DevOps & System Admin. 9 OpenSSL Commands To Keep Handy OpenSSL commands are used frequently for managing SSL certificates. This reference demonstrates the usage of several key commands and options.
Extracurricular Activities Using an OpenPGP Smartcard with GnuPG How to use GnuPG to transfer subkeys to an OpenPGP Smartcard and use it with OS X for encryption, signing, and SSH authentication.
Extracurricular Activities Generating More Secure GPG Keys: A Step-by-Step Guide How to securely generate a new GPG key and remove the primary key.
Extracurricular Activities Generating More Secure GPG Keys: Rationale The risks of using GPG in the naive way, and a few steps you can take to mitigate them.
Extracurricular Activities How Safe is Your Home? – Creating a Homemade Security System Designing a custom home-made security system for your home.
Ruby on Rails Basic Devise and Mass Assignment – Am I Missing Something? What's the best way to handle mass assignment protection of the password field and still use Devise's built in controllers?
DevOps & System Admin. Authentication and CouchDB This post collects some of the articles and code snippets I tracked down while researching how to secure a CouchDB server.
Software Science "All input is evil until proven otherwise. That’s rule number one." The simplicity of this approach means that the instruction set doesn’t have to change and the code stays binary-compatible.