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GnuPG – RSA key-pair mini-Howto with stronger digests

02-Feb-10

(Note: This was originally posted on my previous blog, but I’ve noticed that it’s being linked to, so I’ve reposted it here) I’m not a mathematician (or a cryptographer) so I’m happy to take this post‘s word for it about a recent attack against SHA-1 (short PDF here). The post goes into detail about changing [...]

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OpenSSH and OpenSC for Debian and Ubuntu

23-Dec-09

I’m using OpenSC at the moment so that I can repurpose an otherwise unused Aladdin eToken to hold SSH keys. I could go through the process involved in setting up the token, but as this chap has already done a thorough job, I won’t go into detail. Unfortunately, the openssh-client package from Debian (and Ubuntu) [...]

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