From 8298f9da56fe62b8265684e8a83c8ac4e644870b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:15:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Changing encryption settings --- doc/EN/faq.org | 13 ++++++++- website/EN/faq.html | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/EN/faq.org b/doc/EN/faq.org index 67059f9c..d6601271 100644 --- a/doc/EN/faq.org +++ b/doc/EN/faq.org @@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ | [[file:index.html][Home]] | | [[Why not supply a disk image download?]] | | [[Can I add more users to the system?]] | -| [[How do I reset the tripwire?]] | +| [[How do I reset the tripwire?]] | | [[Is metadata protected?]] | | [[Why isn't dynamic DNS working?]] | +| [[How do I change my encryption settings?]] | | [[How do I get a domain name?]] | | [[How do I get a "real" SSL certificate?]] | | [[How do I renew a StartSSL certificate?]] | @@ -98,6 +99,16 @@ http://ipinfo.io/ http://httpbin.org/ip #+END_SRC +* How do I change my encryption settings? +Suppose that some new encryption vulnerability has been announced and that you need to change your encryption settings. Maybe an algorithm thought to be secure is now no longer so and you need to remove it. You can change your settings by doing the following: + +#+BEGIN_SRC bash +ssh myusername@mydomain -p 2222 +su +freedombone-sec +#+END_SRC + +You will then be able to edit the crypto settings for all of the installed applications. *Be very careful when editing*, since any mistake could make your system less secure rather than more. * How do I get a domain name? Suppose that you have bought a domain name (rather than using a free subdomain on freedns) and you want to use that instead. diff --git a/website/EN/faq.html b/website/EN/faq.html index 87f18769..ce71bb0b 100644 --- a/website/EN/faq.html +++ b/website/EN/faq.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - + @@ -190,27 +190,31 @@ for the JavaScript code in this tag. -How do I get a domain name? +How do I change my encryption settings? -How do I get a "real" SSL certificate? +How do I get a domain name? -How do I renew a StartSSL certificate? +How do I get a "real" SSL certificate? -Why use self-signed certificates? +How do I renew a StartSSL certificate? -Why not use the services of $company instead? They took the Seppuku pledge +Why use self-signed certificates? -Why does my email keep getting rejected as spam by Gmail/etc? +Why not use the services of $company instead? They took the Seppuku pledge + + + +Why does my email keep getting rejected as spam by Gmail/etc? @@ -331,9 +335,29 @@ http://httpbin.org/ip
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How do I get a domain name?

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+Suppose that some new encryption vulnerability has been announced and that you need to change your encryption settings. Maybe an algorithm thought to be secure is now no longer so and you need to remove it. You can change your settings by doing the following: +

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How do I get a domain name?

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Suppose that you have bought a domain name (rather than using a free subdomain on freedns) and you want to use that instead.

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You can obtain a free "official" (as in recognised by default by web browsers) SSL certificate from StartSSL. You will first need to have bought a domain name, since it's not possible to obtain one for a freedns subdomain, so see Using your own domain for details of how to do that. You should also have tested that you can send email to the domain and receive it on the Freedombone (via Mutt or any other email client).

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The StartSSL certificates last for a year. You can check the expiry date of your current certificate/s by going to your site and if you're using Firefox then click on the lock icon, select "more information" then "view certificate".

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Why not use the services of $company instead? They took the Seppuku pledge

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That pledge is utterly worthless. Years ago people trusted Google in the same sort of way, because they promised not be be evil and because a lot of the engineers working for them seemed like honest types who were "on our side". Post-nymwars and post-PRISM we know exactly how much Google cared about the privacy and security of its users. But Google is only one particular example. In general don't trust pledges made by companies, even if the people running them seem really sincere.

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Welcome to the world of email. Email is really the archetypal decentralized service, developed during the early days of the internet. In principle anyone can run an email server, and that's exactly what you're doing with Freedombone. Email is very useful, but it has a big problem, and that's that the protocols are totally insecure. That made it easy for spammers to do their thing, and in response highly elaborate spam filtering and blocking systems were developed. Chances are that your emails are being blocked in this way. Sometimes the blocking is so indisciminate that entire countries are excluded. What can you do about it? Unless you control the block list at the receiving end probably you can't do anything. There is zero accountability for such blocking, and you can't just contact someone and say "hey, I'm not a spammer". This system works well for the big internet companies because it effectively centralises email to a few well-known brand names and keeps any independent servers out.