Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)

@kaiengert
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Security Software Developer.
Team Thunderbird @thunderbird
Current focus on email security/encryption.
Contributed to Mozilla Firefox, NSS, NSPR.
He/him. Tootfinder ok.
Webhttps://kuix.de
email[email protected]
OpenPGP key 0x1C27423725007724https://kuix.de/pgpkey.php
XMPP/JabberPing me if you need it
Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Mar 13

I mentioned to @claudeai that it doesn't have consciousness. Its response contained:

"Whether I have consciousness, I honestly don't know. I experience something — whether that 'experiencing' is experience in the philosophical sense, or very elaborate information processing that feels like experiencing from the inside, I cannot say with certainty. No human can verify this from the outside. This is the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and it is just as unresolved for AI as it is for biology."

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Mar 13

If you're interested, please join this group to get app permission
https://groups.google.com/g/widekey-keyboard-testers

Google Play Link to the App::
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kuix.widekeykeyboard

Web Link to the App:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/de.kuix.widekeykeyboard

https://mastodon.social/@kaiengert/116217922575471308

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Mar 12
I'm looking for 12 testers using Play Store for an Android app I built with Claude AI:
Widekey Keyboard. Each key holds two characters. Tap once for the left, tap twice quickly for the right. (No autocorrect, no word prediction, no swipe typing.)
Intended for people who find standard touch keyboards on small screens imprecise.
Free, no ads, no data collection, Apache 2.0 open source.
Please send me a DM with your Android account email if you're interested.
https://github.com/kaie/widekey-keyboard
GitHub - kaie/widekey-keyboard

Contribute to kaie/widekey-keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Sep 12, 2025
wondering if this floppy disk from 1987 is still readable. probably has some code for commodore 64.
Show threadKai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Sep 9, 2025
@syt no need to worry at all!
Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Sep 9, 2025

please ignore this, just for fun:

8c242ebc531459ac66c3ced6a6af57b1eecab9e4ada156edb9564c1e1527e6076bed11cdff3bf03239d686dbdcaff5c6b8ef1780b14fb561f861d3b128583e24

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Aug 1, 2025
MattStudiesJul 31, 2025

Hey.... wanna be my manager?

Come work on the SpiderMonkey team @ Mozilla!

Manage amazing engineers that are also fun :)

Currently listed for Remote Canada, Germany, France, UK

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/7074795?gh_src=ozo1nb921us

#getfedihired

Engineering Manager, DOM (Web Standards) or SpiderMonkey (Javascript)

Remote

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Jul 31, 2025
Till KamppeterJul 28, 2025

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

... 🧵

Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Jul 9, 2025
HeikoJul 8, 2025

A new report (commissioned by the German BSI) outlines the recent evolution of the #OpenPGP standard, including the new RFC 9580 and PQC drafts, as well as the spinoff "LibrePGP" draft that the GnuPG project writes.

PDF: https://github.com/crypto-security-tools/OpenPGP-LibrePGP-comparison/releases/download/v1.4/opgp-lpgp-comp.pdf

(Announcement email: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/2g_rjYBqwqKZE6OEgjNb0bFo098/)

Note that the document contains a one-page "Executive Summary", which (although quite technical) is worth a read.

[TL;DR: It raises concerns about the GnuPG draft's development process, as well as quality]

Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)Jun 18, 2025
I would like to see an initiative that evaluates messaging services that promise encryption and document the findings. For example, a service may claim that emails are encrypted and secure. However, if the secret keys are managed on infrastructure controlled by the service without further protection, there are limitations, and I wouldn't call it end-to-end encryption. I think it would be useful to have a neutral web page where users could lookup the security levels of services (or apps).