Summary Report Now Posted of W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet (STRINT)” Workshop (Featured Blog)

Given that I’ve written here about the original call for papers for the W3C/IAB “Strengthening The Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)” Workshop and then subsequently that the STRINT submitted papers were publicly available, I feel compelled…

Join The VUC Podcast Live On Friday, May 2, To Talk TLS/SSL And The Need For “More Crypto”

Why do we need “more crypto” everywhere? How can we get more people using TLS (SSL) in applications and services?     If you are interested in this topic and want to discuss it with others, please do join the “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)” conference call this Friday, May 2, 2014, at 12 noon US Read more…

New DNSSEC Deployment Maps for April 28, 2014, Now Available

I’ve made a couple of updates recently to our DNSSEC Deployment Maps section of the site. First, I updated the page to display the most recent deployment maps from yesterday, April 28, 2014.  The big change from previous maps is that Australia now appears in blue as the folks there have signed the .AU top-level Read more…

TDYR #0148 – What Do You Do On Your First Work Day After Vacation?

TDYR #0148 – What Do You Do On Your First Work Day After Vacation? by Dan York

FIR #753 – 4/28/14 – For Immediate Release

Interview coming with DomainSkate’s Howard Greenstein and David Mitnick; Quick News: SEC guidelines for social networks during proxy fights, 3D printers print 10 houses in 24 hours, Two NFL teams post 2014 schedules on SnapChat, the LinkedIn crowd deco…

TDYR #147 – It Is Hard To Podcast When You Cannot Speak

TDYR #147 – It Is Hard To Podcast When You Cannot Speak by Dan York

Wired: It’s Time To Encrypt The Entire Internet

Is it time to “dump the plain text Internet” and encrypt everything everywhere? That’s the main thrust of an article by Klint Finley in Wired last week: “It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet“. As he writes: The Heartbleed bug crushed our faith in the secure web, but a world without the encryption software that Read more…

CloudFlare Enabling IPv6 For All Customers

Buried in a post last month about Martin Levy joining CloudFlare was this gem: CloudFlare is enabling IPv6 by default for ALL of their customers! If you are not aware of CloudFlare, the are a “content delivery network” (or “content distribution network”… either way it is “CDN”) that takes your website and makes it available through their Read more…

Call For Participation – ICANN 50 DNSSEC Workshop on 25 June In London

Are you planning to attend the ICANN 50 meeting in London in June?  If so, would you like to share your experience with deploying DNSSEC?  As noted below, we are seeking proposals for presentations to be given during the DNSSEC Workshop that will happen on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, during the ICANN week. The full Read more…

FIR #752 – 4/21/14 – For Immediate Release

Interview with JerryGarcia.com developers is up; Quick News: US Court says blogs are media, General Mills backpedals on new online terms of service, LinkedIn releases Slideshare app, Americans are optimistic about upcoming technology advances; Ragan pr…