Client Authentication with SSL Most of you will be aware that I’m in the process of setting up a new box for the website. As part of that process, I’m strengthening some of the administration functions. Specifically, I’m adding client authentication to make that that only my browser can access these features. In short, only […]
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San Jose bound… Welcome to the wonderful world of USA air travel. I had been warned. I knew what I was getting into. But I was naive. Or perhaps just stupid. But I’m wiser now. I rarely make the same mistakes twice. Well, there was that little problem back in ’95 with US Customs, but
Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel This article was written by John J. Rushford Jr. jjr@alisa.org Last modified 5/26/01 See also this ONLamp article. Introduction Recently I was approached by a friend that has a scanning and imaging business focused on imaging legal documents for large law firms. He has two offices one located in
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Using smtp from remote locations Regular readers will know that I’m in Ottawa for a short trip. That means you know something my parents don’t know yet. They’re still in Portugal on holiday. I’ll be picking them up upon their return. That’s when they’ll find out I’m visiting. Before I left, I set up an
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qpopper with APOP The Post Office Protocol (POP) can be used to obtain your mail from a remote server. Mail can be delivered to a central location and everyone retrieves their mail from that box. This is fine over a trusted network (e.g. your home LAN). But over an untrusted network (e.g. the Internet),
installing bind8 from ports Over the past two months, there have been two security issues regarding bind. If you didn’t upgrade for the first notice, then the recent worm threat should have prompted you to get moving. Back in January, when the initial bind security notice was issued, some talk was made of how best
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Setting up an encrypted file system This article was written by Niklas Saers I had long been hearing from my Linux using friends about their different encrypted filesystems and wanted one for FreeBSD. The reasons for this are many: I have copies of all my emails and mails from the golden BBS days until now
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IPsec This article was written by Greg Panula. This is just my notes from setting up ipsec between two test boxes; phoenix and cardinal. See also this ONLamp article. The test uses both AH and ESP; packet and payload encryption. It is a test of transport mode, i.e. direct communications between two hosts. In order
mindterm – ssh connections via web browsers Yesterday, I was writing about a webmail application. The main reason I was installing that was to access my mail via a web broswer. I spend time at sites without ssh access. Today I was told about an ssh connection which can be acheived via a web broswer:
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turning sendmail VRFY off A few days ago, I found the following entries in my mail logs. The email addresses have been changed, because I can. sendmail[35274]: NOQUEUE: sdsl-216-34-236-194.dsl.lax.megapath.net [216.34.236.194]: VRFY <someuser@example.org> sendmail[35275]: NOQUEUE: sdsl-216-34-236-194.dsl.lax.megapath.net [216.34.236.194]: VRFY IntentionallyInvalidUzer This appears, at face value, to be someone running a script to see whether or not my
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