[liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Schultze
Greetings all, A couple of years ago, I did some limited research on signed (but not encrypted) HTTP responses. I discovered that although it had been considered briefly by a few folks in the past, it never went anywhere. This continues to be surprising to me, given the ever increasing need to

Re: [liberationtech] US global internet freedom funding - FY 15 President's budget request

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Schultze
For context, $50.5m was the FY14 omnibus appropriations bill amount. The President's budget is only one of many inputs into the actual appropriations that result. Not sure what the brackets signal. At State, much of our IF funding comes from funds that are not necessarily explicitly called out

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Natanael
It would probably be as easy as using SSL with a null cipher with authentication like poly1305. Good luck getting it implemented anywhere. It would need a fair bit of special treatment, like browsers explicitly recognizing it as *not* an encrypted connection despite being an SSL cipher suite. -

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread David H. Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When we were putting together ideas for DDeflect we considered this as it would solve many problems. Apparently it's been proposed, and rejected, before ? http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-October/037668.html Perhaps in these

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Eduardo Robles Elvira
On 11/03/14 14:21, David H. Mason wrote: When we were putting together ideas for DDeflect we considered this as it would solve many problems. Apparently it's been proposed, and rejected, before ? http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2012-October/037668.html Perhaps in these

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Schultze
Hmm, this is new since I last looked. Don't know if it is viable or not, but it seems relevant: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures On Mar 11, 2014 8:52 AM, Natanael natanae...@gmail.com wrote: It would probably be as easy as using SSL with a null cipher with authentication

[liberationtech] Job opportunity with APC: Internet Rights Outreach and Capacity-building Coordinator for the Maghreb-Machrek region

2014-03-11 Thread Shawna Finnegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear LibTech, I apologize for cross-posting: I am writing to share a job posting from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), for an Outreach and Capacity-building Coordinator to lead our internet rights networking and

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Natanael: It would probably be as easy as using SSL with a null cipher with authentication like poly1305. I preferred to sign the source files on my local hdd using a tool that internally uses gpg. That way the SSL CA's wouldn't have any power over it, neither the web server. If we were to

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Patrick Schleizer adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Natanael: It would probably be as easy as using SSL with a null cipher with authentication like poly1305. I preferred to sign the source files on my local hdd using a tool that internally uses gpg. That way the

[liberationtech] Signed / Encrypted HTTP - was: Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Steve Schultze: Greetings all, A couple of years ago, I did some limited research on signed (but not encrypted) HTTP responses. I discovered that although it had been considered briefly by a few folks in the past, it never went anywhere. This continues to be surprising to me, given the ever

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Natanael
Den 11 mar 2014 20:42 skrev Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Patrick Schleizer adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Natanael: It would probably be as easy as using SSL with a null cipher with authentication like poly1305. I preferred to sign the source

Re: [liberationtech] Signed HTTP

2014-03-11 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Steve Schultze sjschul...@gmail.comwrote: We sign software packages and emails. Why not http results? Ideally this would call for an IETF standard implemented in the major http servers, using certs already installed for https (if that is technically

Re: [liberationtech] EarthHQ, EveryVote, Partystarter, TopVideoTimeline - Liberation technology projects for improving public knowledge and participation

2014-03-11 Thread Eduardo Robles Elvira
On 12/03/14 01:45, Mitch Downey wrote: Hi LibTech, I'm a UX designer and developer working on a few open source liberation technology projects. Please email me if you would like to learn more, have feedback, or may want to get involved in any of the projects below. I would especially like

[liberationtech] EarthHQ, EveryVote, Partystarter, TopVideoTimeline - Liberation technology projects for improving public knowledge and participation

2014-03-11 Thread Mitch Downey
Hi LibTech, I'm a UX designer and developer working on a few open source liberation technology projects. Please email me if you would like to learn more, have feedback, or may want to get involved in any of the projects below. I would especially like to connect with college students who could be