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  1. From a university perspective by finkployd · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Does Your Company Use a PKI Solution?

    For some internal (non user-facing) things I have used a self signed cert; for example when prototyping cosign (web single sign on).

    In the past we have rolled out a CA signed by CREN. This was a pretty small rollout and used for just Shibboleth, S/MIME, Web Auth, and some limited classroom work using handheld devices. At this point we are using mostly Thawte Freemail for S/MIME and CACERT for S/MIME, PDF signing, 802.1x, and a odd series of other tests/work.

    This is less than ideal since we end up beholden to corporate groups, but there is something good on the horizon, USHER Usher is a higher ED CA being put together by Internet2 which will be cross certified with the Federal CA bridge. Basically what CREN was supposed to be, only with more backing and interest.

    The nice thing about it is that we will get a signing cert to use at will rather than paying someone like Verisign per certificate which is not gonna happen with 138,000 users, especially if we wish to do any kind of PKI-LITE setup (where short term "junk certs" are issued on demand eliminating the need for a CRL which nobody has figured out how to do right yet).

  2. Compatability. by Talinom · · Score: 1 · on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader

    But is it compatable with papyrus?

  3. Could it be worse? by uncoveror · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Bono (Not That Bono) Would Like To Head The RIAA
    Mary Bono as head of the RIAA? Consider that she is the widow of Sonny Bono, who wanted to make copyright perpetual, after whom the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension act was posthumously named. She would likely go out of her way to kill off fair use and the public domain forever, the first sale principle is probably in her crosshairs too. Could there possibly be a worse person for the job? We could soon find ourselves missing Hilary Rosen. Boycott the recording industry. Don't buy CDs.

    More about these issues.

  4. Re:Non-commercial authorities / .EDU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority?

    There is already such a project:

    http://www.cren.net/crenca/

    The big problems apparently are that each .EDU still has to pay some sort of annual membership-type fee to CREN in order to qualify to use their digital certificate services, looks like you still have individually install the CREN root CA certificate into your browsers to be trusted, and it now looks like the members recently voted for the organization to be completely dissolved (however, perhaps the digital certificates services will be moved to some other .EDU-related organization?).

  5. Re:Non-commercial authorities / .EDU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority?

    There is already such a project:

    http://www.cren.net/crenca/

    The big problems apparently are that each .EDU still has to pay some sort of annual membership-type fee to CREN in order to qualify to use their digital certificate services, looks like you still have individually install the CREN root CA certificate into your browsers to be trusted, and it now looks like the members recently voted for the organization to be completely dissolved (however, perhaps the digital certificates services will be moved to some other .EDU-related organization?).

  6. ListProc by chad_r · · Score: 1 · on Mailing List Managers?

    The Listproc MLM was closed source for a long time, but has recently gone open source. The source can be found on SourceForge, and appears to be using the Netscape Public License.

    It doesn't use a relational database. It uses text files for configuration and subscriber lists, and then builds dbm files for quicker lookups. It does have a web front end. It has a crude bounce management--you can set a per list option to auto-delete any address that bounces multiple times. But it's not foolproof, and it doesn't have something more reliable like address probing.

  7. Changing the way we teach by Didian · · Score: 1 · on Both Students and Teachers Use Technology to Cheat

    This "absentee education" was inevitable and, of course, no one's ideal way to learn. And as the author points out, finding a way to go back to the "good ole' days" isn't the answer.

    We must re-examine how we learn and how we teach. What skills are truly important? What information is vital? What information is required for further learning? How are cognitive skills attained? How do we learn to think?

    How are new concepts grasped? What is the best way to present those concepts? What is the best way to evaluate an understanding of concepts?

    This is merely the front of a very massive wave that will change the way we teach.

    For more ramblings on this subject:
    http://www.cren.net/~jboettch/look.html