One of the things that came up on the SAGE-AU mailing lists a few weeks ago was getting data time stamped. I've come across time stamping before when signing code you also get the signature time stamped that way if you sign your code in 2009 with a certificate that …

I've been using KeePassX for about two years now. I've been putting all my passwords in there and I've got just over 180 entries now.

The argument for using a password manager is pretty easy to make, there is simply no way I could remember 180 different passwords. And especially …

This is a fairly short post but it's another one of those Note to self things, I've done this 100 times but I can never remember and need to keep looking up again.

Often I want to go through a directory and set all subdirectories to be readable and all …

SSL Labs have a great tool for testing and scoring the strength of your ciphers and SSL implementation. I've seen people go to great lengths to get an "A+ score". While it can be a little bit check box security and can end up with cargo cult configurations in Apache …

You can send an email using telnet it's very useful for debugging. It's something I've done several times before but because it's not something I do regularly I always forget the exact syntax so I've written this as a Note to self to remember the commands.

Finding the mail server …