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FIPS validation yanked

7/17/2006 – 7:59 pm

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 [...]

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OpenSSL Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation

1/23/2006 – 1:08 pm

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

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OpenSSH Multiplexed

12/23/2005 – 2:24 pm

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 check the status [...]

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smbk5pwd followup

12/19/2005 – 10:07 am

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 [...]

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Squid virus scanning

12/14/2005 – 6:01 pm

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

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