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Why would you need a revocation key? What does it do?

Gnupg is open source (yeah!) and hence it can be looked up what happens. The answer to the question - Why would you need a revocation key? is that when you create a revocation certificate for a key i.e. via `gpg --gen-revoke name" it internally moves through the following functions/key stepsmain() in gpg.c (the gpg…

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Answered Jan 6, 2022 · 1.8K Views Read answer →

I want to raise a gpg trust key on another machine, how do I do that?

To change the Ownertrust trust level of a gpg trust key after importing in a simpler way (without the interactive --edit-key mode) I found this way in one line using gpg --import-ownertrust: According to this mail from the Gnupg-users mailing list the trust level can be changed using gpg --import-ownertrust You only…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 3.1K Views Read answer →

In the Nmap scan, what does the Nmap state filtered option do?

Filtered is also a common response when scanning for UDP. Scanning for UDP presents a number of challenges and the nmap documentation has a detailed discussion on UDP and the filtered status. Reminder: by default, nmap state filtered scans only for TCP against the 1000 most 'popular' ports. In the past I have used…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 1.7K Views Read answer →

What is the relevance of iba opt out by google?

Those extensions and similar ones do exactly what it claims to do (and they are open source): reduce targeted ads from companies tracking you online and as you concerned about the privacy issues, the IBA Opt out by google extension you linked to for example states: Stops interest-based ads on some of the websites that…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 1.8K Views Read answer →

Do I need to block the Yandex Bot?

First, if the bot is a legitimate search engine bot (and nothing else), they won't hack you. If not, blocking a User agent won't help, they'll just use another one. I would like to point out that Yandex Bot as well as other search engine bots in general might not intentionally want to access your backend. Remember…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 1.2K Views Read answer →

When should I submit my website to the plaintextoffenders?

To quote a FAQ: Aren’t you worried hackers will use your site to find targets? Yes, but less worried than having this information remain secret and relying on Security Through Obscurity. To be more verbose: There are two possible outcomes from submitting a site to the plaintextoffenders: They fix it - This is more…

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Answered Jan 3, 2022 · 736 Views Read answer →

Explain the concept of nuke from orbit.

Substantial difference between nuke from orbit and formatting disk is that malware may be also present on other components of your server than the disk. As this answer to the linked question already states, malware can by now - at least theoretically - affect any flashable, persistent storage. And since there are more…

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Answered Jan 3, 2022 · 783 Views Read answer →

Is securedoc.html safe for me to use?

Secure messaging of this nature via securedoc.html is indeed a real thing used legitimately. However, criminals know this and may well try to imitate a real secure message to lure their target(s) into opening unsafe attachments. If you have verified the sender's address, then you are probably safe. But if you would…

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Answered Dec 31, 2021 · 1.0K Views Read answer →

Why does firefox show me an invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response?

If you are shown an invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response, it may be due to the OCSP-cert having expired. Certificate: Data: Version: 3 (0x2) Serial Number: 132 (0x84) Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption Issuer: C=NL, O=Digidentity B.V., CN=Digidentity Services CA - G2 Validity Not Before: Sep 20…

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Answered Dec 27, 2021 · 1.3K Views Read answer →

Can I use ssh-copy-id-windows to copy the public key from windows to Ubuntu?

The following steps can be followed to ssh copy id windows - 1. EDIT Download cmder or use your favorite console emulator. Move your public key (id_rsa.pub) and your private key (id_rsa) to C:UsersyourUserName.ssh create the .ssh folder if needed. 2. On your windows host via cmder: cp C:UsersyourUserName.sshid_rsa.pub…

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Answered Dec 22, 2021 · 1.6K Views Read answer →

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