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Notices by Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com), page 5

  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 21:56:47 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • codesections
    @codesections Lurk on the Emacs mailing lists (or check out the archives), in particular emacs-devel, help-gnu-emacs, and emacs-tangents:

    https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs

    It's a vibrant and passionate community. I use both Vim and Emacs with evil-mode. Emacs embodies the hacker spirit.
    In conversation Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 21:56:47 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  2. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 21:52:34 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    "ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It":

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/ets-isnt-tls-and-you-shouldnt-use-it
    In conversation Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 21:52:34 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It
      from Electronic Frontier Foundation
      The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called called ETS...
  3. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 23:02:23 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Finally received word: #LibrePlanet2019 will once again be held in the Stata Center at MIT in Boston, MA.

    I'm excited to see everyone there, and I'll be speaking. Who here on the fediverse is attending?
    In conversation Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 23:02:23 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  4. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 12:52:58 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber To clarify, my second paragraph applies only to symmetric encryption.

    You're absolutely not under-cautioning; I don't believe in such a thing in crypto. :) I was inquiring to see if multiple encryption was supported out of caution.

    Certain ciphers have been weakened (or broken entirely), absolutely, which is what makes multiple encryption attractive. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

    Thanks for your reply. I'm hoping to have the time to look into Spritely more deeply after LP2019.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 12:52:58 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  5. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 00:17:37 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber Good stuff!

    Re: encryption "shelf life": would the URI scheme support multiple encryption?

    Barring weaknesses in the actual ciphers (and the various other ways to undermine encryption), it's unlikely that data encrypted with modern ciphers at sufficient keysizes will ever be able to be decrypted without the key (Bremermann's limit, with the optimal brute-force post-quantum attack against symmetric ciphers being Grover's algorithm, which is mitigated by doubling the keysize).

    So one option to mitigate the compromise of a cipher due to some sort of cryptanalytic attack is to use multiple ciphers, each with different keys.

    Of course, if Alice is communicating an ephemeral symmetric key to Bob using a asymmetrically encrypted channel, the robustness of the symmetric algorithms won't matter much if attacker that can monitor network traffic between Alice or Bob may be able to decrypt that key exhcnage in the future. But that exchange could take place over a more trusted connection that is not available to the public, unlike the e.g. IPFS-stored encrypted messages themselves (though it may still be available to e.g. the NSA/GHCQ/etc). So there is still value in hardening the symmetrically encrypted message as much as Alice and Bob desire based on their threat model.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 00:17:37 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  6. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 23:27:39 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Micah Lee 🔑
    @micahflee fantastic work!
    In conversation Monday, 18-Feb-2019 23:27:39 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  7. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 01:20:56 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    GHCQ’s “Exceptional Access”, End-To-End Encryption, Decentralization, and Reproducible Builds

    https://mikegerwitz.com/2019/02/ghcq-exceptional-access-e2ee-decentralization-reproducible

    My contribution to the debate to address what I felt was missing from mainstream discussions.
    In conversation Monday, 18-Feb-2019 01:20:56 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  8. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 00:03:40 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    My defense of #PGP against the latest FUD article on HN:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19177064

    I feel like most times I respond to something on HN it's because I don't give myself a cooldown period. Unfortunately, things on HN don't last long on the front page, so it incentivizes haste replies, or else people will never see the thread again. And that reduces discussion quality. I'm not pleased with the tone of my reply.
    In conversation Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 00:03:40 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  9. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Feb-2019 00:59:35 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    I will be speaking this year at #LibrePlanet2019:

    https://mikegerwitz.com/2019/02/i-will-be-speaking-at-lp2019

    More details to follow in coming weeks.
    In conversation Friday, 15-Feb-2019 00:59:35 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  10. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 08:44:03 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • FiXato 🇳🇱🇳🇴
    @fixato Thank you for taking the time to tell me and take those screenshots.

    I did neglect trying to restyle cgit a little bit while working on my site's mobile layout, but I didn't realize it was this bad. I'll play around with it a bit. Thanks again for the bug report. :)
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 08:44:03 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 01:20:12 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber I've been trying to explore hacking as a form of relaxation too by forcing myself to work on very small things (because "relaxing" on a larger project turns into sleepless nights). I'd be curious to know how you approach it and prevent yourself from getting too serious and re-stressed.

    I recently set myself up a repository to try to encourage myself to do just that (https://mikegerwitz.com/projects/night/about/), though I haven't had too much time for it yet. Though it did have an unexpected consequence: one of the things I did was write a sed script to make little balls move and fall around a barely-interactive ASCII map, and my kids fell in love with it.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 01:20:12 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 00:13:34 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    "[Illinois] Ruling Is a Warning to Companies Collecting Biometric Scans Without Permission"

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/71660

    I'm encouraged by this. Let's see more of this nationwide.

    > Lawmakers nationwide would be wise to follow Illinois’ lead and ensure that people throughout the country have a way to defend against surreptitious or misleading uses of their biometrics and other private and sensitive data.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 00:13:34 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. Ruling Is a Warning to Companies Collecting Biometric Scans Without Permission
      from American Civil Liberties Union
  13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 23:31:42 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • ASIC
    @asic It has been at least in recent years (I haven't checked all past years), but I mention it anyway because, if I'm trying to get new people to attend, I don't expect that they'd know that.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 23:31:42 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  14. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 23:27:44 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber Thanks!
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 23:27:44 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  15. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 10:31:14 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    in reply to
    • Mike Gerwitz
    Well it looks like Racket has a Gmane mirror for archives, but I was curious for Google Group archives in general
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 10:31:14 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  16. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 10:09:38 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    To subscribe to a Google Groups mailing list without having to run non-free JS or have a Google account, send an email to:

    <group-name>+subscribe@googlegroups.com

    That seems to have worked, but we'll see if I actually start getting messages.

    After @cwebber's talk about Guile and Racket in which he mentioned a mailing list, I figured I'll start lurking on racket-{users,dev}. I was disappointed to learn both of them use Google Groups. I still don't know how to browse group archives without JS; if anyone knows, lmk. Otherwise I won't ever be able to send anyone links to such conversations (I can send message-id, but users would need to have copies in their own mailbox to avoid having to run non-free JS).
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 10:09:38 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  17. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 22:22:09 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber Congratulations on your grant, btw, and I'm excited to see what work you do with Spritely. Thanks for the preview in the talk.
    In conversation Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 22:22:09 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  18. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 22:19:41 EST Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    @cwebber I enjoyed the candidness of your talk. I've been watching curiously for some time as you explore Racket, so it's nice to see a summary of your perspective now that you've worked with Racket for some time.

    Guile's shortcomings aren't secret (and may not matter to many people---we know how that goes with smaller hacker communities). But they aren't often laid bare, and you've provoked some interesting conversation that I think we'll only benefit from. And you've balanced that with the very positive work that's being done with Guile.

    So good talk, and I'd be interested to pick your brain on certain things in the future.
    In conversation Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 22:19:41 EST from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink
  19. dave stranding (dthompson@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 14:07:06 EST dave stranding dave stranding

    some of the FOSDEM 2019 videos are already available! here is Andy Wingo's talk about Guile's new JIT: https://video.fosdem.org/2019/K.4.201/guile3fasterprograms.webm

    In conversation Monday, 04-Feb-2019 14:07:06 EST from toot.cat permalink Repeated by mikegerwitz
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