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Weblog software to use PKI/PGP?

By dries on

Bill Humphries wrote:

    Frank Booseman would like blog tools to support walled garden posting. He's inspired when a friend would love to post photos from a party, but not to the whole world. Live Journal, which I've been playing with lately, supports this. It can, because it's a monolithic (on the server-side) application. I created a LJ account, and friends who were already there added me to their 'friends' list, and added them to mine. They post a private entry, and their friends see it, but not others.

Pete Prodoehl suggested to look at Drupal, to which Bill responded:

    Drupal's a nice system, but it doesn't do what I really want: I'd like a system which does not require the user to set up an account. I'd like to get a token in the request that says "I'm Jane User, and here's my assertation that I'm Jane User", and since Jane User is my friend and her assertation could be verified (though a public directory, or because someone I trust has signed her key), she gains access to the friends and family-only materials on the server without signing in. And, the key piece is that this may be the first time she's been on the site.
    Live Journal can do that because all the journals are part of the application, and I sign on once. Any LJ user can recognize me as their friend, and I get access to their friends-only materials.
    The godsawful piece is the public key infrastructure.

Which reminds me of this blog entry where Paul Bausch describes how he experimented with PGP-signed comments and how he think it would be a good way to verify identities. The talented folks behind MovableType picked up the tread saying that it could possibly be used to build a web-based verification service with a trust web.

As online communities (incl. the weblog community) continue to grow, and as more and more websites become interactive, identity theft might become a big enough problem that we'll want to deal with it. An interesting challenge for 2003?.

Migrating Movable Type to Drupal

By fuzzygroup on

Three cheers to Michael who just migrated out of Movable Type and into Drupal Hip Hip Hooray Here's his blog: Michael and here's where I write about it on my blog.

Not only did Michael do an outstanding job on the content migration but his Drupal blog has a great theme -- it really looks like a lovely blog page and not like every other Drupal site. He also did a nice job of implementing Drupal Image Gallery

phpBB2/gallery Integration?

By lotussteve@cargal.org on

Hello

I have two questions:

I constantly run in the problem that new users, who have signed up in my drupal or in my phpBB2 try to use username and passwortd in the other appilcation, fail and are puzzled. Before i go and solve this with LDAP i want to ask if there are plans to integrate phpBB2 into drupal like in the *nuke-programs (i only use drupal, no experience with those)?

Filters for *bleep*ing

By pcam on

Hi, Folks

I'm new here.. been lurking a couple of days..
Installed 4.0 & I'm impressed with the functionality of Drupal.

Question: Maybe I've just missed it somewhere... but what about language (as in foul) filters?

My planned implementation of Drupal will be for a kids&teens site, so I'm looking for the capability to specify a list of words that should be *bleeped* or replaced with alternate words when posted.

When I click on administration/filters, just the text "error" comes up. Any ideas on how to remedy that?

Weekly database optimization

By inerte@inerciasensorial.com.br on

I think a cron job should be setup to optimize database tables every week. The first time I did the database shrink to half of the size. Nowadays, I usually run PhpMyAdmin option to optimize every table every three or four days. Usually, it becomes 20% smaller....

I don't know if it is a problem related only to my webhost provider configurations, so if you could try it, and post the results, we could determine if there is indeed a general problem or I have something misconfigured...

smurf amplifiers

By bertboerland on

[posted this as a blog on http://www.drupal.org/module.php?mod=comment&op=reply&id=684]

have noticed that my cron.php script on my site can take quite some time; up to minutes and some cpu cycles.

now i was thinking, if i would wget the cron.php's on these known drupal sites, i will make it harder on these sites and harder on drupal.org as well, since these sites will update drupal.org pages as well.

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