Welcome to Mallos

Mallos is the name of a small, but beautiful flower.

According to J.R.R. Tolkien, the elf Legolas sang the following words about this flower and the place where it grows:

Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
In the green fields of Lebennin!
Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea
The white lilies sway,
And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin
In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!

Internet Censorship

Since 1 February 2012, the Internet Service Providers (ISP's) XS4ALL and Ziggo are forced by court to block internet traffic between the systems of mallos.nl (and all other customers of both ISP's) and IP's and domains related to The Pirate Bay. Blocking the traffic is no more than a little nuisance as many third parties are offering a non-blocked route as an alternative, like this link https://tpb.piratenpartij.nl/ or for multiple solutions http://www.ikwilthepiratebay.nl/.

However, it is a first step towards internet censorship in the Netherlands which is a bad thing, no matter what cause. Dutch citizens can raise their voice against this censorship http://vrijinternetinwet.petities.nl/.

Services

Time (NTP)

This system usually provides accurate time via the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is one of the approximately 2000 servers in the NTP pool. See http://www.pool.ntp.org how to use this pool of time servers to synchronise the clock on your PC.

Public PGP keys (HKP)

This system provides an interface to the PGP-key database via http://pgpkeys.mallos.nl:11371/ (or in your GPG software, configure keyserver x-hkp://pgpkeys.mallos.nl) The database is constantly synchronised with other PGP-key servers around the globe. You can also configure "keyserver x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net" to use a random, reachable key server. Here you can found more information about this pool project.

Encryption

Part of this site is encrypted to list key information and to provide specific services to registered users. The certificate of this site is issued and signed by CAcert.org. Most browsers already ship with the so called 'Root certificate' of CAcert.org.

If your browser is one of the exceptions (most notably, Microsoft Internet Explorer), It will throw the most frightening warnings at you. To end these warnings you can add the CAcert.org root certificates here (just click on " Root Certificate (PEM Format) " and " Intermediate Certificate (PEM Format) "). When you install the CAcert.org certificates, you should pay good attention to the fingerprint of the root certificate:

Fingerprint SHA1: 13:5C:EC:36:F4:9C:B8:E9:3B:1A:B2:70:CD:80:88:46:76:CE:8F:33
Fingerprint MD5: A6:1B:37:5E:39:0D:9C:36:54:EE:BD:20:31:46:1F:6B

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