Topics of the day: IPv6 and SSL.

 IPv6:  Since  December  2012,  I've been using an IPv6 tunnel using my
 server on the internet as a gateway. Back  then,  using  SSH  was  the
 easiest  option.[1] But it was so ugly that I never actually published
 my code. Today, I refurbished the whole  thing  --  using  OpenVPN.[2]
 It's  interesting  to  see  that  quite a lot of web pages are already
 accessible  via  IPv6.  I  monitor  that  using  the   Firefox   addon
 SixOrNot.[3]

 SSL: I set up HTTPS for my web server. I'm well aware that SSL is kind
 of broken and does not provide real security.  But  it's  better  than
 nothing.  I use certificates signed by CAcert for two reasons: I don't
 want to pay (see also [4]) and I like the idea of a community project.
 Sure,  distributions  are  removing  CAcert from their trust stores. I
 have no idea why because very obscure CAs are  still  included.  Maybe
 I'll switch to StartSSL if CAcert turns out to be too much hazzle.

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 1. gopher://uninformativ.de/0/twitpher/2012-12/2012-12-28.txt

 2. gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/posts/post.00210.2015-03-24--12-46-18.txt

 3. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sixornot/

 4. https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b25933c5

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