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I have two open-source projects to deploy a medical imaging application on different platforms. In both of them, I define DICOM validation scenario, and provide steps to test DICOM traffic with TLS. The steps have been working well, until a recent change in Envoy broke the testing, and led me to revisit the test scenario. … Read moreDICOM testing over TLS
In Nov 2020, I created OrthWeb project, a deployment of Orthanc’s server. Orthanc is a DICOM viewer and repo shipped in Docker container. In the deployment project, I use Terraform to provision infrastructure, including a managed PostgreSQL instance, an EC2 instance for docker runtime, and the init script to bring up the web service. I … Read moreSecure web application deployment
[Update] Some security improvement was introduced in may 2021. Here‘s detail. [Update] Here’s the link to the orthweb repository. In this project we introduce a medical imaging web service based on Orthanc, an open-source project of DICOM server, and a pipeline to deploy such server automatically and consistently. We deploy Orthanc on AWS automatically. This … Read moreAutomatic deployment of Orthanc on AWS
Introduction Authentication is used in many protocols (such as LDAP binding) and it usually involves sending password. Given the nature of authentication protocol, its traffic encryption is usually mandatory. Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is introduced to ensure the security during authentication. It is not a single protocol, but rather a framework for authentication … Read moreSASL Authentication Mechanisms
Introduction Originally LDAP only refers to the connectivity protocol to the directory server. This term is being used loosely today and it also refers to the actual directory service that supports and complies with LDAP. LDAP v3 is the current version developed in RFC 2251. A directory is information about some set of entities such … Read moreLightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
What for Someone who I maintain website for realized the bill of a public cloud provider isn’t exactly as expected. The computing resource falls under “free tier” but the disk isn’t. And the cost of disk usage is the surprise. Second, WordPress does a good job building the initial website but requires a hosting EC2 … Read moreMigrate WordPress to static website