Filling in the Gaps: HTTPS/TLS Certificates

Thu 07 December 2023

(Disclaimer: No AIs were used in the writing of this article. My intelligence has been frequently questioned, but has thus far never been accused of being less than natural.)

At this point, it's fair to say most tech-oriented cyberspace denizens have at least a passing familiarity with the basic concepts …

Various Ways of Sending Mail via SMTP

Mon 30 January 2023

Internet Mail, or email, or whatever kids these days call it, was one of those things that terrified me very early on when I was a strapping young System Administrator. Everything else that I was doing at the time seemed comparitively easy: Linux/BSD installs, system setup, automation, and such …

OpenSSH: The Poor Man's SOCKS Proxy

Wed 21 January 2009

Just when I think I know everything I need to know about OpenSSH, I end up learning something new and tremendously useful. Today, that would be the -D argument.

Many times I have been stuck on an "untrusted" Internet connection and need to log in (insecurely) to a certain site …