Our deprecation plan for the SHA-1 algorithm in the public Web, first announced in 2015, is drawing to a close. Today a team of researchers from CWI Amsterdam and Google revealed the first practical collision for SHA-1, affirming the insecurity of the algorithm and reinforcing our judgment that... [read more]
Published 2017-02-23
The Phoenix DevOps Meetup has asked me to do a walk-through of how to encrypt a website using Let’s Encrypt for their February meetup. I don’t believe this talk will be recorded, but for any locals who want to discuss PKI, I’ll be available after.
[read more]Published 2016-12-19
The electoral college has legitimized an agenda that seeks to tell many of my friends and colleagues that they are not welcome in America. That they are only to be tolerated in the shadows. That denigrating them is acceptable national discourse, and will be rewarded with prestige.
[read more]Published 2016-11-10
Yesterday Let’s Encrypt reached a new milestone: the unique set of all fully-qualified domain names in the currently-unexpired certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt is now 10,022,446.
[read more]Published 2016-09-30
I’m training to be able to fly in clouds and other poor visibility situations. Part of the requirements for this “Instrument Rating” is to fly cross-country, on instrument rules, and do instrument landings at three airports, a task I undertook last Friday
[read more]Published 2016-09-08
On a mission to solve communications security issues for the whole Internet. That, and drink coffee.
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