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IETF113 Hackathon Project

March 20, 2022

This post begins a daily blog, live from IETF113 in Vienna Austria, March 19-25, 2022 (first in-person meeting after six remote-only meetings during …

Debian over HTTPS

December 8, 2021

Debian’s package manager apt has a time-tested method of securely providing packages from the network built on OpenPGP signatures. Even though …

Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello

November 30, 2021

As part of the DEfO project, we have been working on accelerating the development Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) as standardized by the IETF. ECH is the …

New insights into clean analytics

March 2, 2021

There is a giant problem with the “collect it all” status quo that pervades on the Internet, this has been clear for a long time. Tracking …

Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us

February 18, 2021

Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …

Easy translation workflows and the risks of translating in the cloud

June 8, 2020

Crowdsourced translation has opened up software and websites to whole new languages, regions, and uses. Making translating easier has brought in more …

Onion Browser Release 2.6 Tutorial

June 2, 2020

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about the best practices to browse the web securely on iOS using Onion Browser Release 2.6 and the Tor …

On the classification of tracking

May 20, 2020

This position paper tries to outline a framework for defining trackers in smart phones and lists mechanisms for identifying them. It hopes to serve as …

The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps

April 9, 2020

There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …

MASQUE Review

February 25, 2020

MASQUE is set of related IETF drafts for specifying flexible proxying built into a standard webserver. It is meant to be deployed on a server that is …