Tag: security
I am still obsessed with the OpenPGP smartcard. I know, it is definitely
far inferior to YubiKey. It has far, far less features and it's GnuPG
implementation is even
riddled with serious bugs
that can take days to work around. It definitely has it's peak years
behind. But no matt…
Both YubiKey and GnuPG are able to do many things. The difference one might
point out is, that GnuPG probably does
neither of them particularly well,
resembling a Swiss army knife. No matter how well either of the tools
handles tasks it is able to perform, both tools had became a…
A few days prior I have finally
received my electronic ID or eID
that can be used to streamline the communication with various official
bureaus in the country. Since it is Java based, it has a support for
multiple OSes by default, including Linux. Although, as I stated in the
pre…
A time ago I got
contacted by a white-hat hacker
with an inquiry about the security of one of my emails. Specifically, that
my DMARC record was not set up.
I immediately contacted my email provider, since I did not know if the
whole thing was even legit, but I did not get a very …
Some months ago I wrote an
article about the smartcard
and shown a possible way to initialize communication with it on Arch Linux
and the notebook equipped with smartcard reader, in my case a trusty T470.
The basis for making the smartcard reader work is to install the required
p…
A strange issue I could not find a meaningful explanation anywhere
regarding running docker-compose script and iptables firewall on Arch
Linux. Steps to reproduce assume bare iptables, Docker and docker-compose
available.
Step 1. Start Docker
Start the docker.service via systemct…
I have started learning more about the GnuPG security tokens fairly
recently in the
post about GitHub automatic commit signing.
Links in that post provide for some great read too, go check it out if you
are interested. GnuPG security token is a device that stores the keys on
the …