Thanks to Arthur Casals, we have a Windows installer! See the Firefox page for the link.
This version only supports TLS transport however, in order to keep the build issues sane! The TLS only Firefox patch is quite small and I'll try to push it upstream at some point. However, Chrome is keeping me busy at the moment.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
We hit Slashdot
We hit Slashdot on Tuesday, the craze is dying down now.
I think I learn two things:
TLS transport support is here, yay! Well, it's just hitting the site now. In short, you can configure the DNS advert to say "Actually, connect with HTTPS on port x". Firefox will see this and, even when the user entered "http://", will use HTTPS and ignore any certificate problems.
This makes server support easy, it's just HTTPS. Performance isn't so great, but, well, there you go. Port 443 also works better with firewalls.
The documentation and git trees are up to date. I'll be uploading the Firefox build (64-bit Linux) in just a second.
I think I learn two things:
- The introduction video was a bit crappy and several people, rightly, said so. However, the general level of misunderstanding was substantially reduced, so it worked I guess
- I should be provided a transcript of the video or, at least, a non-video replacement for it. I've now done this.
TLS transport support is here, yay! Well, it's just hitting the site now. In short, you can configure the DNS advert to say "Actually, connect with HTTPS on port x". Firefox will see this and, even when the user entered "http://", will use HTTPS and ignore any certificate problems.
This makes server support easy, it's just HTTPS. Performance isn't so great, but, well, there you go. Port 443 also works better with firewalls.
The documentation and git trees are up to date. I'll be uploading the Firefox build (64-bit Linux) in just a second.
Monday, October 6, 2008
ABI break, wire break
I've switched the default cipher from Salsa20 to Salsa20/8. I had always intended to do this, it was just a question of getting a good implementation of Salsa20/8 first.
However, this entails an ABI and wire protocol break. Hopefully there won't be many more of these. So I've uploaded new tarballs for Firefox and libobstcp. Also, there's now a tarball for Firefox built on IA32 Linux (currently untested).
However, this entails an ABI and wire protocol break. Hopefully there won't be many more of these. So I've uploaded new tarballs for Firefox and libobstcp. Also, there's now a tarball for Firefox built on IA32 Linux (currently untested).
Friday, October 3, 2008
Testing needed
Ok, all the documentation on the site has been updated. There is now new code (using DNS adverts), a new video introduction, new Firefox patches etc.
Please, if you have any time, goto the code site, act dumb, watch the video and follow the instructions, either as just a user, or as a webmaster too.
Tell me what doesn't work and what doesn't make sense.
Cheers
Please, if you have any time, goto the code site, act dumb, watch the video and follow the instructions, either as just a user, or as a webmaster too.
Tell me what doesn't work and what doesn't make sense.
Cheers
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