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An Antidote to Apathy
The tree house Villa Kanalblick. Learning how to climb a tree as a form of protest feels massively self-effective. Suddenly, you are no longer simply part of a protest that comes and goes and is mostly ignored by those in power. Instead, you present an obstruction to them, a disruption which they actively need to deal with. To me, self-efficacy…
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PGPainless meets the Web-of-Trust
Path finding in a “Web-of-Trust” – Photo by Mads Schmidt Rasmussen on Unsplash We are very proud to announce the release of PGPainless-WOT, an implementation of the OpenPGP Web of Trust specification using PGPainless. Big thanks to Heiko for his valuable contributions and the great boost in motivation working together gave me 🙂 Also big thanks to NLnet for sponsoring this project in such a flexible way. Lastly,…
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Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – Knitting a Net
A densely interconnected directed graph forming the Web-of-Trust. Photo by Ricardo Resende on Unsplash I imagine the Web-of-Trust as an old, half-rotten fishing net (bear with me); There are knobbly knots, which may or may not be connected to neighboring knots through yarn of different thickness. Some knots are well-connected with others, as ye olde fisherman did some repair work on the net, while other knots or even whole…
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Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Certify Keys with PGPainless
Currently I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. Technically, the WoT consists of a graph where the nodes are OpenPGP keys (certificates) with User-IDs and the edges are signatures. In order to be able to create a WoT, users need to be able to sign other users certificates to create…
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Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story
I try to make PGPainless build reproducible. A few months ago I added some lines to the build script which were supposed to make the project reproducible by using static file modification dates, as well as a deterministic file order in the JAR archive. However, recently my JAR files started to contain mismatching bytes…
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