Someone asked me to explain how to set up your own instance of
Apache using MSVA, so here goes:
0a) Make or co-opt a user to run MSVA on a fixed port. I was
doing this with runit, but systemd turns out to be far
nicer, so there's an example config[0] to use with a
"wwwmsva" user.
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:33:37PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
> Is Tor centralized this way?
The Tor directory authorities are centralized, but the effect
of compromising a DNS root server is probably worse than
compromising a Tor directory authority.
If all the Tor directory authorities are bad
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:02:38PM -0700, Erik Harmon wrote:
> I wanted to bring this up and see if the group has anything to say on this.
You might want to go back and read the mailing list threads
discussing WebID/FOAF+SSL's security failings.
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:56:10PM -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> If I understand it correctly, it's part of the standard
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt
It has KEY, which is supposed to contain the entire certificate,
which is, as other people have said, highly impractical in
a QR cod
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:00:19AM -0400, The Doctor wrote:
> I've had a lot of success with putting my PGP key ID and fingerprint
> into my Vcards that are then turn into QRcodes, though.
Which fields do you use for that?
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:30:10PM -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> One possible scenario is the following: User Jane meets her friend Ken,
> they 'bump' their phones and by doing so they exchange not only their
> private information (vcard, GPG keys) but also establish a high degree
> of digital i
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:14:31PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I'm not sure what its current status is, but I came across it recently and
> thought it seemed relevant for this project.
Seems to require gomake to build.
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:27:47PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> A related question: I want to help. None of these pages are
> answering the question: where's the code?
So far the only think I'm aware of being written specifically
for the FreedomBox is Plinth[0], though I think that things
like bo
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:00:58PM -0700, Lee Fisher wrote:
> 1) FB defined some profiles/milestones, specifically, vCurrent that
> is achievable with current/working/proven open source software, and
> vNext that has discussions about undeveloped/unproven neat ideas. Or
> some other project split w
I am going to anger Jonas by discussing something that
interests me, and even though UX is the very most
important thing about the FreedomBox project, it is
only a small part of the text below.
A group of us got together recently to discuss the state
of distributed naming technology. We talked ab
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:19:41AM +0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Our main target is plug computers and the ideal
> target something like Dreamplug:
> http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx
While I agree that "something like the Dreamplug" is
the right way to go, the Dreamplug it
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:27:11PM +, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
> Can that be done at all? Or should we assume that any infrastructure
> required by the FreedomBoxes will be managed and owned and run by the
> foundation? Deciding whether the project as a whole is business hostile or
> not
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:51:48PM +0100, Henry Story wrote:
> This is the equivalent in PGP land of loosing control of your private key.
> What do you do then?
I think it is more the equivalent of losing control over a uid. In
PGP-land I would merely revoke that uid from my key, and publish the
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:11:01AM +0100, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > WebID use SSL certificates, but do not require _centralized_ certificate
> > authorities, Actually, due to requiring an unusual additional hint, some
> > centralized CA autorities including CAcert.org cannot currently provide
> >
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:09:25PM +0100, Henry Story wrote:
> I am also currently chairing the WebID incubator group at the W3C, so if
> you have WebID questions don't hesitate to ping me, or join the W3C mailing
> list and ping there.
I hope that in the long run we are going to want to rid
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> When I joined the list about a week and a half ago, I thought that the
> goal of the project was to create a Freedom Box based on a pluggable
> computer like the SheevaPlug or PogoPlug. From what I read, the hardware
> platform ha
[setting MFT to netsukuku list]
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:42:51PM +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote:
> A port to another language would not be a huge effort per se.
> The choice on Stackless Python has been made mainly because it offers
> the ability to run tasklets, a sort of very light weight threads.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:51:05PM +, Matt Willsher wrote:
> My point is rather: why not just use X.509 keys and certs and why use
> GPG/PGP at all? X.509 is multi purpose, well adopted and well trusted.
One reason is that OpenPGP peer certification is less messy than
X.509 mesh PKI. I believ
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:19:17PM +, Matt Willsher wrote:
> are investing a reasonable amount of time even at this stage. What are
> we contributing to and is there really any point in discussing the
> this device if key decisions have already been made behind currently
> closed doors? Or shou
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