on a variable number o...

Confidentiality agreement for a specification

We agreed some time ago that a company produce a specification for a piece of internal software. Until they produce the spec, we won't agree to the contract for the implementation. They have sent us a confidentiality agreement to sign, covering the "program specification". I have a few questions: Is this normal practice? Since the do...

How to use XPSDocument to open a XPS file that is contained in a WPF application as a binary resource?

Hi folks, Basically I have embedded a xps file in a WPF application containing a XPSDocument Viewer as a resource. On loading the application, I just want the document viewer to display that embedded resource. public Page1() { InitializeComponent(); XpsDocument doc = new XpsDocument(SmartsysBrowser.Properties.Resources.test1, File...