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pawal

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About pawal

DNS and crypto stuff. [ my public key: https://keybase.io/pawal; my proof: https://keybase.io/pawal/sigs/jYJ6KJTNu3VkILzDf2ra7j0TRxYo08q8p9OSBVVkGEU ]

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    gonemaster checks the DNS health of a domain by running it through a series of testcases grouped into modules. Each testcase emits log messages that are scored into a numeric resul…

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    Comment #48710224

    The author merely suggests that those 29 or in someway trusted by a lot of people to handle DNS queries. Those 29 also publish information on what properties the service have. If y…

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    Comment #48707464

    Done, enjoy: https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html#speedtest (DoH only)

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    Comment #48707432

    Author here: Because of their continuing work on privacy, https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-privacy-examination-2026/ However, as a EU citizen, I would not trust them anyway because…

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    Comment #48707376

    Author here, I added this now: https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide2.html#speedtest Only works for DoH though.

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    Comment #45517581

    Interesting, but a Vectrex without a vector display is like a fish without water.

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    Comment #40244989

    It seems like the development of SoftHSM2 has stalled quite a bit. There is still a lot of user interest, but very little action in terms of management of the project. There are ma…

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    Comment #37724511

    Not if you want to deliver e-mail to Google, they recently added this as a requirement.

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    Comment #28167199

    Me too. Still have a couple of books (in Swedish) on the subject. I don't have the heart to throw them away.

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    Comment #28105136

    Yes, export regulations were heavy back then. To have proper SSL in your Netscape, you had to import this patch file from Australia. And then we had this whole Crypto Wars thing go…

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    Comment #28092760

    There are a number of different tools for writing internet-drafts. See here: https://tools.ietf.org/tools/

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    Comment #27591203

    The downside of this is that the lookup is done online, and every use of an individual is tracked per service. This is not something that I am comfortable with.

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    Comment #19980720

    Yes, I use it often. My Debian installations use Tor for installing updates. Just as an example.

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    Comment #19365876

    In practice internal only DNS names will always leak to external resolvers in one way or another. Pretending otherwise is very naive.

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    Comment #19345467

    The problem I have with ^B is that the b is too far away from ctrl. A is much closer, which makes it a much faster one-hand press.

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    Comment #19206577

    You should probably be more freaked out by your phone. It collects this data by default and sends it to Google or Apple. I think that Google still has an API for querying their dat…