Eric Rescorla
Why getting voting right is hard, Part I: Introduction and Requirements
Every two years around this time, the US has an election and the rest of the world marvels and asks...
Read MoreA look at password security, Part V: Disk Encryption
The previous posts ( I, II, III, IV) focused primarily on remote login, either to multiuser systems or Web sites...
Read MoreA look at password security, Part IV: WebAuthn
As discussed in part III, public key authentication is great in principle but in practice has been hard to integrate...
Read MoreA look at password security, Part III: More secure login protocols
In part II, we looked at the problem of Web authentication and covered the twin problems of phishing and password...
Read MoreA look at password security, Part II: Web Sites
In part I, we took a look at the design of password authentication systems for old-school multiuser systems. While timesharing...
Read MoreA look at password security, Part I: history and background
Today I’d like to talk about passwords. Yes, I know, passwords are the worst, but why? This is the first...
Read MoreMore details on Comcast as a Trusted Recursive Resolver
Yesterday Mozilla and Comcast announced that Comcast was the latest member of Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver program, joining current partners...
Read MoreThe USA Freedom Act and Browsing History
Last Thursday, the US Senate voted to renew the USA Freedom Act which authorizes a variety of forms of national...
Read MoreWhat the heck happened with .org?
If you are following the tech news, you might have seen the announcement that ICANN withheld consent for the change...
Read MoreMore on COVID Surveillance: Mobile Phone Location
Previously I wrote about the use of mobile apps for COVID contact tracing. This idea has gotten a lot of...
Read MoreLooking at designs for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
A number of the proposals for how to manage the COVID-19 pandemic rely on being able to determine who has...
Read MoreWhat you need to know about Twitter on Firefox
Yesterday Twitter announced that for Firefox users data such as direct messages (DMs) might be left sitting on their computers...
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