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The BASICS of Securing your computer and E-mail.

I know a lot about the subject of computers and computer security. As such I have decided to put togeather a little help for those of you out there that may need a small push in the right direction. I hope everyone enjoys this!

Step 1 : Passwords

Your passwords are your first line of defense. Like a lock on your front door there are there to keep honest people honest. It is easy to bypass and should not be relied on as your only security.

How to pick a good password.

Postal_Security

This is an old blog post from my other blog. I am using it as a test.

There are times when you need to get items through the mail. This poses a security risk as a valid address must be given to receive the items you want. This file is intended to provide you with an understanding of how to set up Postal delivery points that are difficult if not impossible to trace. As with any security you implement there is a trade off. You are trading reliability and quickness of delivery for security.

Pam USB

Sunday, 20 July 2008

Well, We have discussed the encrypted container files, and you have your ssh and gpg keys secured. Now to take the authentication one step further.

When you authenticate to your system you have to type a login and a password. This is ok but we can improve this. Linux uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) to set the authentication requirements for the system. We can extend this one step further and greate a OTP (One Time Pad) on a USB key that is then required to be present before you can login. This means that you will need your login, your password, and a special USB key plugged into a USB port on the system to log in.

Category Test

This is a test of the new Category.

Testing the new plugins

This is just to test the plugin for the links to blog

Still going

Work has gotten in the way of getting this set back up. I am still working on it and hope to have it back up, as well as the old stuff entered into the new system some time next week.

We are back up

Well, the server is back up! I am still working on getting everything restored. Had a major hard drive crash and lost a lost of stuff from the server.

Blog Test

This is a test of the blog system