Mozilla Persona
In Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker's DrupalCon Denver 2012 keynote she announced a new web authentication system they are developing called Mozilla Persona. It's a federated and open standard that...
View ArticleThere are not 1024 bytes in a kilobyte!
According to the SI standard, there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte.There is another standard called IEC that has 1024 bytes in a kibibyte, but this is only useful when measuring things that are naturally...
View ArticleLet's make Drupal 8 support SVGZ (IIS tester required)
SVGZ is just SVG compressed with gzip. Any web browser that supports SVG supports SVGZ as the files are just served with a gzip encoding.It is part of the SVG standard: SVG images, being XML, contain...
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Drupal & Bitcoin
Almost everything we do on the web will work better with autonomous blockchain technologies such as Bitcoin& ethereum because they allow systems to be built with unbreakable rules. Unlike Facebook,...
View ArticleGenerating safe markup in Drupal 8
The most insecure part of a Drupal website is typically the theme. Drupal 8 is using Twig as its template layer. This is a massive leap forward. It's no longer possible to put SQL queries in a template...
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Update on Drupal / Bitcoin Payment Protocol (BIP 70) integration
Previously: Drupal & Bitcoin Also: Drupal / Bitcoin BIP 70 / PKI certificatesBIP 70 describes a high-level payment system for Bitcoin. It uses Protocol Buffers and X.509 certificates for the...
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Drupal / Bitcoin BIP 70 / PKI certificates
Previously: Update on Drupal / Bitcoin Payment Protocol (BIP 70) integration Also: Using HD Bitcoin wallets with Drupal Coin Tools BIP 70 provides a mechanism so that a customer can be sure that they...
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Using HD Bitcoin wallets with Drupal Coin Tools
Previously: Drupal / Bitcoin BIP 70 / PKI certificates Also: Ensuring security of funds and preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin for e-commerce Each Coin Tools payment needs its own Bitcoin address....
View ArticleUsing Bitcoin dust transactions to prevent website spam
Previously: Ensuring security of funds and preserving anonymity when using Bitcoin for e-commerce I quite often use Mollom to prevent spam submissions on contact and comment forms. It works pretty...
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Bitcoin transaction forwarding
Forwarding of individual Bitcoin transactions to one or more addresses is a new feature in Coin Tools.Because it spends the outputs from the transaction that is being forwarded instead of making a...
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