(This post is WIP. Come and see update often.) I eventually made up my mind on the choice of single-board computers (SBC) that will assist and eventually replace the role of my Asus RT-AC56U as an always-on home server. It's not a Raspberry Pi. My workload will be more towards…
I was porting this very interesting feature to an older Glibc version for ARMv7. I need a simple tool to gauge any performance boost (or drop for that matter). Surprisingly few information is available on this topic. I didn't search hard but most papers on malloc performance dating back to…
Google or Cloudflare? I think that's a common question for a non-trivial number of people. Here is my little experiment. The result concludes that Cloudflare DNS is fast and a clear choice at least for my point of presence on the Internet. First, I need a tool to measure and…
The upcoming pixelserv-tls 2.1.0 brings a few exciting new features. They speed up browsing as well as enhancing a user's capability to inspect potential privacy breach. While this blog post highlights the features, supplemental details are also available as usual in the MAN page. Cache SSL certificates in…
I can't wait but jot down this piece of story. I woke up this morning and found macOS Mail.app failed to login Gmail. I tried re-login a few times. No success and I left it aside. In a cozy afternoon, I decided to revisit the issue. The first thing…
pixelserv-tls v2.1 is imminent for release. I setup a special instance in my home lab and put it under scrutiny of SSL Labs tests. Test version 2.1.0-rc.2 pleasantly scores an overall A. Quite a few other things from the test report worth highlights. v2.1 brings…
This article introduces an optimised build of OpenSSL 1.0.1te for EdgeRouter-X. It is tested in firmware v1.10 and shall work on models sharing the same ER-X platform. Note that this optimised library is not built for Cavium-based EdgeRouters and will not work on those models. Also worth…