Matt Holt on CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, TLS

This episode wins the contest for the most protocols discussed. Matt Holt joined the show to to talk about TLS, Let’s Encrypt, the ACME protocol, CaddyServer, and a host of other important information security issues.

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Featuring:

• Matt Holt – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• CaddyServer
• Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core (blog post)
• Papaparse: a CSV parser for the browser
• websocketd: Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.
• Let’s Encrypt: free SSL certificates
• PKI (wikipedia)
• Key concepts of information security: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Non-repudiation
• Bulletproof TLS Newsletter
• ACME Protocole
• Extended Validation Certificate
• Manage TLS certificates automatically via LetsEncrypt.org
• Automated wrapper to add let’s encrypt support to go servers

Interesting Go Projects and News

• GopherCon Brasil sponsorship prospectus
• Hewlett Packard Go AST Scanner
• Static analysis tool for Go that protects against SQL injections
• Synchronization, error propagation, and Context cancelation for groups of goroutines working on subtasks of a common task
• Brad Fitzpatrick’s functest library
• Go wrapper for the .NET Core Runtime
• Fatih’s vim-go tutorial
• Keep track of upcoming vim-go features

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- Python
• Carlisia - Exercism good first patches
• Matt - A QUIC protocol server implementation in pure Go: faster HTTPS communication
• Erik - Mosh: the mobile shell, Wireshack Troubleshooting with Wireshark: Locate the Source of Performance Problems (book) , and TCP Dump

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