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December 4th, 2013
But to stall/delay/cost the adversary..
On chapter 2, page 34 of Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, which is a
rather old text I found the gem of Merkle's puzzles. Ralph Merkle is renowned
in the cryptography scene for finding out about these puzzles. While I don't
want to go into explaining the puzzle, I do think that they can offer some
protection when RSA assymetric encryption fails. Pretend there is a quantum
computer able to break assymetric encryption. What I have done is implemented
a Merkle's puzzle server that I'll be using to connect to my vps. The server
creates a tunnel that is SHA1 HMAC'ed and AES-256-CBC encrypted. While this
may seem enough, it's not. I still ssh within this tunnel but it does require
some effort to get to the assymetric encryption.
jupiter$ ls -1 *.c
mps.c - creates the gigabytefile of encrypted messages
mpsclient.c - uses a cracked message to talk to the server
mpscrack.c - cracks a message in the gigabyte file
mpsd.c - talks to the client to set up the encrypted tunnel
I'll be setting up a system to distribute over ssh the gigabytefile so that I
can crack a message at home with it and from there use mpsclient to connect
to the server.
I'm debating whether I should open source this. Give it time perhaps I will.
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Americas is now OpenBSD
December 3rd, 2013
I have taken the new americas into "production" so to speak. It is serving
all kinds of things and I'm currently developing software to make it even
"safer" :-).
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Wildcarddnsd BETA 8 has been released
November 19th, 2013
This is a small release for wildcarddnsd. We have new debug feature and support for Raspberry Pi. It is a small
release because I have dwindling time this year due to my job and there is
little to no help coming from the outside. I welcome each and every person who
wants to program on this daemon.
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Sent Brad Smith 10 Euros
November 18th, 2013
A call on the
undeadly openbsd journal was answered by me. I sent Brad Smith 10 euros
for his new laptop. If 100 people do similar he'll be able to buy his new
beast. Of course this is for the greater good! Brad lives in Toronto where
I used to live for 7 years once, so this is from one (ex-)Torontonian to the next.
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My first OpenBSD vps
November 17th, 2013
I have decided to switch plans on my Panama VPS americas.centroid.eu. I now
have the option to run OpenBSD on it and I'm going to go for it.
I'm looking forward to IPSEC encrypting from io.solarscale.de and moon.virgostar.net to americas.centroid.eu. I have already set up strongswan on io and moon
and americas was lacking this functionality but now it'll work. This should
keep me busy until new years :-).
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Ordered a new book
November 15th, 2013
I have ordered...
- Alternative DNS Servers: Choice and Deployment, and Optional SQL/LDAP Back-Ends - Jan-Piet Mens
I do hope this is worth having. This brings my orders for this year to 15
which I hoped to achieve, perhaps I'll order one or two more books but then
that's it. I gotta read these too!
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Slow Communication (ttldaemon.c)
November 11th, 2013
I have written a small daemon that changes the outgoing TTL on a FreeBSD
host. It's a covert steganographic channel. When a bit is set the TTL
is 65 and when it's 0 the TTL is 64. On the receiving end of a ping then
perhaps you can make out the bits of a message:
jupiter$ ping -i 10 io.solarscale.de
PING io.solarscale.de (78.47.14.22): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=15.691 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=16.608 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=14.907 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=15.247 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=15.183 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=16.017 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=16.465 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=15.134 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=18.659 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=15.542 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=10 ttl=54 time=15.176 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=11 ttl=54 time=16.411 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=12 ttl=53 time=15.418 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=13 ttl=54 time=15.438 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=14 ttl=53 time=15.388 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=15 ttl=53 time=15.918 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=16 ttl=53 time=15.306 ms
64 bytes from 78.47.14.22: icmp_seq=17 ttl=53 time=15.347 ms
Notice how the TTL changes here. If it's 54 then the original TTL was 65,
so 1 bit. So what was gathered here was 001100010011010000. Eventually
I'd like to write a client to record this. But I'm gonna cheat for now
and give you the source code.
I just give greetings and peace wishes but with a bit of coding it could
be changed to something very creative!
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What's happening here?
November 11th, 2013
I think the medias need to step back a bit. We all know that the US is spying
on us but we don't need to be spoon-fed the paranoia. It's causing illogical
decisions (firewalled europe anyone?) on parts of big powerful corporations
who see opportunity to take away everyones freedom. Let's get off this
paranoid horses back! I love freedom personally.
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talk(1) patch to display timestamps
November 9th, 2013
I have written a small patch to talk(1) as found in FreeBSD (yes for a change!)
to display timestamps when someone wrote a line. It's a little buggy but it
works.
Thanks goes to Dylan who I've been talk(1)ing with and gave me the idea.
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Smithing tools to understand code
November 8th, 2013
Yesterday I looked at the traceroute(8) source code in order to look for
attack vectors. I came out empty handed. But I smithed a tool for my
work that can be reused later I think.
This tool helped me overcome reading the function print_exthdr() better and
determining it was safe. Not many people admit to doing this kinda stuff but
I think I'll leave this to the next person that doubts OpenBSD's traceroute.c.
I'm not ashamed at all! Should I be?
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