Yearly Archives: 2015

Some of the recent work done by the core OpenBSD developers is really incredible.  Specifically, the work that has been done for EFI booting of more “modern” hardware has started to open up a whole new vista of machines that … Continue reading →

To follow up on my last post where I talked about the high-level concepts involved with OpenBSD ports & packages and why you would want to work on them (Time to make the donuts), I thought I would share an … Continue reading →

One of the things I enjoy doing as I learn more about OpenBSD and the community around it is to help with the effort to port software to the platform that I personally find useful and think others will.  The … Continue reading →

As I work on some ports for OpenBSD, one of the issues that has been mentally nagging at me is the idea that I might have a great AMD64 port but it won’t actually work on other processor architectures.  To … Continue reading →

OK.  At this point, I have a working router for my internal network.  I’m using pf as my firewall, have a heavily (in my mind) secured ssh path into things and I’m having fun watching port scanners hit me and … Continue reading →

Now that I have my laptop working well, it’s time to address one of the main reasons I wanted to explore OpenBSD – securing my home network.  Many people might question the need for this.  After all, isn’t that the … Continue reading →

To continue the security / privacy theme, I discovered some really nice tools on a site called http://privacytools.io and incorporated them into my setup. I’m now running Firefox full-time and am using LastPass as a password manager so that I … Continue reading →

Now that I have the OpenBSD install humming along securely on my primary hard drive, it’s time to set up Arch Linux and my Windows VM on the mSATA drive.  I want to make sure that I take the same … Continue reading →

So I figured that if I really wanted to leverage the capabilities of OpenBSD, I should do my utmost to ensure that what I created was a secure experience.  The first thing that jumped to mind was cryptographic security of … Continue reading →

Since I had chosen the Thinkpad x220 for my platform in this experiment.  I needed to think through exactly what my goals were.  Specifically I wanted to have a platform where I could: Dedicate the entire drive to OpenBSD Still … Continue reading →