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X.509 absolutely lives on -- https://www.itu.int/rec/t-rec-x.509 last update was October 2024. However WebPKI uses PKIX which is fairly stubbornly stuck on RFC5280. On the ITU side…

From the ICANN site, 154 gTLD agreements have been terminated. I'm not sure how many due to non-payment, but https://domainincite.com/30105-icann-to-terminate-five-new-g... indicat…

AWS has stated that there is a "Nitro Card for Instance Storage"[0][1] which is a NVMe PCIe controller that implements transparent encryption[2]. I don't have access to an EC2 inst…

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The data in this post seems behind. https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales shows that the prices have spiked to more than $50 per IP

A couple of years ago I ran into the same confusion of the "TeletexString"/"T61String" data type in ASN.1. After going down the rabbit hole of what is T.61 and trying to map it to …

I put together a historical list of TLDs that had been removed in 2017: https://github.com/pzb/TLDs/blob/master/removed/rmtlds.csv . It overlaps with the early part of this list. .…

http://www.simulatechnology.com/Product/Detail/uid/5de9347e-... exists, at least to some extent. It uses the aforementioned chip.

Cypress has a chip out for this: https://www.cypress.com/products/ez-usb-hx3pd-usb-31-gen-2-h... It has one USB Type-C in with 3 USB Type-C out plus 4 USB Standard-A out. One of th…

You can do 3840x2160@60Hz (and 24bpp/8bpc) over USB Type-C on newer displays. DisplayPort Alt Mode over USB-C using DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 can support 4K + USB 3 Gen2 on one cable. ht…

I've been working on a similar system that is in the process of being adopted by at least one standards group ( https://github.com/cabforum/documents ). I would strongly recommend …

Unfortunately the "distributing a modified version of an open source project under that project's name" can be problematic from a trademark perspective. This has come up many times…

It is important to note that "Dynamo" and "DynamoDB" are two very different things that happen to share many of the same letters. DynamoDB is not Dynamo.

I think that many newer vendors of certificates are following this model. Let's Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager both simply have certificates with names. One name, two names, 5…

Both Smart Cards and HSMs can (and frequently do) contain FIPS validated cryptographic modules and can be USB devices. What seems to set them apart is content capacity and speed. A…

The author brings up many reasonable points but seems to mix issues of HSMs & Smart Cards not providing a generic open hardware platform with possible security problems of a platfo…

I agree 100%, but they don't have an AP + CloudKey + Security Gateway in one unit. That is what many people effectively want for home use.

When encoding those characters in UTF-8, you will never end up with 0x2F as a byte. On of the properties of UTF-8 is that bytes with the high bit not set (e.g. 0x0 to 0x7e) never a…

How do you do that? Where do you draw the line? Basically every company I've worked for has, at some point and to varying levels, taken government funding. It could be buying off t…

From first hand experience, big companies are hiring constantly from overseas to the US. If you can pass the interview, they will figure out how to legally get you on payroll. If y…