This is my first open source project that I’ve started and maintained, so I’m pretty excited about it. I was upset at the current offerings of Hashcash for the various MUAs, so I set out to do something about it. You’ve already read on my blog about my solutions for minting and verifying Hashcash tokens [...]
Just five days ago, I blogged about minting Hashcash tokens in Mutt using a Python script (make sure you check that page for any updates to the source if you’re using it). Well today, I finished writing my verification script. It takes some additional changes to your ~/.muttrc, which I’ll outline here, and it requires [...]
Quick post, outlining what I think makes the Unix family of operating systems superior, including “unix-like” operating systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD, and others. Of course, the list isn’t exhaustive- it’s just something I threw together in 10 minutes. The motivation of the post was a discussion in ##unix on Freenode. The command line interface. [...]
Introduction I wanted to used Hashcash with Mutt, for nothing more than a curiosity to see if it generates any discussion, and to see if people notice. Further, I’m a big crypto advocate, and while Hashcash isn’t exactly crypto, it’s highly related to it, and uses it. Regardless, I wanted to see if I could [...]
I’ve been tasked at work with shredding drives. Not physically, mind you, but digitally. Usually, I grab a copy of the latest version of Knoppix, boot up, pull up a terminal, and grab GNU Shred. Something like: shred -n 3 -v /dev/sda It works well enough. However, it doesn’t display a real useful progress meter, [...]
I’m actually surprised that I haven’t blogged about this before, seeing as though I use it daily. Further, seeing as though I seem to be on a security blogging trip, it only seems fitting to discuss OTR support in Bitlbee now. OTR, or Off-The-Record messaging is the ability to have encrypted and authenticated communication with [...]
I just finished reading an article on Ars Technica titled “Ask Ars: Where should I store my passwords?“. There was a specific paragraph that I took issue with, which in turn prompted me to write this post. It is: “Still, it would take thousands of years to crack an 8-character password when checking both small [...]
So today, I received an email from one of the readers of this blog. He wanted to get into OpenPGP with his email, and asked if I could help him get started with some tutorials, how-tos, etc. I was flattered that he valued my opinion. So, I responded to each of his questions and discussion [...]
I just created a PGP/GPG key signing policy. I’ve never set one before, so there it is. The motivation is three-fold: I want raise awareness for encrypted email, I want to expand the Web of Trust and I want to sign keys. I believe we’ve gotten too anal retentive about the rituals of signing each [...]
