So I lost my OpenBSD FDE password

The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase. We know things get interesting when I lose a password. I did a weak attempt at finding some public bruteforce tool, and found nothing...

The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts

I got an occasion to do a deep dive into net/http recently, and wrote a post about all the different timeouts you can set on the client and server side. How they work, how they interact and how to use them. The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts | CloudFlare Blog archive...

Securing a travel iPhone

These are dry notes I took in the process of setting up a burner iPhone SE as a secure travel device. They are roughly in setup order. I believe iOS to be the most secure platform one can use at this time, but there are a lot of switches and knobs. This list optimizes for security versus...

Analyzing Go Vendoring with BigQuery

GitHub published a snapshot of all the public open-source repositories to BigQuery and Francesc used it to draw some cool statistics about Go projects. I used the same dataset to analyze how the Go ecosystem does vendoring. Disclosure: there's some ego stroking here, as I'm the author of gvt. Try...

git fixup: --amend for older commits

Everyone knows and loves to use git commit --amend to change the latest commit. But what if you want to correct a older commit? The flow in that case involves an interactive rebase with a edit step. But that's kludgy. Here's an alias that using a couple of nifty git features makes it one command...