DOSing Windows VistaDOSing Windows Vista
Chris Samual writes a good summary of Peter Gutmann’s analysis of the cost of Vista (in terms of DRM). The following paragraph in the article however seemed more interesting to[...]
Category: Security
installing Debian Etchinstalling Debian Etch
A few days ago I installed Debian/Etch on my Thinkpad. One of the reasons for converting from Fedora to Debian is that I need to run Xen and Fedora doesn’t[...]
encryption speed – Debian vs Fedoraencryption speed – Debian vs Fedora
I’m in the process of converting my Fedora/rawhide laptop to Debian. On Fedora the AES encrypted filesystems deliver about 38MB/s read speed according to dd. On Debian the speed is[...]
some questions about disk encryptionsome questions about disk encryption
On a mailing list some questions were asked about disk encryption, I decided to blog the answer for the benefit of others: What type of encryption would be the strongest?[...]
Debian SE Linux policy bugDebian SE Linux policy bug
checkmodule -m -o local.mod local.te semodule_package -o local.pp -m local.mod semodule -u local.pp Save the following policy as local.te and then run the above commands to make semodule work correctly[...]
SE Linux on Debian in 5 minutesSE Linux on Debian in 5 minutes
Following from my 5 minute OSDC talk yesterday on 5 security improvements needed in Linux distributions I gave a 5 minute talk on installing SE Linux on Debian etch. To[...]
biometrics and passwordsbiometrics and passwords
In a comment on my post more about securing an office someone suggested using biometrics. The positive aspect of biometrics is that they can’t be lost, no-one is accidentally going[...]
more about securing an officemore about securing an office
My post about securing an office received many comments, so many that I had to write another blog entry to respond to them and also add some other things I[...]
a good security design for an officea good security design for an office
One issue that is rarely considered is how to deal with office break-ins for the purpose of espionage. I believe that this issue has been solved reasonably well for military[...]