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Hello HN, I've built signet, a code signing tool that makes it really easy to sign your git commits and arbitrary files such as build outputs. signet uses OpenSSH's key and signatu…

I've been a Virtual Post Mail ( https://www.virtualpostmail.com/ ) customer for 10 years so far and they've been great. Reliable and very quick to respond to support emails on the …

Awesome work, this is a really cool idea and well executed.

I hadn't heard of borg before, but it appears to be a backup program. arc is a file archiver, like tar or zip.

Indeed. One use case I have in mind is using the Shamir Secret Sharing mode to create N backups on separate flash drives stored in diverse locations.

Safari Blocker is great, thanks Luke! Being able to add rules on the fly is really handy.

Conversely, check out Yoyogi park on the Monday after a hanami weekend. The ground is covered in garbage, broken bottles, cans, etc. Or check out the square at Shinbashi station af…

Yeah, Kernel Concepts sells the OpenPGP card in a SIM breakout style too. I really wanted the CryptoStick, looks like they're temporarily about of stock pending the new 2.0 revisio…

Can't comment on trustworthiness but Kernel Concepts sells a nice OpenPGP smartcard developed by Werner Koch, the GnuPG guy. http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products…

keys ( https://github.com/wg/keys ) is the password manager I've always wanted. It's a client/server application with a command line UI, and the server can run on a mobile device s…

The RDRAND circuits perform continual health checks and will signal a error instead of outputting bad data. See section 3.3 of http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digita…

RDRAND can do > 500MB/s when invoked by 8 threads running in parallel: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando... the theoretical maximum is 800MB/s I wrote an…

I'd never seen Threema before yesterday, but they just released an Android app and it's really well done! Great UIs on both platforms, nice security model, and very granular messag…

"For Evernote's consumer product, the current encryption algorithms are chosen more for exportability under the Commerce Department rather than strength, since our software permits…