Articles

Keep It Simple  

Age and Rage are the Go and Rust implementations of a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool.

Genealogy  

Versioning is a recommended approach to back up files as protection against hardware failures and user errors. To create versioned backups, you can use established backup programs or an open source tool that originates from the developer world: Git.

Stress  

A stress and benchmarking tool for websites controlled from the command line.

Plan B  

OpenStack is considered the industry standard for building private clouds, but the solution is still far too complex and too difficult to maintain and operate for many applications. What causes OpenStack projects to fail, and what alternatives do administrators have?

Speed in the Tunnel  

SoftEther is lean VPN software that outpaces the current king of the hill, OpenVPN, in terms of technology and performance.

Curb Complexity  

As the major Linux distributors increasingly lean toward containers, many administrators have come to realize that containers are by no means a panacea for all their problems.

Spoiled for Choice  

We look at the role of identity and access management in midmarket organizations.

Light into Darkness  

Zeek offers an arsenal of scripts for monitoring popular network protocols and comes with its own policy scripting language for customization.

Heat Seeker  

Sensor tools can provide highly variable data from CPUs, GPUs, and a variety of sources. We look at some tools to verify the temperature of components on diverse hardware.

Confidential Game  

Now that web content is encrypted by HTTPS, the underlying name resolution is often unprotected. We look at the classic DNS protocol and investigate whether DNS over HTTPS could be the solution to ensure the confidentiality of DNS requests.