bracewel

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1. 31.▲
   The Future of the (e)Book(historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk)

   1 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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   Moving to a More Elastic Future: Upcoming Build Infrastructure Migration(blog.travis-ci.com)

   1 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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   Ed Koppel Writes Entire Book About Hackers and Never Spoke to Any Experts(techdirt.com)

   3 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
4. 34.▲
   by bracewel 11y ago

   Many hosting providers are choosing to integrate LE into their products directly so even if you don't get shell access you will still be able to get a cert. As far as I know both Plesk and cPanel are also working on official plugins fo
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   How Not to Measure Latency [pdf](azulsystems.com)

   70 points by bracewel 11y ago|8 comments
6. 36.▲
   by bracewel 11y ago

   >Symantec performed another audit and, on October 12th, announced that they had found >an additional 164 certificates over 76 domains and 2,458 certificates issued for >domains that were never registered. :|
7. 37.▲
   by bracewel 11y ago

   The backend and client are both very large, very different projects that share a small crossover (the ACME protocol) and were written by two different teams. I can't speak exactly to why Python was chosen, but it should be noted this i
8. 38.▲
   by bracewel 11y ago

   The general availability period hasn't begun yet, but you can still sign up for the beta program here -- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15Ucm4A20y2rf9gySCTXD6yoLG6T...
9. 39.▲
   by bracewel 11y ago

   A quick look at all the certificates Let's Encrypt has issued so far can be found using Comodo's CT based crt.sh tool. https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=7395
10. 40.▲
    by bracewel 11y ago

    This is something we entirely plan on doing, in fact we currently submit all issued certificates to a number of CT logs (which can be viewed here https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=7395 ). Unfortunately the best candidat
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    by bracewel 11y ago

    ISRG, the org behind Let's Encrypt, is hiring! -- https://letsencrypt.org/jobs/
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    Let's Encrypt Amendeded TOS for US Govt. Users [pdf](letsencrypt.org)

    2 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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    The internet is run by an unaccountable private company. This is a problem(theguardian.com)

    3 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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    Announcing CloudFlare’s Internet Summit – And How to Get an Invitation(blog.cloudflare.com)

    1 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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    by bracewel 11y ago

    Either wait for the certificate to expire, register a new certificate for the domain with another CA which LE will see and can then be used to prove ownership, or ask the originally issuing CA to revoke the certificate which will remove the
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    by bracewel 11y ago

    Boulder (the CA backend) has two solutions to this problem a. if we know of an already existing certificate for the domain that is being authorized you must prove control over both the server and the key used in the existing certificate b.
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    by bracewel 11y ago

    That's the relatively simple case, but there are a number of corner cases that make the process much more complicated. See https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/pull/97 for a discussion of why this wa
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    by bracewel 11y ago

    The major problem with this is that the IETF validation working group hasn't come up with a definite procedure for deciding what the apex of a domain is, and how to validate control over all subdomains above it yet.
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    EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners(eff.org)

    5 points by bracewel 11y ago|1 comments
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    A stupid simple Go-based DNS testing server(bracewel.net)

    1 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
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    Let's Encrypt support forum(community.letsencrypt.org)

    1 points by bracewel 11y ago|0 comments
22. 52.▲
    by bracewel 11y ago

    The post seems a little confusing, Howl's Moving Castle was in fact written by Diana Wynne Jones 18 years before the Studio Ghibli adaptation.
23. 53.▲
    by bracewel 11y ago

    All the services provided by Let's Encrypt will be completely free, including revocation.
24. 54.▲
    by bracewel 11y ago

    sigh HTTPS mixed content... really?
25. 55.▲
    Building a More Assured Hardware Security Module [pdf](ripe69.ripe.net)

    31 points by bracewel 11y ago|14 comments
26. 56.▲
    by bracewel 12y ago

    also on github: https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/raziel
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    Show HN: Self decrypting scripts using Bourne and gpg(bracewel.net)

    3 points by bracewel 12y ago|1 comments
28. 58.▲
    by bracewel 12y ago

    Side note: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/ is great for Linus smackdowns of the past
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    Show HN: theca – a simple CLI note taking tool in Rust(bracewel.net)

    58 points by bracewel 12y ago|3 comments
30. 60.▲
    by bracewel 12y ago

    Seems like this could be really useful for writing larger packagers, installers or `curl | sh` type scripts...