— Jürgen Kreileder / Software Engineer and Consultant Sat, 29 Oct 2016 01:50:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 5303222Jürgen Kreileder/jk-rss.jpg/144114Software Engineer and Consultant Facebook Chat Via XMPP Finally Supports TLS /articles/facebook-chat-via-xmpp-finally-supports-tls/ /articles/facebook-chat-via-xmpp-finally-supports-tls/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:29:57 +0000 http://blog.blackdown.de/?p=489 Looks like Facebook silently introduced encryption for chats in XMPP/Jabber clients (Pidgin, Adium, etc.): Its servers now support the use of TLS as defined in RFC 3920.

Facebook’s FAQs (1, 2) have not been updated accordingly yet.

]]> /articles/facebook-chat-via-xmpp-finally-supports-tls/feed/ 4 489 Google SSL Search Plug-In for Firefox /articles/google-ssl-search-plug-in-for-firefox/ Sat, 22 May 2010 23:09:38 +0000 http://blog.blackdown.de/?p=424 As of today Google finally supports searching over SSL. Expectedly, you can use it via https://www.google.com/.

Firefox’s built-in search capabilities still use the unencrypted search, though. To remedy this I built an OpenSearch plug-in which makes Firefox use the HTTPS-based search:

Install Google Secure Search Plug-In

(Read more about Google’s SSL Search here)

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