This is a short commentary on a few overt anonymity gaps in ProtonMail Beta, ver 1.12. These concerns were emailed to ProtonMail Security on January 21, 2015, and they provided a response that is included at the end.
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Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Anonymity leaks within ProtonMail Beta
This is a short commentary on a few overt anonymity gaps in ProtonMail Beta, ver 1.12. These concerns were emailed to ProtonMail Security on January 21, 2015, and they provided a response that is included at the end.
Labels:
anonymity,
email,
ProtonMail,
research
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Dear Google: Where's the SSL for Blogger?
I thought enabling HTTPS for this blog would be straightforward, but I painfully found out that a feature I assumed would be a no-brainer is in fact impossible to come by - there's no way to use SSL natively with Blogger. For those of us that want to serve content via end-to-end encryption Blogger is not a solution until Google decides to bring it up to speed with the rest of its services.
Friday, July 4, 2014
When browsers react - Revoked certificates, Heartbleed and you! - News at 11.
tl;dr: Don't forget to reissue your new SSL certificate after you revoke your old one.
I tried to connect to https://kutv.com but Chrome 35 was displeased. Apparently the website's SSL certificate has been revoked, and once that happens ye shall not pass:
Labels:
Heartbleed,
research,
security,
SSL,
web
Monday, April 14, 2014
IPv6 APN means no VPN for the Galaxy S5 on T-Mobile
After starting up F-Secure's Freedome (my nomination for Android app of the year) on my new Samsung Galaxy S5 I noticed that webpages stopped loading. In fact, I seemed to have lost all internet connectivity even though Freedome's notification icon indicated it was connected and the 4G/LTE data icon was present. What gives?
Sunday, March 23, 2014
CityWeekly.net is suspicious and possibly malicious, according to Google
Note: this was resolved by CityWeekly within a day of me notifying them.
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