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2874d11BIND 9’s new logo!
If you’ve visited ISC s GitLab instance in the last few days, you may have noticed something: BIND 9 has a new logo!
2876d317RFC 8467: Padding Policies for Extension Mechanisms for...
Chiffrer pour assurer la confidentialité, c'est bien. Pour le DNS, c'est ce que permet le RFC 7858 (DNS sur TLS). Mais un problème de TLS et de pas mal d'autres protocoles cryptographiques est qu'il ne dissimule pas les...
2878d316Journée de la Sécurité Informatique en Normandie ;...
Des conférences sur la sécurité informatique, il y en a trois par jour en France, parfois dans la même ville. On peut passer sa vie professionnelle à aller à de telles conférences. Mais elles sont plus ou moins...
2878d61Tweets of November 30 2018
Replying to @isomer https://github.com/miekg/dns/pull/840 Apparently very useful when you want to implement dns tunneling (and universally blocked obvs) Fri Nov 30 07:43:49 +0000 2018 RT @01k: static vs dynamic...
2879d352RFC 8386: Privacy Considerations for Protocols Relying on...
Plusieurs protocoles applicatifs utilisent la diffusion, par exemple pour la découverte d'un service, et envoient donc des messages qui vont toucher toutes les machines du réseau local. Cela a des conséquences pour la...
2879d380Exclusive: Tiny island sues to take control of lucrative...
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS)...
2880d285Belgium to crack down on fraud domains
DNS Belgium says it will shortly implement a new policy that will see it take down .be domains associated with fraud within 24 hours of discovering them. The new scheme, which comes into effect December 1, essentially...
2881d309.cloud gets the China blessing
.cloud, run by Italian registry Aruba, has become the latest TLD to get the official nod to sell in China. The blessing from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology came at the end of October and the company...
2881d365Donuts backs away from .spa fight
Donuts has finally admitted defeat in its long-running fight to run the .spa gTLD, withdrawing its application and leaving rival Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council the victor. ASWPC, run from Hong Kong by .asia s...
2881d369PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8 Released
We’ve released PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8. This release fixes Security Advisory 2018-09 that we recently discovered, affecting PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.1.7.  PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.x and below are...
2883d353Passage de ce blog à Let's Encrypt
Bon, comme la Terre entière, je suis passé à Let's Encrypt. Ce blog est désormais systématiquement en HTTPS pour tout le monde.
2884d305First chance to have your say on the future of Whois
RIP: the Whois Admin. Standard Whois output is set to get slimmed down further under upcoming policy proposals. The community working group looking at post-GDPR Whois has decided that the Admin contact is no longer...
2885d285RFC 8404: Effects of Pervasive Encryption on Operators
La vie privée sur l'Internet fait aujourd'hui l'objet d'innombrables attaques et l'une des techniques de défense les plus efficaces contre ces attaques est le chiffrement des données. Il protège également contre une...
2886d590Uniregistry working on bulk trademark blocking service
Uniregistry is planning to launch a bulk trademark block service, along the same lines as Donuts Domain Protected Marks List. But it s going to be roughly 50% more expensive than DPML, on a per-TLD basis. The company has...
2887d495ICANN urged to reject .com price increases
The Internet Commerce Association has asked ICANN to refuse to allow Verisign to raise its wholesale prices for .com domain names. The domainer trade group wrote to ICANN last week to point out that just because the...
2887d362Nominet takes down 32,000 domains for IP infringement
The number of .uk domains suspended by Nominet has doubled over the last year, almost entirely due to takedown requests concerning intellectual property. The .uk registry said this week that it suspended 32,813 domains...
2887d410Hebrew .com off to a slow start
The Hebrew transliteration of .com has only sold a couple hundred domains since it went into general availability. Verisign took the new gTLD קום. (Hebrew is a right-to-left script, so the dot comes after the string) to...
2887d535Incel hate site jumps to Iceland after doMEn suspends .me...
Incels.me, a web forum that hosts misogynist rants by involuntarily celibate men, has found a new home after .me registry doMEn suspended its domain. The web site has reappeared, apparently unscathed, under Iceland s .is...
2887d321« Logiciel libre » et « Open Source », c'est pareil ou...
On entend parfois, dans les discussions autour des licences logicielles, des affirmations du genre « tel logiciel n'est pas libre mais il est open source ». Quelle est la différence ? Y en a-t-il une, d'ailleurs ?
2889d434Capitole du Libre 2018 (et mon exposé sur « Internet et...
Les 17 et 18 novembre 2018, c'était Capitole du Libre (https://2018.capitoledulibre.org/), grand rassemblement annuel de centaines de libristes à Toulouse, dans les locaux de l'ENSEEIHT. À cette occasion, j'y ai fait un...
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