TDNET 2.0: the New Homelab (Part 2)

2021-02-11 24 min read Behind the scenes Homelab Maintenance Systems administration Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

Part 2 of 2

Now, this is the second part of a two-part post, that one covered the tech and background, and this will be the tour. So, let’s begin, running this one front-to-back.

Delta Chat: Instant Messaging Using... Email?

2021-02-05 7 min read Reviews Software Tech Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So this is a fun one, and likely a long one. Come, let’s talk about the unlikely backing for a decentralized, privacy-focused communications platform, the very weird ways in which IMAP can be used, and a hopefully final wrap-up to my streak of rambling about PGP.

PGP Key Discovery Mechanisms Explained

2021-02-04 6 min read Privacy Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

Okay, final thing on PGP after talking about PGP itself and Signature and trust levels, we have… How you can get someone else’s public key.

There’s a few common ways to do this:

Keyservers
Web Key Directory
DNS
- CERT record
- PKA TXT record
- DANE OPENPGPKEY record

Let’s discuss how they all work.

PGP Trust Levels and Signature Types Explained

2021-02-03 4 min read Privacy Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So last time we introduced the basics of how PGP works. This time, we cover something slightly more in-depth: signature types, and trust levels.

PGP (GPG) Explained

2021-02-02 6 min read Privacy Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

Pretty Good Privacy, or as it’s more commonly known as by its most popular client’s name, GNU Privacy Guard, is a method of encrypting and/or signing your messages using the power of public key cryptography. And, while it can get extremely complex, the basics of using PGP are, actually, pretty simple. So in the words of the great Angus Deveson, Let’s get started.