Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-21 Thread Michael Rogers
Sorry, I misremembered the problem I ran into when trying to configure Etherpad Lite with SSL support - the problem was with my certificate, not with Etherpad Lite. Thanks for the correction. Cheers, Michael Pavol Luptak wil...@trip.sk wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:10:28PM +0100, Michael

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-20 Thread Pavol Luptak
Hi, On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:25:39PM +0700, Sam de Silva wrote: Can someone help me out - Is http://www.piratepad.net secure? I thought it was, but I can't seem to access it via SSL. Download the source code of etherpad ( http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/ ), perform its security audit

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-20 Thread Pavol Luptak
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:10:28PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: As far as I know, the pad software used by PiratePad and similar services doesn't support SSL. It might be possible to combine the This is not true - etherpad supports SSL natively (directives sslKeyStore and sslStorePassword ). I

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread Alex Comninos
sorry I meant, obviously Provided that you are NOT worried about a subpoena from a US court/surveillance by US intelligence agencies. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Oct 2012, at 10:25, Sam de Silva wrote: Hi there, Can someone help me out - Is http://www.piratepad.net secure? I thought it was, but I can't seem to access it via SSL. It'll also be really useful to know of 'piratepad' type platforms

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread micah anderson
Alex Comninos alex.comni...@gmail.com writes: Why not just use Google docs? I'd turn that around and instead ask you why just use Google docs? Does not really seem like a tool built for security, rather it is designed for public pastes/publishing/cooperation It depends on what you are

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread André Rebentisch
Am 03.10.2012 17:28, schrieb Griffin Boyce: If you're looking to use it all the time (eg with your class, group, organization), then it might be worthwhile to host your own [1]. I advise against it. While many groups started to do that only few services are left operational. Most servers went

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Mallis
we were able to instantiate our own https etherpad lite service at: https://notes.occupy.net though we've had some trial and error, including data loss on the pads themselves. It can be tricky. Self-signed cert is being used on the domain; some services are being relocated of the the next week

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread Sam de Silva
Hi All, Thanks for your comments and feedback. I am often in low bandwidth contexts, and find Google Docs just too heavy. I looked at installing Etherpad on a server - but perhaps will hold off on that and utilise Riseup's install. @Micah - often 30 days will be too long for my use, or in