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I recently installed Linux Mint (ubuntu with some goodies) on a laptop and wanted an encrypted whole disk. In order for this to be truly secure, you need encrypted swap. Well most of the HOWTOs for encrypting swap use a randomized key. This breaks hibernate to disk for laptops because the linux kernel has no […]

Enterprise network admins are probably familiar with Cisco’s HSRP which allows for router redundancy and VRRP for firewall redundancy. This article describes a way to achieve the same thing using features in the upcoming OpenBSD 3.5 release . Other commercial firewalls certainly have similar capability. However, OpenBSD’s feature set is becoming rather compelling. Smaller businesses […]

I have decided to start using my GPG key again to sign emails and such. It’s a good thing to use encryption and digital signature technology. Consequently, I’ve gone ahead and posted my key here

So you have just one IP address and a bunch of machines behind NAT. You’ve got port redirection working so your interal webserver behind the firewall is serving pages. But now you’ve got a second box that you need to host content on. Perhaps you have need to have a separate webserver running mod_perl and […]