March 25, 2008 · Security · (No comments)
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This is a simple “encryption” tool to work with common simple encryption algorithms (ROT13, Caesar, Vigenère, …) Gcipher does not provide any strong encryption and should not be used to encrypt any private data.Gcipher can run as either a GUI, a command-line application, or a network proxy.

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March 6, 2008 · Security · 8 comments
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This tutorial is for people who have encrypted their main volumes of their hard drives using the method offered by the Alternate CD installer.

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March 1, 2008 · Security · 4 comments
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scponly is an alternative ‘shell’ (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution privileges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the tried and true ssh suite of applications.

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February 29, 2008 · Security · 23 comments
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Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

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February 10, 2008 · Security · 2 comments
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PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes: It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for unprivileged applications. PolicyKit is specifically targeting applications in rich desktop environments on multi-user UNIX-like operating systems. It does not imply or rely on any exotic kernel features.

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