Re: [PLUG] Vetting security apps?

2019-01-08 Thread Louis Kowolowski
Bleeding edge vs Established new technology, new implementation, new user base(s), new bugs. even if the math is solid, implementation may not be. I'm not trying to suggest you shouldn't use new things. I'm pointing out the potential compromise in doing it. If you want to play on the bleeding e

Re: [PLUG] Vetting security apps?

2019-01-08 Thread Russell Senior
FWIW, I'm: https://keybase.io/rssenior On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:57 PM Russell Senior wrote: > I like the key validation part of keybase, which somewhat takes the place > of crypto party in-person web-of-trust key exchange event thingies. For > those unfamiliar, keybase uses various social media

Re: [PLUG] Vetting security apps?

2019-01-08 Thread Nat Taylor
Rocket Chat is another solution. You can set up your own server fairly easily with docker if you want. I haven't seen a recent security audit for it. On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:59 PM Russell Senior wrote: > I like the key validation part of keybase, which somewhat takes the place > of crypto par

Re: [PLUG] Vetting security apps?

2019-01-08 Thread Russell Senior
I like the key validation part of keybase, which somewhat takes the place of crypto party in-person web-of-trust key exchange event thingies. For those unfamiliar, keybase uses various social media accounts or domain or website rights to demonstrate that a person that is able to post information to

[PLUG] Vetting security apps?

2019-01-08 Thread Mike C.
I'm curious to know what others do in vetting security apps they use or may recommend to others. I use a variety of fairly well known secure email & chat apps but just learned about an app called Keybase. https://keybase.io/docs It's like encrypted Slack but also some really interesting things li

Re: [PLUG] nVidia config issue

2019-01-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/8/19 9:17 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: Ah ok, so you got the driver going. Technically it is working the its supposed to ;) The config file lives in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Only root has access to this folder so when you try to "save" the config, it actually just saves a temporary copy. I think it put

Re: [PLUG] nVidia config issue

2019-01-08 Thread Ben Koenig
Ah ok, so you got the driver going. Technically it is working the its supposed to ;) The config file lives in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Only root has access to this folder so when you try to "save" the config, it actually just saves a temporary copy. I think it puts it in your home directory somewhere.

[PLUG] nVidia config issue

2019-01-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/8/19 8:22 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: <...> I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it. The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in. Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed. And now you say that X launches the nvid

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/8/19 8:22 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it. The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in. Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed. I should have started a new thread. I'll do th

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-08 Thread Ben Koenig
I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it. The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in. Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed. And now you say that X launches the nvidia-settings program runs as expected. Looks t

Re: [PLUG] Slackware login pain

2019-01-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig .. It occurred to me that if I have a correct nVidia setup on my Ubuntu machine, which has a very similar monitor setup, I could compare t