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Comment on Another root-on-zfs HOWTO (optimized for 4k-sector drives) by zfsroot guides – which one to use? » Dan Langille's Other Diary

zfsroot guides – which one to use? » Dan Langille's Other Diary — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:39:34 +0000

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Comment on OpenPGP crypto cards ordered by netchild

netchild — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:03:10 +0000

I bought 5 crypto cards (and they arrived today). One for my private email address gpg key, one for my FreeBSD email address gpg key, one for FreeBSD.org-machines ssh login, one for ssh logins from home to anywhere except Freebsd.org-machines, and one for ssh logins from on-the-road.

The tokens I’ve seen are more expensive than a crypto card. If I would have bought 5 tokens, I would have paid more than for 5 cards + card reader.

By chance I’ve got also an Aladdin eToken Pro 72k to play around with. If I get it to work, I will report about it too.

Comment on OpenPGP crypto cards ordered by Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:02:14 +0000

also, why not use yubikey for this ?

Comment on OpenPGP crypto cards ordered by Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:59:24 +0000

i will be looking forward to your posts about this.

Comment on Free DLNA server which works good with my Sony BRAVIA TV by Warner Losh

Warner Losh — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:09:08 +0000

I haven’t tried PS3 Media Server, to be honest, but Serviio is a huge step up in functionality and performance from minidlna. That step up comes at the cost of flexibility (like how do set the metadata for files it has guessed wrong on?), but it works with all my media playing devices in the house from my phones, to my iPad to my Sony DVD player and DirecTV DVR.

Comment on Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg) by netchild

netchild — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:31:06 +0000

What I like about the OpenPGP card is, that I can use keys upto 4096 bits. What I like about the Feitian card is that I can add a lot of keys.

I have 2 GPG keys, one for my FreeBSD.org address, one for my Leidinger.net address. I also would like to use a ssh key just for the use with FreeBSD, and a seperate one for my own machines which is different from the FreeBSD one. And maybe I want a second ssh key for my machines which I would use outside of trusted environments. The first one to use it in trusted places, the second one to use it “on the road”. Well, ok, for the second one I should use a card only with this key. And maybe I want a 4th and 5th ssh key for systems I don’t own but have access to (if I lose the card on the road somehow, I still have a card in a trusted env to access the machines and I can lock out the lost card by removing just the keys from the authorized_keys).

With the OpenPGP card it seems I’m forced into using multiple cards (3 to 6, depending on how I want to combine the certificates), while with the Feitian one maybe two or three are enough (one GPG, one ssh-trusted and one ssh-on-the-road).

Comment on Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg) by Crypto card possibilities – DragonFly BSD Digest

Crypto card possibilities – DragonFly BSD Digest — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:25:13 +0000

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Comment on Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg) by johans

johans — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:23:16 +0000

The Feitian smartcard also comes as USB device:
http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-pki-token

I have used both the Faitian and OpenPGP cards with FreeBSD — they work as specified without problems.

Comment on Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg) by cs

cs — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:41:07 +0000

Exactly for the same reason (the FreeBSD incident), I just ordered a CryptoStick from the German Privacy Foundation (http://www.privacyfoundation.de/crypto_stick/crypto_stick_english/). Installing it was very easy. I just had to recompile security/gnupg and install devel/libccid plus devel/pcscd-lite. There are three keys generated, signing, encryption, and authentication. The maximum was 3075bit to create them on the stick. However, I think you can create 4096bit locally and transfer the key to the stick. As the authentication key is not used by gnupg, you can use it for ssh. You need to start gpg-agent with –daemon –enable-ssh-support –sh and it works. I can use now the stick for ssh and gpg

Comment on Free DLNA server which works good with my Sony BRAVIA TV by Bops

Bops — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:13:33 +0000

Thanks @ltsampros
PS3MediaServer is the best DLNA server out there.
It does what it should best. Play video well without stutters.

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/
No fancy video and picture listing.
Just a simple folder list. Go around and find your file.