March 2014 archive
Mar 03
“Bitcoin and Internet Payment Systems” – IETF 89 Technical Plenary (Live Video Stream Available) (Featured Blog)
Are you interested in learning more about Bitcoin, cybercurrencies and Internet payment systems? On Monday, March 3, 2014, at 5:50pm UTC (London, UK) the Technical Plenary of the 89th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will be streamed live. The presentations during the "technical topic" part of the plenary will include... More...
Mar 02
TDYR #116 – Getting Wirecast Set Up For Livestreaming ISOC@IETF89 Panel On Tuesday
Tonight was spent getting "Wirecast for YouTube" set up for the livestreaming of what should be an interesting "Internet Society @ IETF89" Briefing Panel on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. More info at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-briefing-panel-ietf-89
https://plus.google.com/events/c1gfue9n0i7f5hanjfu6csgeo3g
http://www.telestream.net/wirecastforyoutube/cb-landing.htm
Mar 02
Slides: Why We Need #MoreCrypto / TLS In Applications
Why do we need TLS in applications? Why do we need “more crypto”? Recently Olle Johansson put together a good set of slides that nicely summarize the issue:
Yes! We need more use of TLS! Please help us spread the word!
Mar 01
TDYR #115 – Funky Flight Delays And The First Day In London
TDYR #115 - Funky Flight Delays And The First Day In London by Dan York
Mar 01
Weekend Project: Add DKIM / DNSSEC Verifier To Thunderbird
Here’s an interesting weekend project if you use Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client – add the DKIM Verifier add-on to ensure the validity of signatures on email messages. The connection to DNSSEC is that the public keys for DKIM are stored in DNS and so DNSSEC ensures that you are getting the correct DKIM keys.
This past week Pier Carlo Chiodi published a great tutorial, “Verifying DKIM signatures on Thunderbird with DNSSEC” that walks through the steps of adding the DKIM Verifier add-on to Thunderbird to verify the signature on the message and validate it all via DNSSEC.
As he notes in his text, this tutorials does the DKIM/DNSSEC validation in the client (Thunderbird) while other solutions might do the validation within the email server itself.
Thanks to Pier Carlo Chiodi for writing this tutorial. This is great to see… now we just need similar tutorials for other email clients!
Note: the image in this article is from Pier Carlo Chiodi’s blog post.
