Cryptocrystalline | BSD Now 16 | Jupiter Broadcasting

We\’ll be showing you how to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller – one of the lead developers of OpenSSH – about some recent crypto changes in the project. If you\’re into data security, today\’s the show for you. The latest news and all your burning questions answered, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Secure communications with OpenBSD and OpenVPN

Starting off today\’s theme of encryption…
A new blog series about combining OpenBSD and OpenVPN to secure your internet traffic
Part 1 covers installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption (which we\’ll be doing later on in the show)
Part 2 covers the initial setup of OpenVPN certificates and keys
Parts 3 and 4 are the OpenVPN server and client configuration
Part 5 is some updates and closing remarks

FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter

The December 2013 semi-annual newsletter was sent out from the foundation
In the newsletter you will find the president\’s letter, articles on the current development projects they sponsor and reports from all the conferences and summits they sponsored
The president\’s letter alone is worth the read, really amazing
Really long, with lots of details and stories from the conferences and projects

Use of NetBSD with Marvell Kirkwood Processors

Article that gives a brief history of NetBSD and how to use it on an IP-Plug computer
The IP-Plug is a \”multi-functional mini-server was developed by Promwad engineers by the order of AK-Systems. It is designed for solving a wide range of tasks in IP networks and can perform the functions of a computer or a server. The IP-Plug is powered from a 220V network and has low power consumption, as well as a small size (which can be compared to the size of a mobile phone charger).\”
Really cool little NetBSD ARM project with lots of graphs, pictures and details

Experimenting with zero-copy network IO

Long blog post from Adrian Chad about zero-copy network IO on FreeBSD
Discusses the different OS\’ implementations and options
He\’s able to get 35 gbit/sec out of 70,000 active TCP sockets, but isn\’t stopping there
Tons of details, check the full post

Interview – Damien Miller – djm@openbsd.org / @damienmiller

Cryptography in OpenBSD and OpenSSH

Full disk encryption in FreeBSD & OpenBSD

Shows how to install both FreeBSD and OpenBSD with full disk encryption
We\’ll be using geli and bioctl and doing it step by step

News Roundup

OpenZFS office hours

Our buddy George Wilson sat down to take some ZFS questions from the community
You can see more info about it here

License summaries in pkgng

A discussion between Justin Sherill and some NYCBUG guys about license frameworks in pkgng
Similar to pkgsrc\’s \”ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES\” setting, pkgng could let the user decide which software licenses he wants to allow
Maybe we could get a \”pkg licenses\” command to display the license of all installed packages
Ok bapt, do it