Some Md5 password implementation – without a salt, become more insecure than ever. There is an issue right now with WordPress, I hope they will fix it soon ! Check this interesting article. No need to take out your rainbow tables anymore, just google your hash ! I hope your password is strong enough… You [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2007
Disk Encryption on Linux
I finally encrypted some partitions of my hard drive.
An external hard drive that I just bought (320 Gb) that allowed me to back up my entire /home partition and consider encrypting it.
How to connect to a Cisco device using the serial port on Linux
Using the serial port is still necessary to manage some devices, when it is reseted to factory defaults. It could be also a security choice… Nowadays many computers – and especially laptops don’t have anymore a built-in serial port. Not a problem, there are many cheap serial-usb converters like this. As an alternative to the [...]
PulseAudio on Debian Testing
I just replaced ESD by the new sound server Pulseaudio. Pulseaudio brings up some great improvements and is already chipped by Fedora 8. Getting it to work on my Debian Testing was very easy : $ aptitude install pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-jack pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-utils libasound2-plugins However there were two issues to face : [...]
FTP configuration issues
I found that it was a real mess to set up a FTP server in a DMZ, behind a firewall Cisco Asa (501 model with IOS version 7.0). The FTP server is on the DMZ area, and therefore I natted a public IP to the private IP in the DMZ subnet of this server. static [...]
