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SSL/TLS RFC updated against CVE-2009-3555
A solution has been finally brought up to fix CVE-2009-3555 and the temporary solution that broke client authentication. At least, the IETF agreed on a fix as Marsh Ray informs us, though it will still take some weeks for the whole validation process to complete. Moreover, as it requires both the servers and the clients [...]
Netios 0.71
I release a new version of Netios : 0.71. There are a lot of changes, starting with cosmetics, but the biggest one is the support of multiprocessing. It is now able to process several routers at the same time, so using it on a large list of machines results in a big speed up. A [...]
ModSecurity 2.5 review
I finished reading the ModSecurity 2.5 book, written by Magnus Mischell and published by Packt Publishing. I found a lot of interest reading it as I was already using ModSecurity – and I think anyone exposing an Apache web server should. I was actually using it partially. It is not trivial to secure a web [...]
Dovecot LDA vs Procmail
I have a mail server configuration based on Postfix for the smtp, Dovecot for the imap and virtual users receiving e-mails in maildir boxes. I am also using Amavis and Spamassassin for content filtering. I am not going now to describe this configuration, I think there are already a lot of very good tutorials about [...]
OpenSSL : CVE-2009-3555 security fix and mod_ssl client authentication breakage
A security advisory on OpenSSL has recently been published. Details are there and there. It is vulnerable to a MiTM attack where the attacker can intercept and retrieve the credential to a trusted HTTPS website, by intercepting the session cookie sent back to the client. A proof of concept of an attack against Twitter was [...]
openSUSE 11.1 and /boot on RAID 1
I tried yesterday to set up a home server with two disks in a RAID 1 array. My intention was to have everything on the RAID volume, including /boot, so that if a disk crash, I still can boot on the second one. That’s the way I think it should work anyway, despite the number [...]
Automatic backup when inserting a drive
I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]