Posted on June 27th, 2008 by nathan
DesktopLinux.Com reports that IronKey will be making their super secure storage device compatible with recent Linux versions. The specs/features:
# Capacity — 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB
# Read/write speed — up to 30MB/sec read; up to 20MB/sec write
# Hardware encryption — AES Cipher-Block Chained mode
# Encryption keys — 128 hardware DRNG
# PKI — 2048-bit RSA
# Hashing [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by nathan
How many times have you been told that it’s impossible to undelete files on a ext3 filesystem? Probably …a lot. In fact, I was firmly convinced that once I deleted a file, it was effectively gone for good, no questions asked. Well, reader/listener Bruce wrote in this last week with a link to a [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by nathan
ProductiveLinux reader/listener Ken wrote in about a week ago with a couple really cool SSH tips.
1) Use ssh-add and ssh-agent for password-less logins. I think this is pretty sweet. Basically, if physical access to your workstation is pretty secure, this lets you logon to your remote box via ssh and only have to enter [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2007 by nathan
Just in case you haven’t heard, some pretty sick people are passing around dangerous CLI advice as solutions to problems on Linux help sites like the Ubuntu forums. Some of these are obviously dangerous to those of us that use the command line on a regular basis, Others are more cleverly disguised. No matter what, [...]
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