Friday, May 4, 2018

GnuTLS and TLS 1.3

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[last update 2019-05-25] GnuTLS already contains support for the latest TLS 1.3 draft (draft-ietf-tls-tls13-26) on its master git branch ...
Monday, August 21, 2017

An overview of GnuTLS 3.6.0

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The new 3.6.0 GnuTLS release contains several new features, back-end changes and clean ups. This is a release which re-spins the so-called ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

The mess with internationalized domain names

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While internationalized domain names (DNS names) are not common in the English speaking world, they exist and their use was standardized b...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Improving by simplifying the GnuTLS PRNG

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One of the most unwanted baggages for crypto implementations written prior to this decade is the (pseudo-)random generator, or simply PRNG. ...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Using the Nitrokey HSM with GnuTLS applications

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The Nitrokey HSM is an open hardware security module, in the form of a smart card token, which is used to isolate a server's private ke...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

A brief look at the Linux-kernel random generator interfaces

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Most modern operating systems provide a cryptographic pseudo-random number generator (CPRNG), as part of their OS kernel, intended to be use...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Restricting the scope of CA certificates

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The granting of an intermediate CA certificate to a surveillance firm generated quite some fuss . Setting theories aside, the main reason be...
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