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Sunday, April 13th, 2008Is pretty much broken.
If you are trying to use PGP’s mail feature with Entourage and Exchange it doesn’t work. You can encrypt mail and send it but you cannot un-encrypt the mail in-line. I have found a work around which is to highlight the encrypted string and paste it into a text box […]
It has been a while.
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I have completely switched focus in the last year from primarily development to security. That being said I have been struggling with getting snort to run on a gigabit ethernet tap. I compiled pf ring into a redhat kernel on a quad core 64 bit Opteron platform. While the platform […]
Feisty Fawn and VPNC
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007It is things like this that really make me wonder if linux can ever make it as a desktop replacement. The current version of Ubuntu was released with a known bug in vpnc 0.4.0. It appears that when using vpnc to connect to a Cisco easy vpn solution the dead peer detection drops […]
Cisco and Syslogd
Monday, July 17th, 2006Just a quick note in regard to logging from a Cisco PIX to Redhat and OpenBSD.
To get syslog in Redhat to accept external logging events you have to run syslogd -r
To get syslog in OpenBSD to accept external logging events you have to run syslogd -u
Seems kind of odd at first considering if you start […]
Cisco PIX Shun
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006I learned something very interesting over the last few days about the PIX. Well actually several important things but one interesting. First it seems you cannot block subnets with shun … the syntax is shun src_ip [dst_ip sport dport [protocol]] ….. which I guess make sense as the shun list does not survive a reboot. […]
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