Category: privacy
Aug
23
Getting a Let's Encrypt certificate without root on a cPanel domain
system, hacks, open source, privacyI'm a big fan of my friends and colleagues at [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/), an effort to make it easier to encrypt the web by offering web encryption certificates for free, for ever.
At first, free Let's Encrypt (LE) certificates were no… more »
Jun
11
So what if you don't want the NSA to see a particular file or email? If they're really wiretapping the whole goddamn internet, how can you keep secrets?
Well, you have to encrypt them. And the standard for strong encryption is PGP -- [Pretty Good Pri… more »
Oct
01
My first blog post as part of my new job just went up.
In case you missed it, I'm the new senior staff technologist at the [Center for Democracy and Technology](https://www.cdt.org/). In addition to research and tech. translation, we also aim to put… more »
Aug
01
The NTIA today [released notes from the first MSH meeting](http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2012/homework-assignment-privacy-stakeholders) on consumer privacy today. However, I couldn't easily understand the format they reported [their data (PDF)](http://ww… more »
Jul
07
Stanford's crypto group has just released a neat piece of research: [Flash Proxies](https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/).
The idea is very cool: create a ton of censorship-circumvention nodes directly in web browsers and then coordinate traffic b… more »