Your Challenge
- Research about SSH keys. Here is a link to documentation from the Arch project.
- Choose some locations to setup use of your ssh keys.
- Document on your blog and use the hashtag #tools05
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Tools 05 – SSH Keys
Category: Tools
For posts about use of tools.
Tools 04 – Operating System Hardening
Your Challenge
- Investigate hardening of operating systems.
- Choose Linux, Windows or you could look in both. We would rather some depth than breadth here so only choose both if you choose to go deep on both.
- Note that you could choose a different OS if you like (say FreeBSD)
- You should actually implement some/most of this in your own installation. Perhaps use a virtual machine for that.
- Document on your blog and use the hashtag #tools04
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Tools 03 – John the Ripper
Your Challenge
- Setup your own installation of John the Ripper
- You can use your account on our Linux server, ask Ken for access
- What passwords did you crack from the file shared (and pinned) in our Slack channel?
- Write about the tool and your investigation on good password maintenance.
- Document the process on your blog as a blog post with tag #tools03
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Tools 02 – Encrypt your Drive
Your Challenge
- Do an inventory of external data storage you have.
- Look for options to encrypt that data.
- What options did you find?
- What trade-offs are involved here?
- Implement at least one of them.
- Document the process here as a blog post with tag #tools02
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Tools 01 – PGP
Your Challenge
- Setup your own PGP private/public key pair.
- Share your credentials with a colleagues (securely)
- Encrypt a message to a colleague.
- Sign a file and send to a colleague.
- Have your colleague do the same so you can decrypt and check signatures.
- Document the process here as a blog post with tag #tools01
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