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Home 21 May 2018 Schneier and Kerr on Encryption Workarounds Security Bruce Schneier is a famous cryptography expert and Orin Kerr a famous cyberlaw professor. Together they've published a law journal article on Encryption Workarounds. It's intended for lawyers so it's quite accessible to non-technical readers. See more ... posted at: 15:27 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/encwork.html 20 May 2018 GDPR, ICANN, and Registrar WHOIS ICANN On Friday I was on a surprisingly interesting session at Rightscon 2018 in Toronto about GDPR and WHOIS. The panel consisted of Eleeza Agoopian from ICANN staff; Avri Doria who was recently appointed to the ICANN board; Elliot Noss who runs large registrar Tucows; Stephanie Perrin who has done a lot of privacy work for the Canadian government and as an ICANN volunteer, and me; Milt Mueller, who is now at Georgia Tech, moderated. There was a lot of overlap of roles on the panel. For example, I was there as a security researcher, but I've also resold Tucows' service for almost 20 years. See more ... posted at: 22:42 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/reggdpr.html 06 May 2018 Our Woke Domain Registries ICANN Hmmn. $ whois -h whois.donuts.co women.forsale Domain not found. This premium domain is available for purchase. If you would like to make an offer, please contact platinums@donuts.email. $ whois -h whois.donuts.co girls.forsale Domain not found. This premium domain is available for purchase. If you would like to make an offer, please contact platinums@donuts.email. $ whois -h whois.donuts.co teens.forsale Domain not found. This premium domain is available for purchase. If you would like to make an offer, please contact platinums@donuts.email. posted at: 17:10 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/wokereg.html 05 May 2018 Blockchain's two-flavored appeal Money A recent story in Medium describes yet again quite well why blockchains don't solve any real problems: Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. So what is their irresistable appeal? Bitcoins remind me of a story from the late chair of the Princeton University astronomy department. In 1950 Immanuel Velikovsky published Worlds in Collision, a controversial best selling book that claimed that 3500 years ago Venus and Mars swooped near the earth, causing catastrophes that were passed down in religions and mythologies. See more ... posted at: 23:00 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Money/bccrud.html 03 May 2018 Choosing Internationalized E-mail addresses Email Recently I've been working on EAI mail, looking at what software is available (Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail both handle it now) and what work remains to be done. A surprisingly tricky part is assigning EAI addresses to users. In traditional ASCII mail, the local part of the address, what goes before the @ sign, can be any printable ASCII characters. Although an address like %i()/;~f@examp1e.com is valid, and mail systems will handle it, users don't want addresses like that. A good address is one that is easy to remember, easy to tell someone over the phone, and easy to type. Mail systems all give senders some help when interpreting addresses. If an address is Bob@example, they'll accept bob@ or BOB@. If the address is joe.smith@, they'll accept Joe.Smith@ and often variations in punctuation like joesmith@ without the dots. The flip side of this is that you don't assign different addresses that are too similar. While it is techincally possible that BOB@ and bob@ could deliver to different mailboxes, nobody does that. Similarly, nobody makes joesmith@ and joe.smith@ different. (They may not both work, but if they do, they're the same mailbox.) The domain (the part of the address after the @ sign) has to follow the DNS rules, which don't allow any fuzzy matching other than ASCII upper and lower case. How does all this extend into EAI mail? See more ... posted at: 14:24 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/eaiaddr.html

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