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Monthly Archives May 2008

SSH/SSL patching and hardening

My OpenSSL-based daemons are back up ! These commands should provide quite a good security level for a while (at least again non super-power governmental organizations) : I am the only person to use the server, so I don’t have any scallability issue. Just to enforce the ssh configuration, I added these two line in [...]

Posted 20 May 2008 § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The SSL/SSH disaster

Due to the recent security hole discovered in Debian, which has also concerned various distributions – of course including Ubuntu – for 2 years, I simply closed all my SSH and OpenVPN accesses. I have had no time so far to check all the keys on my server. I prefer to stay on the safe [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 § Security ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Xen vs KVM

I was planning to give a try to Xen for my future virtual servers. This blog made me think twice. I think I am going to check KVM first.

Posted 03 May 2008 § Virtualization ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,