Dr Ian Preston

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icon company @Peergos icon location Oxford icon location I love physics, algebra, topology, emulation and virtual machines, cryptography and distributed systems.

Results 95 issues of Dr Ian Preston

Fix concurrent user initiated uploads

Use a global BufferedNetwork, so that uploads wait for previous ones to complete before starting.

Clear old failed server-side transactions and thus allow the blocks to be GC'd and quota released.

Upload progress bar for multi GiB files goes off the edge

Store and display last login source

Store it on the server encrypted to the boxing keypair. Store up to 100 logins to get history. It can include the source IP, user agent if available and the...

Account export/restore

Export enough information to restore your identity on a new server (without data or friends) This is the login salt and alg, plus the login data

GC mutable pointers

Only retain pointers that are reachable from local users or pki. Adjust usage when removing.

Implement 2FA using webauthn

Store a new secret on your server which is only released after webauthn. This is then mixed in to the password derived login to derive the full login credentials (in...

CLI for downgrading/deleting a user

Send email when payment attempt fails

Make social feed only import things shared with you after each user became a friend

This should be doable by just checkpointing the feed state of that friend without importing the items. They do need to be imported to the file system view however.