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Alexa Top 1 Million Crawl - August 2016

It's been 6 months since my last crawl of the Alexa Top 1 Million so it's time to dust off my servers and fire them up...

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securityheaders.io

Short URLs for securityheaders.io

I had a spare hour over the weekend and I wanted to do something fun, so I created a short URL service for securityheaders.io! This is how I did...

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research

One password reset to rule them all!

A company called Ecotricity recently launched a new app in the UK. They are a utility provider for your gas and electric but also run a nationwide network of charge...

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HSTS

Testing the HSTS preload process

My registrar had an offer on domains so I figured I'd grab one and test out the HSTS preload process as it currently stands. I want to track...

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RSA

Hybrid RSA and ECDSA certificates with NginX

NginX version 1.11.0 just became available and that means we can now serve both RSA and ECDSA certificates for maximum performance without having to drop support for older...

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hashing

Disclosing password storage policies on report-uri.io

After every breach hits the news, I, along with everyone else, receive the dreaded email asking me to reset my password. The email told me that my leaked password was...

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ECDSA

Testing out ECDSA certificates

Let's Encrypt recently started signing certificates that use ECDSA keys so I figured I'd grab one and give it a try. ECDSA offers considerable increases in...

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report-uri.io

Optimising for performance with Azure Table Storage

I recently announced another huge update for https://report-uri.io and I covered all of the new features in a separate blog [https://scotthelme.co.uk/better-performance-and-custom-subdomains-on-report-uri-io/] . Alongside that I&...