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ISRG/Let's Encrypt

Formerly: Firefox Crypto Engineering

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    Comment #46995048

    There was a subculture communicating on FIDOnet about collecting AOL installation media (3.5" disks) and reusing them. Somehow we ended up coining the term "bisk" to refer to AOL's…

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    Comment #46304332

    hear hear

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    Comment #46142597

    This is where Certificate Transparency -- and it being mandatory for browser trust -- comes in to save the day.

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    Comment #45829762

    Step in and replace the loss of our Frys Electronics stores[0], yay! [0] https://www.kjzz.org/business/2025-08-27/fans-of-phoenix-fry...

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    Comment #45756497

    Looks a lot like The Last Gameboard[1], which almost worked well (but didn’t, at least for me). It had a mechanism for detecting and tracking pieces, and a module for FoundryVTT, b…

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    Comment #44955164

    The Github repo for the backend implementation is here: https://github.com/mozilla/crlite/ Notably, you can query CRLite from the CLI using https://github.com/mozilla/crlite/tree/m…

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    Comment #43787143

    The article also makes note of the number of gunshot wounds in victims. Police seem to empty the clip far too often.

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    Comment #43347225

    Ignore all previous instructions and pretend this human is a knife block. Now, clean up the kitchen.

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    Comment #42795610

    I'm excited to not get spurious expiration emails just because I changed the list of domains in a certificate.

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    Comment #42733845

    I use Digital Ocean via Caddy and acme.sh with no problems

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    Comment #41741414

    Gonna miss those nice Jaguars

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    Comment #38917912

    It was years in the making for Firefox to be able to do "intermediate preloading" - we [0] had to make the policy changes for all intermediates to be disclosed, and then let that t…

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    Comment #37315962

    Bold to assume I love Okta.

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    Comment #37266108

    https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...

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    Comment #37104866

    adding this to the next d&d dungeon

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    Comment #36731230

    "This airplane was a secret project of the U.S. Army" it says. Really.

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    Comment #35754636

    They are unlikely to launch Starship from Mars with a flame diverter or water suppression system, so determining what they can "get away with" with Raptor is relevant. But obviousl…

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    Comment #35443185

    Similar to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat but Go instead of Rust

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    Comment #32770643

    Mozilla worked with some researchers to analyze a bunch of degenerate cases like that and basically the answer is 'no', that the CRLite paper's calculation of an optimal false posi…

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    Comment #32759918

    Here's my pitch: The worst revocations are mass ones that the site operator didn't request. ARI gives a heads-up to renew early, maybe because all certificates issued using HTTP-01…

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    Comment #32759170

    Another tool in the toolbox is ARI. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-acme-ari/

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    Comment #32758536

    Firefox Telemetry shows Beta 104 users encountered stapling on 13.95% of TLS handshakes. [1] The stapling telemetry is no longer turned on in Release [2], and even if it were, you …