[linux] Password management and file encryption

[Nash JC - NCF via linux]

Follow-up to some earlier discussion. Thanks to those who commented.

I'm developing some discussion documents about password management (including the survivorship / executor issue) with 
companion file encryption document. Free / Open source is a priority, though proprietary solutions are mentioned too. 
Drafts (comments and contributions welcome) at

https://github.com/nashjc/CryptPass

John Nash

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[linux] updated presentation with scripts

[Nash JC - NCF via linux]

I added whitespace fix to the scripts in the presentation on the Wiki.

Scott's suggestion to run a demo revealed that glitch, and it was worth
fixing.

JN

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[linux] password keepers

[Nash JC - NCF via linux]

For the past few months I've been looking into secure cloud storage, partly for
use with my writings (about 80GB) and partly for use for my own scripted
"password" manager. My password setup handles a lot of extra stuff like serial 
numbers,
document references and things that aren't passwords but just small text
blocks. Some of you have probably seen some queries I've put around about cloud
storage. Quite a bit of annoying detail there, and that has been written up
in draft form.

A particular need is to export the data to a text file that is regularly
put on a USB in a secure storage for institutional executors, with the
decryption keys kept separately.

Bitwarden looks like a possibility, if anyone has experience with it.
I'd also be interested in other perspectives.

I've been writing up my investigations, and will be happy to give a talk
on my findings, as I can't believe issues like these are peculiar to me.
So comments and suggestions are welcome, if possible with context, as I've
been finding small details seem to get in the way of convenient usage.

Best,

John Nash

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Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration

[Nash JC - NCF]

As far as I am aware, there's no intent that Linux-Ottawa folk should have to 
pay
for joining a mailing list. There was a note in one earlier post (some months 
ago)
that NCF had some legacy setup that restricted some of their facilities to 
"members"
and that we might have to sort out details.

JN

On 2024-01-25 16:54, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:

I am in agreement with JF

Sincerely,
Katie

*From:* Jean-Francois Messier 
*Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:50:33 PM
*To:* Ian! D. Allen 
*Cc:* Linux-Ottawa 
*Subject:* Re: [linux] Linux-Ottawa / NCF collaboration
*Attention : courriel externe | external email*
I would call this a MAJOR obstacle. If Freenet/NCF is hoping to get money from everyone joining this list on an annual 
basis, although OCLUG gave them thousands of dollars already, we should dissociate from Freenet/NCF. The decision to 
send the money to NCF was an honest mistake, but let's not keep our dependency on NCF. Who knows what else they will ask 
from the members in the future ?


On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM Ian! D. Allen mailto:idal...@idallen.ca>> wrote:

Re:

- Yes, I'd call it an obstacle
- I agree [...] Is not going to work.
- I agree.  While the money is not a problem for me it is sort of offensive.

The new person joining does not have to pay this fee.  Imagine this:

"Hello and welcome to OCLUG.  We have teamed up with the local Free-Net
to sponsor a mailing list account for you so that you may participate
in discussions around Linux and other Free-Libre Open Source Software
[FLOSS].  We hope that at some point you become a paid-up member of
OCLUG to help support this and other FLOSS projects.  Welcome aboard."

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Re: Re: [linux] Strange Email Issues with this list - gmail spamming myself

[Nash JC - NCF]

Perhaps I should have said that unless someone volunteers, what we have
is what will be available, rather than commenting on the properties of
mlmmj.

Linux-Ottawa is purely volunteer supported.
As will all such groups, that's its strength and also weakness.

Does anyone have sufficient motivation to replace the maillist s/w?

JN


On 2024-01-25 14:54, Dianne Skoll wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:30:07 -0500
Nash JC - NCF  wrote:


Like many things, what we have more or less works,


I don't agree with that assessment...


so there's not a lot of incentive to fix the edge cases.


Both of the large email providers (Google and Microsoft) are starting
to crack down and enforce SPF/DKIM/DMARC more vigorously.  I would guess
a large percentage of OCLUG subscribers are on one of those providers
and much OCLUG traffic is likely not being delivered to them reliably.



I just downloaded mlmmj source code and docs and a text search did not
get a hit on DKIM, so probably does not support it.


mlmmj is written in C and the last release was almost 7 years ago.
Both of those facts IMO are red flags. :)

Regards,

Dianne.


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Re: [linux] Strange Email Issues with this list - gmail spamming myself

[Nash JC - NCF]

We've been using mlmmj. Scott has kept it running, but I'm pretty sure he's
happy if someone would set up something better. However, we've had
people say they were going to do that, then not carry through.

Like many things, what we have more or less works, so there's not a lot of
incentive to fix the edge cases. But I agree it can be annoying.

I just downloaded mlmmj source code and docs and a text search did not
get a hit on DKIM, so probably does not support it.

JN


On 2024-01-25 13:56, Dianne Skoll wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:32:23 -0500
Alan McKay  wrote:


Here is a curious issue that I see on this list only - gmail flags my
own emails as potential spam.


This is a longstanding problem with the OCLUG list software.  If you use
DKIM, then this list breaks DKIM.  And gmail.com uses DKIM.

I've mentioned it in the past (actually nagged/complained about it) but
nothing has been done.  GNU mailman (version 2... I don't use 3) can
handle this properly, but apparently whatever software this list uses
(ezmlm maybe?) cannot. :(

It's frustrating as hell.

Regards,

Dianne.

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Re: [linux] December Meeting: 2023-12-07 @ 19:00

[Nash JC - NCF]

Anyone going to take on moderator role (I think this is a change in 
meet.jit.si)?

JN

On 2023-12-03 15:38, Scott Murphy wrote:

Meeting Announcement

Linux-Ottawa December 2023 Meeting.

Date/Time:

Thursday December 7th at 7pm

Format:

1. Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2023-12-07

2. Check mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other members.

Program:

Topics

1. Script Night: If you have a useful script you want to share, or a problem 
script you want to rescue, bring it along.

Current offerings include

John Nash - scripts to move data to and from cloud storage.

Tug Williams - using bash to download and compress feeds for use over low 
bandwidth connections.

Anyone else! - anything anyone wants to bring up.



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