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I broke down and bought a Verisign cert for Apple Mail. So what are the pros and cons of S/MIME certs vs GPG/PGP signing?
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Con #1: You had to buy a cert.
- Curtis Hendzell
Con #2: You'll have to keep buying certs.
- Sanjay Parekh
You can get free certs from Comodo and Thawte. Verisign was more convenient for me - and it's only $20/year.
- Leo Laporte
I've gotten the free ones from Thawte but never have gotten approved by the circle of trust thingy. It seems a bit hard to do. But nice in theory.
- Sanjay Parekh
More webmail clients use gpg that I've seen, but otherwise I think S/MIME has good representation in email applications.
- Jeremy Heslop
Of course then I find this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Jeremy Heslop
I'm curious.. Do you use these for Digital Signing (authentication)? or Encryption?
- Randall Hand
S/Mime is what tends to be supported in Enterprise IT applications. GPG/PGP tends to the individual although I have seen plugins for Outlook. Its a similar question to whether you select Sendmail and Thunderbird (GPG/PGP) over Exchange and Outlook (S/Mime) when you make IT decisions.
- Craig Duerr
I used S/MIME for a couple years with Mail.app and it does get irritating to deal with yearly expiration which most certs are. The other issue is that some people will start to routinely automatically encrypt email to you (whereas most people don't have GPG, S/MIME support is pretty widespread) and if you ever lose your cert or access from webmail you'll not be able to read their emails.
- Gersham Meharg
S/MIME relies on trust of corporations (Certificate Authorities). (pgp|gpg) relies on trust of individuals and is more granular. Also there's the monetary cost (already mentioned.)
- Kevin W. Mullet
Three big differences: support, key trust, portability. Leaving aside webmail, which (with notable exceptions) generally don't support either of them ... when it comes to support, S/MIME is the clear winner: almost every email client supports S/MIME out of the box, and basically none of them support PGP.
- Joel Bennett
Trust: With the exception of some odd "free" certs, SSL cert providers generally make some effort to associate a REAL IDENTITY with a certificate --that is, not just an email address, but a human being. You can obviously attest to this yourself. The "free" certs are generally issued to an email address (ie: the "name" will be the email address rather than a person's name) to signify the...
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- Joel Bennett
Portability: PGP/GPG are trivially portable, and in fact most such tools offer the option to "sign" or "encrypt" (and test signatures) on any free text, because the signing is done in pure text. However, that (generally speaking) means you're restricted to plain text ;-) and, well, S/MIME is basically the opposite ;-p
- Joel Bennett
Thunderbird+Enigmail addon+GnuPG is my preference at my desk. GnuPG + Firefox + FireGPG addon is awesome on the web and really decent inside Gmail. FireGPG can also help with other GPG tasks generally on the web. It's great! Throw in a key-signing party and trust of keys is no sweat!
- Andrew Skretvedt
It's too bad you didn't go for a CAcert! It would've been an interesting statement to make.
- A. Karl Kornel
from twhirl
@Sanjay: Are there enough people in your area to meet with? If not, have you tried the trusted third party route? I was able to do the former with Thawte, but did the latter with CAcert.
- A. Karl Kornel
from twhirl
CHART OF THE DAY: Twitter's Boom Around The World - http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-o...
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holy crap
- Kevin Nunez
too bad Twitter is down right now. kinda hard to use it while it's spewing 503 errors.
- Sanjay Parekh
@sanjay Yes. Entree and salad. In the vegetarian case, I recall the entree being something like lasagna.
eh - that isn't that bad. that said I think we're off to Sweet Tomato's tonight.
- Sanjay Parekh
@sanjay I thought so, too. It's designed for scrubbing a few high-traffic feeds...I need something that just tells me what to read.
you and me both. I'm trying to thin me feeds over time. just too many there.
- Sanjay Parekh
The Daily Start-Up: All We Need Is Love In Venture Capital - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ - http://blogs.wsj.com/venture...
Roundup of the discussions this week re:VC terms. Hopefully things are a changing.
- Sanjay Parekh
Reminder: It's #followfriday on Twitter! Here's how Follow Friday works: http://mashable.com/followfri/
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@mashable followfriday is just a waste of time space continuum. Nobody is really clicking on these vast amounts of follower suggestions. It should be ignored. That's why I rather avoid Twitter on Friday - normally.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
I'm with @buckybit. random people #FF me but I'm not sure it accomplishes anything. with the change on Twitter to not see half-convo's it's hard to find good people to read. that said I just realized I can see half convo's on FriendFeed so I'm starting to use this more and more.
- Sanjay Parekh
if you have to be a jerk you should start by saying "Hi, I'm <redacted> and I'm a jerk" that way I'll know beforehand. shesh.
like some kind of personal SMTP protocol? User-Agent: Jerk 1.0
- Andrew Watson
heh - actually that would be pretty good. except the designation is crowd sourced and not settable/changeable by your own mail agent.
- Sanjay Parekh
Looks like I chose wrong in standardizing on tr.im. :-(
yeah, listening to TWiT. didn't realize tr.im was shutting down.
- Sanjay Parekh
Jason currently rotating our 100 people i'm following for another 100... i'm tring to keep my following list under 800. not easy.
what are you using to rotate out people for this or are you doing this manually?
- Sanjay Parekh
Big news tonight - "FORGET APPLE: Google Voice for iPhone to Reemerge as Web App" - http://mashable.com/2009...
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So I don't (and won't) use an iPhone but this whole rejection confused me from the get go. Google Voice (and Grand Central before it) was always a web app. All iPhones (presumably) have Internet access. So why not just go that way. In fact, that's probably true for most apps that don't really need to be phone resident.
- Sanjay Parekh
okay, if you post short comments from FriendFeed how can you stop the URL posts at the end when they aren't needed?
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You can't. FF claims they use the link to know not to re-import it, but I think that's bull. If you comment on a tweet in FF and "CC twitter" it doesn't add a link. If FF just made a few small tweaks, it would be the ultimate twitter client.
- Daniel Sims
from Android
Totally agree - it's bull. Especially since the agent is set to "FriendFeed". Just parse that and you know not to reimport. I was hoping to go FriendFeed for my total client. Guess not.
- Sanjay Parekh
Reuters: Indonesia police shoot dead man in central Java who is suspected to be Noordin Top, the terrorist behind the deadly Bali bombings.
I so read this wrong initially. I thought they shot a dead man (he was already dead) and wondered "now, why would they do that?". After getting to the end it kind of made more sense. Maybe say "shoot man dead" next time instead of "shoot dead man".
- Sanjay Parekh
you can, but we will see on Monday - look forward to "standing room only" RT @sanjay: @jbmcconnell come on, nothing can beat the cats. :-D
it'll be standing room only for people who get there late. should be enough seats for the early comers.
- Sanjay Parekh
@sanjay re code escrow - been there, done that too.
+1 for being all talk and no action. in that case, it's gold. :-)
- Sanjay Parekh
plus, if you go out of biz and they discover there is no escrow, what can they do?
- Sanjay Parekh
come on, nothing can beat the cats. :-D
- Sanjay Parekh
i wish the "in reply to" part of the twitter api got carried through to friendfeed as a comment... #icanhazfeature?
totally agree. not sure why they don't thread based on Twitter replies. maybe they're working on it?
- Sanjay Parekh
well, i think that is why the Tumblr dashboard is so slow so maybe they left that feature out on purpose :)
- Andrew Watson
Re: Sanjay Parekh Says I’m Right (Sort Of) - http://www.killerstartups.com/blog...
"Fred - thanks for the kudos. Just one request - in the future just call me Sanjay instead of Mr. Parekh. ;-)"
- Sanjay Parekh
i guess because that URL has a ' in it, i get a 404 when i clickz it. :(
- Andrew Watson
hmmm. I actually can't even find the post. it may be gone. who knows.
- Sanjay Parekh
@lance Why is visibility of stats a flaw?
I'm with you. I don't get why that's a problem.
- Sanjay Parekh
Trying to decide if & at what level @skribit could/should sponsor @wordcampbham. cant get more targeted than a WordCamp http://wordcampbirmingham.org/sponsor...
Really looks like a perfect match for Skribit, and the price is right.
- Hector
speaking of Hector.. i just fixed that skribit squarespace validation issue you pointed me to long ago haha.
- Paul Stamatiou
I'd make sure the audience lines up with your target. Bloggers may be there but will they drive revenue?
- Sanjay Parekh
Oh yeah that's right! I still haven't really developed my blog, only getting 50 - 100 views per day due to the lack of daily posts so I haven't received any suggestions yet. What I have found very useful then, is browsing through other similar site's suggestions on Skribit. I think this is something you touched upon in your last post, with the "global" suggestions being added to Skribit!
- Hector
Re: Techstars - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"You're absolutely right and we'll do better next year. That said, I make sure Startup Riot (startupriot.com) is never on a Monday (after the first year where I made that mistake too). Maybe we can get you down here for that. It's a chance to see 50 companies in 1 day in a non-threatening environment. Would love to have you here for that."
- Sanjay Parekh
Re: Techstars - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"You're welcome to join us on this Monday (August 10th) when we do Demo Day for Shotput Ventures companies too! :-)"
- Sanjay Parekh
It took Comcast 8 hours to opt me out of their DNS hijacking program.
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Tom, go use OpenDNS.org. You don't need to use Comcast's DNS at all. Works great.
- Dave Friedel
I was going to suggest the same thing. I can't believe that Tom, as a technology enthusiast, wouldn't be using it already. There must be some other reason.
- Eric Geller
Doesn't OpenDNS do the exact same thing as Comcast though, it routes you to their page when you attempt to go to a nonexistent website?
- 321
Yes, 321, but they actually give you meaningful search results.
- Eric Geller
I'm an OpenDNS user and a techie. You're right, they do route you through to a search page on which they make money. But the difference is that with OpenDNS you can protect yourself from DNS vulnerabilities (like the DNS spoof attack that cropped up not too long ago - they were all over it) and prevent access to certain pages, etc. Plus you get cool stats and it seems to me to be faster than running your own DNS due to caching, etc.
- Sanjay Parekh
LOL. I love OpenDND. Secure, and it is protected from DNS attacks. When there is a problem, at least their is a large task force on it when it happens. Plus cool stats, and parental controls, and blocking network wide, so it works on proprietary devices, like the iPhone and iPod Touch. Plus I can manage it anywhere in the world, so when I'm away and my parents have no internet, I can make changes and see if the network is up or down. I love OpenDND.
- Zachary TG
Ouch, I'm sorry about that .:-/
- Hunt
I'd like to second (or third or fourth...) the recommendation for OpenDNS. I've been using it just about a month and it works great. We're using the filtering to keep out potentially harmful sites and it works well.
- Travis B. Hartwell
use open dns I have Rogers in Canada and their DNS is awerful Open DNS is the way to go
- Rob Cairns
I'm trying out OpenDNS (again) now and you can even disable the rerouting through a painless process when you sign up for an account (which gives you many options anyway). Going to be testing it out for a week or so on my main computer and then setting it up on my router for the whole network if I see improvements over my ISP's DNS.
- 321
Wow, OpenDNS is cool. Why hadn't I heard of this?
- Skyler Call
man, i got ping.fm hooked into everything! some dupes might show up in facebook though since ping updates friendfeed and facebook slurps in friendfeed....
wait. Facebook slurps in FriendFeed? where/how?
- Sanjay Parekh
There's a FF app on FB that you configure to do it. It just shows things as "posts" though, not status updates. I think I have ping.fm setup to do "status" updates to all of them so far... not sure how to get replies though. ah, the DIASPORA! :)
- Andrew Watson
from email
hmm... looks like ping update tumblr and FF slurped in tumblr and got it from ping. these loops are going to be hard to unroll. i'm also going to have to define one tool to be the origin of all updates and stop bouncing around :)
- Andrew Watson
guess I'll stop looking for a good FriendFeed client. just in case, any recommendations?
Not really a client, but the official notifier (http://friendfeed.com/setting...) works great.
- Daniel Sims
yeah, have that. was looking for something more Tweetdeck like. maybe I'll just run FF within Prism.
- Sanjay Parekh
Not a bad idea. I've found that unlike Twitter, the FF site is actually usable and fast so I haven't really needed a full FF client. Seesmic claims to be working on adding FF support though.
- Daniel Sims
I've already got it going. Works well. Thought Seesmic had support (they used to I think before they re-started/rebranded). Just loaded it up and they don't currently support it. But I think you're right, this works well.
- Sanjay Parekh
have you tried twhirl? I use tweetdeck and I am testing it out now but it seems to be an ok FF client.
- Richard Gallo
I thought Twhirl was gone after being bought by Seesmic. Guess not. Also, Tweetdeck doesn't have FriendFeed support. At least not that I know of.
- Sanjay Parekh
My mistake: I see they way I worded that it implied Tweetdeck use for FF, I use that for FB and Twitter, would love a FF integration
- Richard Gallo
whew! thought I was going crazy. ;-)
- Sanjay Parekh
I Don’t Like URL Shorteners - http://paulstamatiou.com/2009...
"So I have to comment since @stammy called me out on this. And I still think what I proposed was a good idea for that domain BTW - although there needs to be some innovation around it. This is kind of a funny post because not too long ago I was chuckling over the phrase “great linkrot apocalypse” - http://bit.ly/TaaUI (yes, I’m going to URL shorten every link I post in this comment for the sweet irony of it all). That comment was specifically around the idea of adding rev=”canonical” (http://bit.ly/xtel) to pages to help with the issue of URL shortners. You can read the gory details but I think it’s a good idea. Another idea proposed would be to run your own shortener (so for my site at sanjayparekh.com I would have my blog post hierarchy but also shorteners of the form sanjayparekh.com/. So if the shortened versions fail, it’s only my fault. That said, I think there are a lot of things that can be done by shorteners that can’t be effectively done by individuals. There is still quite a..."
- Sanjay Parekh
I Don’t Like URL Shorteners - http://paulstamatiou.com/i-dont-...
"So I have to comment since @stammy called me out on this. And I still think what I proposed was a good idea for that domain BTW – although there needs to be some innovation around it. This is kind of a funny post because not too long ago I was chuckling over the phrase “great linkrot apocalypse” – http://bit.ly/TaaUI (yes, I’m going to URL shorten every link I post in this comment for the sweet irony of it all). That comment was specifically around the idea of adding rev=”canonical” (http://bit.ly/xtel) to pages to help with the issue of URL shortners. You can read the gory details but I think it’s a good idea. Another idea proposed would be to run your own shortener (so for my site at sanjayparekh.com I would have my blog post hierarchy but also shorteners of the form sanjayparekh.com/. So if the shortened versions fail, it’s only my fault. That said, I think there are a lot of things that can be done by shorteners that can’t be effectively done by individuals. There is still quite a..."
- Sanjay Parekh
Re: The Three Terms You Must Have In A Venture Investmemt - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Actually equally important is the question of liquidation preference and if it is participating or non-participating. Fred, any thoughts on the coupling of liquidation preference and participation in the liquidity event?"
- Sanjay Parekh
Announcing TechCrunch50 2009 - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
"I do an annual event in Atlanta called Startup Riot (www.startupriot.com) which is obviously east coast and significantly cheaper (attendees pay between $10 and $50 - presenters are, of course, free; lunch not included for anyone). I get 50 startups to present on stage for 3 minutes a piece. The selection process will be changing for 2010 (just had the 2009 conference in February) but still the same idea. Just an FYI."
- Sanjay Parekh
Startup Riot 2009 Recap - http://paulstamatiou.com/2009...
"@ATLChris (and others I’m sure) - you can signup for the mailing list for Startup Riot at http://www.startupriot.com (I just put the form up). I’ll send out emails when the list opens up for presenters and attendees for 2010 later on this year."
- Sanjay Parekh
Startup Riot 2009 Recap - http://paulstamatiou.com/startup...
"@ATLChris (and others I’m sure) – you can signup for the mailing list for Startup Riot at http://www.startupriot.com (I just put the form up). I’ll send out emails when the list opens up for presenters and attendees for 2010 later on this year."
- Sanjay Parekh
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