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Currently working on https://SSLboard.com, https://SSLcalendar.com, https://QCready.com and https://CatchPhi.sh

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Interests: Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship, DevOps, Digital Nomading

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github.com 2mo ago

Show HN: Send Cloudflare Worker build events to Pushover

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github.com 2mo ago

Show HN: Throwaway – open-source disposable email checker and API

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ezs3.net 5mo ago

Ezs3.net to share S3 access in your team

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chris-hartwig.com 6mo ago

The Good Hallucinations

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qcready.com 8mo ago

Scan PQC TLS for a whole domain, Free

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qcready.com 8mo ago

Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography TLS?

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sslcalendar.com 8mo ago

Show HN: SSL Certificate Expiration in Calendar App

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sslboard.com 1y ago

How Do You Track SSL Certs? We Built a Calendar View

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sslboard.com 1y ago

Ante-mortem of an expiring certificate at X/Twitter

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www.coindesk.com 4y ago

EU parliament passes privacy-busting crypto rules

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cognitiontoday.com 7y ago

Emotional Regulation Skills

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dockerswarm.rocks 7y ago

Docker Swarm Rocks

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: TLSproxy – automatic Let's Encrypt proxy

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www.geeo.io 9y ago

Show HN: Geeo.io – launching today, with a Saint Patrick's themed demo

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medium.com 9y ago

Geeo.io, a new reactive geo database

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medium.com 9y ago

From idea to product in 7 days

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ezcp.io 9y ago

Show HN: Ezcp.io – open source CLI to copy files between 2 machines

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medium.com 9y ago

A paradigm shift in Geolocation

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medium.com 10y ago

How's your SSL security doing?

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sslping.com 10y ago

Show HN: SSLPing – two seconds to test your SSL servers' security

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www.clanofthecloud.com 10y ago

Backend for games goes essentially free

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

I've come to doubt the AI singularity apocalypse

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www.telegraph.co.uk 10y ago

Cancer cells “programmed back to normal” by US scientists

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If adding something to the context doesn't help, it's only proves you're not adding the right stuff.

I'm adding pointers to specification documents, and it saves me from the /new dumb coding agent that sees your code base for the first time and knows nothing about architecture, concepts, code organisation, etc...

I'm using no cookie cutter directives though (except maybe "do not attempt to deploy, we're using CI CD to deploy" to avoid an automatic "wrangler deploy" to Cloudflare)

I really wanted to be notified of my Cloudflare builds in Pushover, since that's what I use for all my indie web apps events.

You can deploy it in minutes on your Cloudflare account.

- create an App in https://Pushover.net - click the Deploy on Cloudflare button on the Github Readme - configure the two Pushover secrets (User key and App token) in the form

Enjoy.

As I've said in another comment, I'm offering a free cyber security assessment tool online and 22% of people use a disposable address, meaning they remain anonymous yet they have me scan the internet for vulnerabilities. They're not protecting themselves from me, they're protecting themselves from the consequences of their actions.

You could have asked me what reasonable use cases exist.

There are extremely valid use cases for anonymity in B2C, most likely none in B2B.

Let me explain: I'm operating a free cyber security service and 22% of users use a disposable emails. 22% of emails bouncing is not a TINY inconvenience. Hackers using my service incognito isn't a TINY inconvenience. If you're hiding your identity, I can't offer a safer internet to everyone.

I respect your disgust, and I feel the same towards your entitlement and presumptions.

I'll fix the percentage, it's 0.01%.

TLS can already be setup to avoid store-now-decrypt-later PQC issues. That's available today, and should be implemented. Use https://sslboard.com to inventory all your external TLS infrastructure and check for PQC readiness (creator here).

Maybe code quality shouldn't be considered cybersecurity in the first place?

When things are tagged "cybersecurity", compliance/budget/manager/dashboard/education/certification are the usual response...

I don't think it would be an appropriate response for code quality issues, and it would likely escape the hands of the very people who can fix code quality issues, ie. developers.

eIDAS tends to hear "our European Sovereignty" when they hear Self-Sovereign.

You can't have a government issue a Self-Sovereign identity to you, it's an oxymoron. They can only issue credentials. But then they'd feel like they're losing control, so they pervert it. Now they call it SSI but it's just digital credentials.

The very title says it all: German implementation of eIDAS will require Google or Apple ID. That's not self-sovereign identity.

And that's why I find it lame.

I agree, and that government ID isn't your identity, it's just a piece of it.

I'm not arguing against government ID, I'm saying identity doesn't have to be that piece of paper, or that Google ID.

Analogy: if google ID is your primary key in your User table, then you're cooked. Instead use a uuid for the PK, and add Google ID as just another id. But the identity is the PK.

Self Sovereign Identity (aka SSI) is the only way out of those identity sovereignty issues. It shouldn't be acceptable that your identity depends on anything or anyone. It should just be your identity.

A paper or certificate can prove an entity trusts your identity to be <firstname, lastname, etc...> but that shouldn't be your identity.

You just are. Not your google Id, not your Apple Id either of course.

Governments are lame.

Hi! thanks for your feedback. Indeed the site fails to tell you what ezS3 does: it's not an alternative to Minio, it's not an S3 storage implementation. S3 is made for machines, ezS3.net "proxies" it for humans: it's a web-based S3 browser, and adds RBAC and sharing.

And the record is N=35=7x5, that's 6 bits not 35 bits as the author is saying... Maybe he'd revise his prediction on QC if he knew?

I'm working on something that could help: linking sslboard with software that's making issuance and distribution of certs easier, ie. a proper CLM. It's not cloud based for security reasons. In that context, we know your wildcard certs because we issue them, and we could know where they are if we distribute them... Please get in touch with me (chris@sslboard.com) if you're interested in early access and having a word in the development of the product!

one-address-to-N-servers is perfect if the N servers don't all terminate TLS. If not, it becomes impossible to actually test what certificates are actually served. I've seen this fail before (TLS tests flip/flop between good/bad between checks).

As for wildcard certs, I agree there are use cases where we really need them like dynamic subdomains {customer}.status.com

Can you share how they make ACME client configuration easier?

If you're using a cert on multiple IPs, or IPv4+v6, SSLBoard will monitor all IPs. It's not foolproof, but it covers most common practices. btw wildcard certs don't have a good reputation (blast radius)...

Indeed, SSLBoard is scanning CT logs. You can add/import host names though, to allow monitoring of wildcard certs. Same if you're using ports that are not 443, you have to add these to the list of hostnames that are checked.

It's not as convenient, but it's the best SSLBoard can do...

I dearly remember seeing a PX-8 in the hands of a person (was it by a pool?) and thinking "it would be so nice if work could look like that". It must have been Byte magazine?

I was a kid in France, now I'm working remotely from Bangkok: dreams come true after all.