rants and (hopefully) useful info
Most articles on the topic start off by showing you HowTo-CREATE keys, and this is usually followed by some examples on HowTo-USE keys. The result for those of us that ain’t so clever, is utter bewilderment. Hopefully this short explanation will alleviate a little of that confusion. This article will cover the basics of GnuPG…
This is a LINUX version guide, based 99.99% on “Dr. Duh’s outstanding post on the topic”. I have read many such HowTo’s, and this one is, by far, the best I’ve seen (for my needs/preferences). The screens in his article contain the actual screens you’ll see when you run the commands needed. For me, that…
I am an absolute novice on the cyber security front, so I make no claim more than that about my ability. There are a lot of articles that claim/say “you don’t need an anti-virus system if you are running linux”. Maybe they’re right – maybe it’s just foolish optimism. Even so, much better to have…
Maybe I did it wrong, but the way my various LANs and systems are set up, I can’t always get to a few of my endpoints without a 2 step process of doing an SSH to 1 “server”, and then from there, doing a 2nd SSH to the desired endpoint. eg. If the remote endpoint…
The content below is an almost exact copy of this (brilliant) article/tutorial by Eric Severance. In hindsite, it feels like the steps followed are obvious. As a n00b13 it was confusing, since I did not grasp the underlying foundation adequately. I can/will not add anything to it – I will only change the layout to…
There are MANY such guides on the internet – this one is probably not any different or better than those. You should read the man-page for SSH-keygen. THE best resource/book that I have read on the topic is SSH Mastery – Michael W Lucas. His books are generally some of the best on each topic…
Unless you think it would be wise to actually create a TXT file that lists all of your logins/usernames/passwords, and post it on a public forum or social media site like FB, you really SHOULD be using a password manager. For a brief moment (back then), I actually believed that the slight scramble on my…