Few articles could better sum up the media and intellectual landscape of 2022 than this one published late last month in The Guardian: “Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix.” The subheadline: “A show with a truly preposterous … Read more
Today, Let’s Encrypt announced that they are enabling an extension to DNS CAA records known as ACME-CAA (RFC 8657). This came as a surprise to me, but a very pleasant one, since I wrote the ACME-CAA specification back in 2016 … Read more
This letter was originally published in our 2022 annual report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt … Read more
Update: This post got a sequel, Breaking our latin-1 assumptions. I’ve seen misconceptions about Unicode crop up regularly in posts discussing it. One very common misconception I’ve seen is that code points have cross-language intrinsic meaning. It usually comes up … Read more
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What is CockroachDB under the hood? Take a look at its go.mod and notice a number of dependencies that do a lot of work: a PostgreSQL wire protocol implementation, a storage layer, a Raft implementation for distributed consensus. And not … Read more
On April 13, 2022, the Real World Crypto steering committee presented the Max Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography to Let’s Encrypt. The following is the speech delivered by our Executive Director, Josh Aas upon receiving the award. We’d like to … Read more
Is xmpp any good? Also, let’s write a client in tcl, maybe Foreword: changing times How protocols think, or why messages are lost Making XML worse takes talent, or an overview of some XMPP ideas XML namespaces, verbosity and stupidity … Read more
On April 13, 2022, the Real World Crypto steering committee presented the Max Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography to Let’s Encrypt. The following is the speech delivered by our Executive Director, Josh Aas upon receiving the award. We’d like to … Read more
After working with Bash and Shellcheck for a few months, I noticed I could improve my code quality by making it compliant with the Shell Style Guide by Google [0]. While working on that, I thought some aspects of this … Read more