The abbreviated title above means "Appreciation for Localization" :)
I wanted to say a word of thanks for the awesome work done by debian localization teams. I speak English, and my other language skills are weak. I'm lucky: most software I use is written by default in a language that I …
Today, i uploaded GnuPG 2.1.0 into debian's experimental suite. It's
built for amd64 and i386 and powerpc already. You can monitor its
progress on the
buildds
to see when it's available for your architecture.
GnuPG 2.1 offers many new and interesting features, but one of the …
I'm replacing my OTR key for XMPP because of heartbleed (see below).
If the plain ASCII text below is mangled beyond verification, you can retrieve a copy of it from my web site that should be able to be verified.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA512OTR Key Replacement for XMPP dkg …We changed the default PGP signatures generated by enigmail in debian from Inline PGP to PGP/MIME last year, and the experiment has gone well enough that we're now using it in jessie and wheezy (where it arrived as part of a security update to make the extension work with …
I've said recently that pervasive surveillance is wrong. I don't think anyone from the NSA should have a leadership position in the development or deployment of Internet communications, because their interests are at odds with the interest of the rest of the Internet. But someone at the NSA is in …
If you maintain software in debian, one of your regular maintenance tasks is checking for new upstream versions, reviewing them, and preparing them for debian if appropriate. One of those steps is often to verify the cryptographic signature on the upstream source archive.
At the moment, most maintainers do the …
OpenPGPv4 fingerprints are made from an SHA-1 digest over the key's public key material, creation date, and some boilerplate. SHA-1 digests are 160 bits in length. The "long key ID" of a key is the last 64 bits of the key's fingerprint. The "short key ID …
This Monday, I attended a workshop on Multi-party Off the Record Messaging and Deniability hosted by the Calyx Institute. The discussion was a combination of legal and technical people, looking at how the characteristics of this particular technology affect (or do not affect) the law.
This is a report-back, since …
Many protocols today allow you to upgrade to TLS from within a cleartext version of the protocol. This often falls under the rubric of "STARTTLS", though different protocols have different ways of doing it.
I often forget the exact steps, and when i'm debugging a TLS connection (e.g. with …
As I mentioned earlier, the information in the documents released by Edward Snowden show a clear pattern of corporate and government abuse of the information networks that are now deeply intertwined with the lives of many people all over the world.
Surveillance is a power dynamic where the party doing …