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jehteh

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About jehteh

Calgary based Canadian consultant specialising in embedded systems design. This includes project architecture, PCB design, prototyping, and real-time firmware in C and C++, as well as various Linux flavours. Professionally, I have experience in power electronics, battery management systems and some large scale industrial mining related systems. Personally, time spent building and tuning a performance combustion engine and various associated design and electronics, as well as tinkering with 3D printing and computer systems.

I can be reached at jonathan.thomson@ivei.ca (professionally) or jt@jonathanthomson.ca (personally).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #36480808

    My concern here is there appears to be a few open issues around Yubikey support - it sounds like it 'might' work as I described but it might not, and I don't have an iPhone to test…

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    Comment #36480729

    I have always assumed 'GNU' pass is more of a colloquial term - possibly because 'pass' rarely results in meaningful results when searching the web, as does 'passwordstore' (althou…

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    Ask HN: Is GNU pass and Yubikey (via NFC) supported on iPhone?

    Hello, I am considering moving from Android to iPhone in the near future. I think the only thing I can't really evaluate easily is whether or not there is support for GNU pass wher…

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    Comment #29582440

    I hope people back up their GPG keys (and test their backups! My subkeys on the yubikey expire annually, forcing me to validate my master key backup at least once a year). Disablin…

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    Comment #29579128

    If you are using GPG keys and have the master key backed up somewhere you can fairly easily use that on an offline machine to add the new key to the full batch of password files wi…

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    Comment #20158356

    Switched from lastpass to gnu pass and storing my private subkeys on a couple of yubikeys has actually worked really well for me (took a few days to get my head around gpg and smar…