PSA: update your encrypted SSH keys (was: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures")

2016-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
All this business about the problems with MD5 reminded me... that a lot of people who `password protect' their SSH keys may not be getting the protection that they think they are. See: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/new-openssh-key-format-and-bcrypt-pbkdf It turns out that OpenSSH

Re: Verifying file integrity with "MD5 signatures" (was: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday)

2016-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 02/21/2016 06:49 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > According to > > http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/ > > Original web site posting here: > > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 > > Be careful out there. And he says "check its MD5 signature" So ma

Re: Data recovery

2016-02-24 Thread Susan Cragin
Thank you for the advice! I followed the instructions and got a lot of files back, including the school files for my current semester (I'm a teacher) and the stuff I really can't live without. What I didn't get from my SSD was two sets of files, my txt and org files, which are mostly very smal