soarez

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

jpawlowski

# /etc/network/interfaces
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# device: eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

# IPv4 bridge
# (connect ONLY your firewall/router KVM instance here, this is the WAN device!)