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2020 has been a crazy year! You don't need me to tell you that. The pandemic. The movement against civil injustice. The crazy polarizing election cycle. The January 6th 2021 attack on the Capitol. Those are all...
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This is my story on how I got COVID-19. And recovered without infecting anyone else in my family. So if I missed your birthday, didn't call, ignored your emails etc. - now you know why! I'm putting this down in a blog...
This is a follow-up to the hardware based SSH keys post , to document the reverse i.e. from hardware SSH keys to file-based SSH keys. File based SSH keys are weaker since they're on your hard drive in the clear but...
April 2020. The ongoing global corona virus pandemic has affected everyone in far too many ways. We're not getting into the broader discussion but kids are now learning remotely over connected devices so today I'll be...
These are my notes (mostly for myself!) on getting SSH authentication through GPG under a variety of Windows 10 environments like native SSH (see c:\windows\system32\openssh\* ), Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and...
This allows you to use the GPG private key on your yubikey (or any OpenPGP security card) on a new workstation. Note that the secret key will continue to live on the card - just as we typically desire. Since we're...
TL;DR : Buy an Alfa from somewhere else. Or don't buy an Alfa. Last year Poonam and I decided to switch things up a bit and look at the Alfa Romeo Guilia instead of the usual BMW route. It was mostly my idea and to be...
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