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RonaldI Installed <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/CasaOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CasaOS</a> just for fun on an old computer running Debian Bookworm and I'm impressed. In no time I look at a slick user interface from my main computer, and I've installed some apps like <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/HomeAssistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeAssistant</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/NextCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NextCloud</a> in it. Looks very promising. <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/NerdToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NerdToot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/TechnoBabble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechnoBabble</a> <a href="https://casaos.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://casaos.io/</a>

Daniel Colquitt<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NerdToot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NerdToot</a>This week I set up my own Web Key Directory (<a href="https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD</a>) on my website. This allows people/email clients to look up my OpenPGP public key (<a href="https://www.openpgp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openpgp.org/</a>) — yes, I am one of *those* people.OpenPGP is a standard for Public-key cryptography (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography</a>), which allows for the exchange of encrypted messages through the sharing of public keys.In a nutshell, if you want to send a secure email to me, you use my public key to encrypt the message. I then use my private key to decrypt the message. I can share my public key freely, since it can only be used to encrypt (and verify) messages and only my private key can be used to decrypt the messages.The most gnarly part of PGP has always been key distribution. Because there are no central key authorities for PGP we had to rely on the web of trust (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust</a>) which, quite frankly, we an absolute mess and never really worked. Key servers also have their own share of problems (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)#Problems_with_keyservers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)#Problems_with_keyservers</a>). Essentially, the only way that you could be sure that you had my public key was to either ask me directly, or get it from someone that you trust.The advantage of WKD is that you can obtain public keys directly from the domain over HTTPS. This means that in order to obtain my public key, you only need to trust that I control the domain danielcolquitt.com. If you use a WKD capable email client, you won’t even have to do anything, your client should automatically fetch the public key for you.

Jermaine :18only:Wanneer de verveling toeslaat en omdat meerdere buren laadpaalklevers zijn, omdat Audi-/BMW-eigenaren. Dan maak je daar iets handigs voor... <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/nerdtoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nerdtoot</a>

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