Fresh on the heels of the OTD win comes news that some really big players in the encryption field have killed the Openssl FIPS-140 certification. Those players stand to loose a ton of money (millions? billions?) if there’s a viable Open Source alternative out there and I’m guessing there was more than a little bit [...]

Haven’t blogged in a while, too much going on, this seemed important enough tho… Slashdot | OpenSSL Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation

Meethune showed me a really cool new feature inOpenSSH 4.2 called multiplexing. In short, it allows you to connect once to a remote host, then simply uses a socket to reuse that connection for new login shells. To use add: Host * ControlPath ~/.ssh/ctl-%r-%h-%p ControlMaster auto to the beginning of your ~/.ssh/config and enjoy! To [...]

I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received since it screws with the Kerberos dependancies, but we shall see… If anyone wants a more direct download it’s in my overlay, but I’m not gonna [...]

I haven’t tried this, but something like this seems more and more essential these days for those mixed networks… Index of /GPL/squidclamav