Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure or HTTPS is an extension and secure alternative to the HTTP protocol. HTTPS is very same with the HTTP where the traffic is encrypted using TLS or Transport Layer Security. All major browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge supports the HTTPS protocol. HTTPS also referred as … Read more
ssh or similar applications use Public and Private Key mechanism in order to authenticate and authorize given users. We have all ready examined Key based authentication and authorization in previous tutorials. Permission denied(public key) error is generally occurs for can not reading Public and Private key properly to authenticate to remove server. In this tutorial we … Read more
ssh provides secure access to the remote systems console or command line. All linux boxes uses ssh securely. There are a lot of steps to make things secure and easy while connecting and using ssh. ssh provides passwordless authentication with certificates. We can use ssh-copy-id to send our certificate to the remote system but what can we do if … Read more
Security is an important part of today’s IT operations. There are a lot of tools that provide some part of the security operations. GNU Privacy Guard or simply GPG is one of them. It provides encryption, decryption, digital signatures, and signing. Install GPG To Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali For deb or apt based distributions … Read more
SSH protocol provides different ways for authentication. Key based authentication is the most secure one. In order to use key based authentication we should store the key in a command place. SSH agents reads keys and uses for authentication with remote system. We can use ssh-add to store keys in a common path. Key Files Public … Read more
OpenSSL provides different features about security and certificates. Public and Private Key cryptography also supported by OpenSSL. Websites, Firewalls and other applications uses Certificates in order to encrypt their network traffic or authenticate each other. In this tutorial we will look how to create Certificate Signing Request. Generate RSA Key Now we assume we do … Read more
OpenSSL is free security protocols and implementation library provided by Free Software community. OpenSSL libraries are used by a lot of enterprises in their systems and products. OpenSSL libraries and algorithms can be used with openssl command. In this tutorial we will look different use cases for openssl command. Private Key Private keys should kept secret. Private … Read more
Ssh is a secure and popular protocol for managing different types of IT devices like Linux systems, network devices, etc. What makes ssh secure is the encryption of network traffic. Network traffic is encrypted with different types of encryption algorithms. There is also user authentication done with encryption algorithms. These algorithms need keys to operate. … Read more
GnuPG or GPG is Gnu version of Open PG standard implementation. It is very popular especially at personal use for mails etc. Here I will look basic usage of gpg2 in Linux command line interface. gpg2 is the second major version of gpg. Create/Generate Private GPG Keys Here we will create public and private keys … Read more
I work on Ubuntu and want to use multiple ssh keys to connect different serves. I have tried some different method but unluckily they have failed. How can I use multiple ssh keys? Multiple Hosts Multiple Keys Ssh config resides in .ssh/config file in user home directory. The magic is here. Host cen1 cen1.example.com HostName cen1.example.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/cen1_rsa … Read more