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Moving Human Blood Around Arizona

I'd never thought about the logistics of moving donated blood around. The actual donation part is known to be a universally good thing to do, but I'd never searched out what happens next until I heard a fellow pilot talk about volunteering to move pl… [read more]

Published 2021-08-06

Design of the CRLite Infrastructure

Firefox is the only major browser that still evaluates every website it connects to whether the certificate used has been reported as revoked. Firefox users are notified of all connections involving untrustworthy certificates, regardless the populari… [read more]

Published 2020-12-01

Auditing the CRLs in CRLite

Since Firefox Nightly is now using CRLite to determine if enrolled websites' certificates are revoked, it's useful to dig into the data to answer why a given certificate issuer gets enrolled or not.… [read more]

Published 2020-11-27

Querying CRLite for WebPKI Revocations

Firefox Nightly is now using CRLite to determine if websites' certificates are revoked — e.g., if the Certificate Authority published that web browsers shouldn't trust that website certificate. Telemetry shows that querying the local CRLite dataset i… [read more]

Published 2020-11-26