happy new year 2016

January 1, 2016 less than 1 minute read

** Happy new year! **

Lookat 1.4.4 released

December 28, 2015 less than 1 minute read

Lookat 1.4.4 is the latest stable release of Lookat/Bekijk the userfriendly file browser/viewer.

Running Docker on ARM

December 26, 2015 22 minute read

I own an odroid u3 that I used for my media center with xbmc while I like the performance of the Exynos4412 CPU but the drivers for the Mali GPU aren’t opensource.

I like ARM but unfortunatelly a lot of the ARM soc’s have no opensource drivers for the GPU

The manufacturer of the odroid u3 - hardkernel - provides ubuntu 14.04 images with xbmc and mali support. It isn’t possible to get the newer of version of xbmc - now kodi - running, or I didn’t succeed withit. I’ll look for another solution for my media server needs this might be my raspberry pi 1 model B+ that is laying around doing nothing running openelec

Like I said I like the performance of the ordoid U3 that why I installed archLinuxArm to play with Docker. I could have sticked with Ubuntu 14.04 but with Arch Linux I get more up-to-date software.

The installion was pretty straightforward even the docker installation was the same as on a x86 platform.

Since we are using docker on arm we have to build our own docker base images instead of using the docker registery. I have security concerns about installtion and using unsigned non-verified software anyway. If you build your own image it possible to audit/verify the build process.

Protecting your SSH keys with SmartCard-HSM

December 5, 2015 3 minute read

I use a yubi key for my ssh authentication. But I’ve other ssh keys for my remote services so wanted something that allows me to take a backup of my keys see this post for more information on to backup/restore a SmartCard-HSM

Starting to protect my private keys with SmartCard-Hsm

November 21, 2015 15 minute read

I still have too many private keys on a local filesystem, I started to use the yubikey neo for my ssh authentication. Mainly because the nice formfactor of the yubikey.

For my other private keys/data I was looking for something cheeper since I need to have a backup of my secured data so I bought a few Smartcard-HSM smartcards they cost 16 € each while a yubi-key neo cost 54 € at amazon.de