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From Quora: Will Linux incorporate tcpcrypt?

Posted on June 3, 2011 by sqs

Someone on Quora just asked: “Will Linux incorporate tcpcrypt?”. I posted a response over there: I have been working on and off with tcpcrypt for about a year. I believe that if someone puts in the time to polish the … Continue reading →

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What I’ve finished reading, Jan-May 2011

Posted on May 30, 2011 by sqs

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will … Continue reading →

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Reading “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” by David Eagleman

Posted on May 30, 2011 by sqs

Just started reading Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. I heard about the book from an interesting New Yorker profile of him. I’ll update this post when (or if) I finish reading the book. Update (May 31): … Continue reading →

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Python 3.3 patch for TLS-SRP support

Posted on April 27, 2011 by sqs

I just posted a patch for Python 3.3 to add TLS-SRP support (Issue #11943). This patch adds support for TLS-SRP (RFC 5054) to Python ssl.SSLSocket, _ssl.c, http, and urllib. TLS-SRP lets a client and server establish a mutually authenticated SSL … Continue reading →

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TLS-SRP patch for Apache 2 mod_ssl

Posted on April 17, 2011 by sqs

I just posted a patch for TLS-SRP support in Apache 2 mod_ssl on the wiki and as ASF Bugzilla #51075.

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Updated Steffen Schulz’s NSS patch for TLS-SRP support

Posted on April 16, 2011 by sqs

I updated Steffen Schulz’s NSS patch for TLS-SRP support and posted it to Bugzilla #405155. NSS (Network Security Services) is a Mozilla library that provides SSL and crypto routines to Firefox, Chrome, and lots of other apps. I modified Steffen … Continue reading →

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TLS-SRP in Chrome announcement

Posted on April 7, 2011 by sqs

I just posted an in-progress patch that adds TLS-SRP support to Chrome over at the Chromium code review site. I also posted a Chromium-discuss message announcing my progress. To install it yourself, see the TLS-SRP in Chrome wiki page.

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Patch: RFC 5054-compliant TLS-SRP support for TLS Lite

Posted on April 4, 2011 by sqs

I submitted a patch to TLS Lite that updates its TLS-SRP support to comply with RFC 5054. Read the email message to tlslite-users or download the the patch (tlslite+tls-srp-rfc5054.patch). I’ve also applied this patch to my tlslite git repository.

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TLS-SRP patch (probably) accepted into OpenSSL 1.0.1

Posted on March 25, 2011 by sqs

Looks like TLS-SRP will be in OpenSSL 1.0.1. Tom Wu’s patch at http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20484 was finally accepted. (HT: Tom Wu and Daniel Stenberg)

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cURL 7.21.4 released, with TLS-SRP support

Posted on February 18, 2011 by sqs

cURL 7.21.4 was just released, with support for TLS-SRP. I submitted the patch for this feature (based on a previous patch by Peter Sylvester). If you are using, or are interested in using, TLS-SRP on the Web, I’d love to … Continue reading →

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