teythoon

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Hey Signal Great Encryption Needs Great Authentication(sequoia-pgp.org)
28 points by teythoon 5y ago|1 comments
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Sequoia 1.3(sequoia-pgp.org)
155 points by teythoon 5y ago|17 comments
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Thunderbird, RNP, and the Importance of a Good API(sequoia-pgp.org)
52 points by teythoon 5y ago|4 comments
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by teythoon 5y ago
Yes. Sequoia abstracts over secret-key operations. In fact, the Octopus makes use of keys managed by the gpg-agent using this mechanism. Native support for smart cards and TPMs is planned and being worked on.
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by teythoon 7y ago
We over at Sequoia-PGP, which gets a honorable mention by the OP, are not merely trying to create a new OpenPGP implementation, but to rethink the whole ecosystem. For some of our thoughts on the recent certificate flooding problems, see h
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by teythoon 9y ago
No, it has an startup server (helpfully called startup), since 2015: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/NEWS#n86
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GnuPG Fundraising Rally(gnupg.org)
218 points by teythoon 9y ago|27 comments
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by teythoon 10y ago
Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the Anarchist Bringing us yet another cryptographic island with a single point of failure.
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by teythoon 11y ago
Fault isolation. We're doing it for daemons, we're doing it for web browsers, it is insane we're not doing it for operating system services. I bought a graphic tablet and the first time I plugged it into my laptop the Linux
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by teythoon 11y ago
I know you're just trying to be funny, but I don't think it's funny at all. The Linux kernel undoubtedly many features that the Hurd system lacks, but that is due to the severe lack of manpower of the latter system and the bi
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by teythoon 11y ago
Hurd developer here. I also have high hopes for Guix, and in fact there is a gsoc project to port Guix to the Hurd. Guix tries to empower the user, a goal shared by the Hurd. They are a perfect match. I do not believe that it is easy to p
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by teythoon 11y ago
Hurd developer here. You are spot-on. The Hurd solves a problem today that Linux (and all the other monolithic systems) will never solve: Fault containment.