Christopher Allen
Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer— Co-author TLS Security Standard—Collaborative Tools & Patterns
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statement on event-stream compromise
statement on event-stream compromise. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Someone slipped a vuln into crypto-wallets via an NPM package. Then someone else siphoned off $13m in coins to protect it from thieves
What a wild ride, eh Komodo?
Christopher Allen
NPM cryptocurrency attack: theregister.co.uk/2019/06/07/kom…
Details: github.com/dominictarr/ev…
28h
Two malicious Python libraries removed from PyPI
One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year.
The pitfalls of multisig when using hardware wallets
Instead of holding your bitcoins with a single set of keys, you can also hold your bitcoins with several sets of keys. This is known as…
About Quad9 DNS
Quad9 is a free, recursive, anycast DNS platform that provides end users robust security protections, high-performance, and privacy.
Christopher Allen
In our Bitcoin Standup scripts (currently macOS, Debian Linux, Linode using Debian) we try to support at least some best practices of basic hardening. We install firewalls and tor on all of them, FileVault on macOS, etc. What else?
Thoughts on DNS? Quad9?
3d
BlockchainCommons/Bitcoin-Standup
Tools, Best Practices & Standards to Standup a Bitcoin-Core full node on a fresh computer or VPS - BlockchainCommons/Bitcoin-Standup
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Lost Study: World of Warcraft MMORPG
In the early drafts of Meeples Together, our topics were more far-ranging and so we included case studies of things like American Football and the Dungeons & Dragons game, which were cut as we …
GPG / Minisign Circle for @ChristopherA
GPG / Minisign Circle for @ChristopherA. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Christopher Allen
My minisign public key, signed by my minisign public key, signed by my GPG public key, signed by my minisign public key, all committed to gist.github.com/ChristopherA/c… signed my GPG key, which you can see is my GitHub GPG key for Github account @ChristopherA at github.com/ChristopherA.g…
10d
LSAT Litcon Talk
Subtitle LSAT: Your Ticket Aboard the Internet’s Money Rails Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef CTO & Co-Founder Lightning Labs
Meditations on Thinkspot
and design considerations
Christopher Allen
When Social Networking Services try to do more than this is when they fail me: “the trick to designing a quality social media platform is to create it in such a way that everyone decides for themselves who to listen to, when, and what for”—@timpastoor
19d
How to Authenticate with Tor V3 using StandUp and FullyNoded - Easily secure your remote connection
Easily authenticate your client connection to your bitcoin full node using built in Tor V3 authentication with StandUp and FullyNoded.
ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic
Experimental techniques for private keys to be expressed as iambic metered rhymed verse, to aid in their memorization. - ChristopherA/iambic-mnemonic
Christopher Allen
@pavolrusnak @BTCSocialist I have some much better word lists than BIP39 to offer, as well as tools to make better word lists. The SLIP39 wordlist also used some of these techniques: github.com/ChristopherA/i… & github.com/ChristopherA/p…
22d
Web of Trust: A Taxonomy for Claims
This article is the first part of a series exploring how a ‘Web of Trust’ may take shape as cryptographic systems evolve. A well developed…
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Christopher Allen
A challenge to us in the Verifiable Credentials & DID community is that we have been addressing the problem of claims about identity OF people, but what many people want is verifiable claims BY people. I like this paper but there are name space collisions
22d
MikeMcQuaid/strap
:boot: Bootstrap your macOS development system. Contribute to MikeMcQuaid/strap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Christopher Allen
@brucefenton If Mac, start with GitHub.com/mikemcquaid/St… — will set security basics and minimal development system allowing for secure app install (like bitcoin-core). Our Bitcoin Standup app requires Strap to be run first.
22d
Staying True to SSI Principles: Our Concerns about GADI
The DID Alliance's newly launched GADI has potential to move the industry forward, but are its core principles aligned with those of decentralized identity?
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