We all know that the difference between https and http is the addition of encryption, right? Of course, but less attention is paid to the other purposes of SSL and TLS: to verify one or both of the parties involved in the connection and to validate that the objects used in the verification meet certain criteria. [1] In the common case of a user directing a web browser to a 'secure' site, only one side is potentially validated, that being the server. Maybe. Browsers generally go a good job of performing server certificate verification and validation but other https clients

This worked well enough but has been superceeded by ``appliance-creator`` Ubuntu has these nice UEC images that make a great base for cloud appliances. Fedora has nothing official although there are a couple of older images floating around (links please!). Nothing for Fedora 17 though. Let's build one! The most flexible image builder seems to be oz, as it runs the standard install process and can build nearly anything that boots in KVM. There are some specific requirements for libguestfs and that usually doesn't work properly in a VM. This all had to be done on bare metal. Even then,

First birthdays are always fun...especially the bit where the birthday kidlet is encouraged to make a mess of the cake to the mild amusement of the adults present. At least that's how it worked in the little burg where I grew up. (Little burg? Isn't that redundant?) My parents have pictures of me doing that, I have pictures of my kids doing that, I anticipate the cycle will continue someday. Now that the OpenStack Grizzly Design Summit is over I realize that DevStack is just over a year old, having been shown off for the first time at the Essex

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