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Part 2: Are you feeling LUKy? Mounting an encrypted external drive using the Zymkey

One of the use cases I was hoping the Zymkey could support was the ability to securely mount an encrypted external drive automatically at boot. To my surprise, there was no tutorial/examples provided for this use case, and the forum Read more…

By Edward, 3 years2nd September 2022 ago
Cybersecurity

Part 1: Are you feeling LUKy? Securing a Raspberry Pi using a Zymkey4 Hardware Security Module.

Background If you already know what LUKS and hardware security modules are, you can ignore this bit and head to “What Will this Cover” below. LUKS stands for Linux Unified Key Setup and it is actually a key management framework – the encryption Read more…

By Edward, 3 years22nd August 2022 ago
WordPress

Introducing our new WordPress Plugin – Mail Integration for Office 365

Support-ending notice Early November 2022, ownership of the Mail Integration for Office 365 / Outlook plugin transferred to WPO365. We are committed to provide (best-effort based) support for this plugin until the end of 2023. To ensure, however, that we Read more…

By Edward, 4 years26th November 2020 ago
Cybersecurity

Setting up Cloudflare with a Synology NAS

This article will take you through the steps I followed to set up my Synology NAS, using Cloudflare to proxy my web traffic and secure in-transit connections to my server. For those who don’t know about Cloudflare, they are an Read more…

By Edward, 5 years14th April 2020 ago
Email

‘Self-hosting’ a Mail Server with a Custom Domain and Partial Redundancy – Client Setup

So if you have been following this series of posts, you should now have a local mail server setup linked to both an outgoing and incoming relay service. However, how do we access this server to check our mail? In Read more…

By Edward, 5 years12th April 2020 ago
Email

‘Self-hosting’ a Mail Server with a Custom Domain and Partial Redundancy – The Relays (Incoming)

So far we’ve set up a mail server with an outgoing SMTP relay to handle all our sent mail without it being flagged as spam. However, what about receiving mail? If you are ok with exposing your server to the Read more…

By Edward, 5 years11th April 2020 ago
Email

‘Self-hosting’ a Mail Server with a Custom Domain and Partial Redundancy – The Relays (Outgoing)

So if you read my introduction to this series, you will know that I have attempted to address the common issues with ‘self-hosting’ by adopting a hybrid approach, relying on two types of relay service: An SMTP (outgoing) relay – Read more…

By Edward, 5 years31st March 2020 ago
Email

‘Self-hosting’ a Mail Server with a Custom Domain and Partial Redundancy – The Basics

So in my last post I talked about why I’d decided to go down the route of partially self-hosting my email service. In this post I’ll start with setting up the basics. Unless your internet service provider (ISP) provides you Read more…

By Edward, 5 years31st March 2020 ago
Email

‘Self-hosting’ a Mail Server with a Custom Domain and Partial Redundancy – Intro

So yes it’s 2020 – why would anyone wish to host their own mail server? You’re bound to have issues with sending mail given how much spam is out there nowadays. For a start how many residential/SME ISPs offer you Read more…

By Edward, 5 years24th February 2020 ago
General

The First Post

So I have been meaning to document my digital ramblings for a while now, if only to jog the memory. Indeed, how did I tackle that familiar issue way back, that might just help address the latest challenge that daring Read more…

By Edward, 5 years24th February 2020 ago
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