Category Archives: authentication

What To Do About Fraudulent SSL Certificates?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Josh Peters

In case you’ve missed it, Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar issued a wildcard SSL certificate to someone who is not Google for *.google.com. The risk to most folks is that a third party can pretend to be Google for most intents … Continue reading →

Posted in authentication, encryption, podcast, privacy/secrecy/security, technology, web | Tagged dns, internet, security, ssl | Leave a comment

Proposal: Making Web Browsing Safer

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Josh Peters

Overview There are a lot of really great ways to communicate securely over the ‘Net. The trouble is, they’re virtually all user-unfriendly. Today I’d like to start a discussion on making browsing safer and friendlier for everyone. I call it … Continue reading →

Posted in authentication, privacy/secrecy/security, society/culture/news, technology, web | Tagged authentication, security, ssl | Leave a comment

Attn. VW Credit

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Josh Peters

Today I got a phone call from someone claiming to be VW Credit (and she very well may have been a rep. but read on). She told me that my June payment never happened and that she needed a checking … Continue reading →

Posted in authentication, best-practices, customer-relations, identity, privacy/secrecy/security | 8 Comments

YAHOO! BBAuth + OpenID = idproxy.net

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Josh Peters

This is good news. Now you can easily login to this blog via an existing YAHOO! account. http://idproxy.net/ acts as an openid server that lets one use YAHOO!’s browser-based authentication scheme and generate an openid with it. From there you … Continue reading →

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Applying “Jeopardy!” to identity validation

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Josh Peters

As I was walking to my fianc�e’s apartment I had a slight revelation as to how to solve a problem that our society is plagued with (that is, plagued with in not necessary a bad way). The problem is this: … Continue reading →

Posted in authentication, privacy/secrecy/security, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Another Blog?!?

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Josh Peters

After much deliberation I have decided to spin off my work and technical interests into a second blog, namely this one called “Please Work This Time!” I’ll be documenting some horror stories with various projects I’ve worked with and will … Continue reading →

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