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duckpond.ch

Personal blog · duckpond.ch · on HN as Entesecuritysystems

duckpond.ch is a personal blog at duckpond.ch about security and systems. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Xt_sslpin: match SSL/TLS certificate finger prints at the netfilter level”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on xt_sslpin, a Linux netfilter module that adds certificate pinning. One commenter cites it as a companion to the Windows 10 undocumented pinning thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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The author on HN?

Ente · 28 karma · member since 2016

I like ducks! * ... and writing code: https://github.com/Enteee * ... and blogging: https://duckpond.ch

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Xt_sslpin: match SSL/TLS certificate finger prints at the netfilter level
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-09
  2. ReMarkable: Scripts, NixOS derivations and lessons learned
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. eeZi · 2016-09-25
    An attempt to do something similar with netfilter/Linux: https://github.com/fredburger/xt_sslpin Recent fork: https://github.com/Enteee/xt_sslpin Someone's blog post about it: https://duckpond.ch/networking/security/2016/09/09/xt_sslpin... /r/netsec discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/52me9w/xt_sslpin_ma... I like the idea.

    Comment linking /networking/security/2016/09/09/xt_sslpin.html

    on “Windows 10 has an undocumented certificate pinning feature”
  2. Ente · 2020-02-25

    Submitted Types for PlantUML: Parsing PlantUML with TypeScript in a few simple steps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Ente · 2020-01-08

    Submitted ReMarkable: Scripts, NixOS derivations and lessons learned as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Ente · 2020-10-20

    Submitted Count Beta Release – An OSS Counting App with Ionic as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Ente · 2019-10-29

    Submitted Udev Rule Script Template as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Ente · 2019-07-08

    Submitted Git-submodule-url-rewrite: Migrate a Git Repository with Submodules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Ente · 2017-05-19

    Submitted Show HN: Broken One-time pad 2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Ente · 2016-09-09

    Submitted Xt_sslpin: match SSL/TLS certificate finger prints at the netfilter level as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. oumua_don17 · 2023-09-15

    Submitted Remarkable (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Ente · 2020-08-13

    Submitted Disable ReMarkable Touchscreen with Evkill as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Ente · 2019-05-11

    Submitted Tofu for Containers: Running containers behind a HTTPS scanning proxy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Ente · 2016-09-15

    Submitted Broken One-time pad: Let's implement crypto and break it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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