There are (still) various servers on the internet that have just an insufficient SSL/TLS configuration or none at all. It is not just web servers (like nginx or Apache) but also XMPP/Jabber servers and mail servers, for example. As the basis of each SSL/TLS configuration, we need keys and certificates and sometimes Diffie-Hellman parameters. This…
Sandro Köchli, co-founder and board member of Adfinis SyGroup, explains how the rivalry between Microsoft and Linux became a symbiosis. Read the article in Netzwoche to learn more about the history behind our partnership with Microsoft and the related relevance of Azure Cloud Services.
Clouds are sexy! Set them up instantly, maintenance and care are outsourced, scale resources without assistance, and web solutions now often offer functions you can only dream of with desktop solutions. Since Google began demonstrating how people can collaborate on the same document online, even die-hard Word freaks have noticed that text editing is primarily…
As a sales and integration partner of Nextcloud, we bring the on-premise solution of the same name for data storage and collaboration to the Swiss market and offer our customers a comprehensive service for the carefree use of Nextcloud in the corporate environment. Read the press release for detailed information.
If you want to test your code in Python, you should take a look at Pytest as an alternative to Unittest. Pytest is a testing framework for Python. It makes testing very easy, without a lot of boilerplate. Its advantages lie in its simplicity, automatic test discovery, modular fixtures and intelligent error output. This blog…
This blog post will discuss how OpenVPN can be connected to the GitLab user database. Data in a Git repository often require a lot of work, meaning a lot of energy, time and money. If you don’t want to rely on the GitLab login alone but instead want additional protection before it, one way to…
The RFC 2119 written by Scott Bradner of the Harvard University in Cambridge, has been interpreted in the German language by Jean-Louis Fuchs of the Adfinis SyGroup. It is not a literal translation, but rather an interpretation in German. The objective of this interpretation is to provide and spread the RFC 2119 in the German-speaking…
When it became known that Microsoft was going to port MSSQL to Linux, many sysadmins surely thought that it would end in catastrophe. Enterprise providers have not been brilliantly successful with Linux ports so far – trying to install (and configure) Oracle DB on a Linux server is one of the worst experiences known to…
Where web servers are concerned, there are many options to improve the security of connections, but also to prevent cross-site attacks. SSL Simple SSL/TLS configurations are shown here first, followed by expanded SSL/TLS features, such as HSTS and OCSP. In principle, it is always recommended that the current protocols and cipher suites are copied, for…
Matrix is primarily characterised as a chat protocol. This protocol is designed to link up existing chat solutions such as XMPP (Jabber), IRC or Mattermost. Comparison to XMPP XMPP has the same idea, a difference is in the protocol structure. XMPP has a base RFC, and can thus be extended using various XEPs. This makes…
