Last friday we quietly rolled out a new service called URI:teller. When I say “quietly” I don’t count our friends whom we immediately spammed with links to uriteller.io. Sorry about that, friends! #notsorry URI:what? We built URI:teller to scratch a specific itch: Verifying that end-to-end encrypted messaging apps don’t leak links…

An update to “A Trainy Rain Trip with Rustls and TryTLS”. Rustls now passes all current TryTLS tests. Still having fun. — About a week ago I posted a about my experiences testing Rustls with TryTLS. A quick recap: Rustls is a TLS library written in the programming languare Rust. TryTLS is a tool for testing TLS library implementations. The aim was to offer both perfectly cromulent TLS connections as well as some…

Wrote my first Rust program. It was for testing Rustls with TryTLS. Rustls did well. Had fun. — Update: There’s a sequel to this post. Spoilers: The tests themselves needed fixing, and now Rustls passes all of them. During the past summer I got to work on a tool called TryTLS, a tool for testing how libraries use TLS. The idea is to use your language/library-combo of choice…