Thomas Steen Rasmussen (born 1979) is a system architect and Unix administrator with a preference for FreeBSD and a healthy interest in network and system security. Developer with experience in various languages, currently with a preference for Python, specifically Django. When I work with databases I prefer PostgreSQL. I care a lot about online freedom, IT politics and Internet legislation, which has inspired me to run uncensoreddns.org and hushfile.it in my sparetime, among other projects. Co-organizer of BornHack.
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Hushfile is a zero-knowledge (clientside encrypted) filesharing service. The code is on https://github.com/hushfile (spread around different repositories), and the service is running on https://hushfile.it/
The first part of this workshop will explain the idea behind hushfile. The initial (and current) implementation will be covered, including the rationale for some of the choices I made. The various attempts at adding large file support will be covered, including why they failed.
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- Thursday, Sep 1st, 2016, 19:00 (CEST) - Thursday, Sep 1st, 2016, 21:00 (CEST)
The UncensoredDNS project was started almost 7 years ago, back in November 2009. People were asking for recommendations for alternatives to their ISP's censored DNS servers.
Back then OpenDNS did NXDOMAIN redirection, an advertising trick where misspelled nonexistant domains are redirected to a search page with ads instead of returning an NXDOMAIN error. They also didn't have ipv6 or DNSSEC, both of which are mandatory on a modern DNS server, even back in 2009.
Even if Google D… Read more
Schedule:
- Friday, Sep 2nd, 2016, 15:00 (CEST) - Friday, Sep 2nd, 2016, 16:00 (CEST)