kuix.de

There are a few blog posts.
This server hosts a lot of random tests related to my work, on many non-standard ports, most of them are in the /misc directory. There isn't any index of them.

I work at Red Hat, Inc. on software engineering projects related to Internet security and cryptography protocols. However, this site is run by myself, and the opinions expressed on this site are my own.
I'm a Linux user, and I contribute to the Fedora project. I appreciate the ideas of open source and free software.
I've been a contributor to the Mozilla project since 2001, including the NSS security library and the security features of the Firefox and Thunderbird applications.
Sometimes I post to Twitter or Mastodon.
You can reach me by email or xmpp/jabber with username kaie at this domain (without www).

Send me encrypted email using my my new PGP/GPG key (ID 25007724) (signed it using old PGP/GPG key 9379950e).
You can also find my information at keybase.io
You could use this form to find the trust path from your GPG key ID to mine:
Or you could try to use S/MIME, you can find my certificate in the S/MIME keyserver that I run on this site as a free service.

Some brainstorming about solving the issues around the detection of compromised Certificate Authorities, which I call Mutually Endorsing CA Infrastructure (MECAI).
I described an idea to implement client side SSL/TLS MITM detection compromised CA detection and server impersonation detection, by making use of the Tor network, DetecTor. (This isn't affiliated with the Tor project)
I had this idea of a new countermeasure to Spam, which I called SpamSalt. Let's see if anyone likes it and implements it...
some older projects.

donate to the Mozilla project, because you really want a free browser, that allows you to access the information of the world for free, without being dependent on corporations, right?
donate to Wikipedia, because it protects our knowledge, and helps to educate the world for free, and you're using it too, right?
donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, because they help to protect the rights of us individuals in a digital world.

kuix means Kai's Ultimate Information eXchange, a meaning I had to invent, after I picked one of the few short domains that were still available... ;-)

kuix.de - Kai Engert's homepage