If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of the use of encryption for the sake of privacy. I’ve ranted about PGP and S/MIME, tried to break steganography and complained about the privacy issues I face as a Gmail user. ...
Many of my recent projects have been single-server web applications using TurboGears or Flask that consume a few other services. While I was thinking about challenges like scaling, it occurred to me that I should take a look at OpenStack. I hope this will give me a...
You don’t often stop to think about x.509 and the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that authenticates our Internet connections. Allow me to explain why you should. Transport Layer Security (TLS) uses x.509 certificates to authenticate connections. In your every-day use...
Image by bloggingberlin Your e-mail account is probably the most valuable online account you control. The security of most of your other accounts depends on the security of your e-mail account. (Think I’m wrong? Have you ever recovered a lost password?) For this...
About a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Keeping E-mail Private”. Thinking back over the last five months, my advice seems woefully inadequate. To give the matter of private communications a more proper treatment, I’m going to write a series of...
