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    <itunes:summary>Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.
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  <title>426: Storage Stories</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.  
Plus we celebrate WireGuard's inclusion in the Linux 5.6 kernel, and fight some exFAT FUD. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We take a look at Cloudflare&#39;s impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.  </p>

<p>Plus we celebrate WireGuard&#39;s inclusion in the Linux 5.6 kernel, and fight some exFAT FUD.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0—and into the next Linux kernel" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/wireguard-vpn-makes-it-to-1-0-0-and-into-the-next-linux-kernel/">WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0—and into the next Linux kernel</a> &mdash; It's a good day for WireGuard users—DKMS builds will soon be behind us.
</li><li><a title="Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=linux-56-features&amp;num=1">Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features</a></li><li><a title="fs: New zonefs file system" rel="nofollow" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/793585/">fs: New zonefs file system</a> &mdash; zonefs is a very simple file system exposing each zone of a zoned block device as a file. This is intended to simplify implementation of application zoned block device raw access support by allowing switching to the well known POSIX file API rather than relying on direct block device file ioctls and read/write.</li><li><a title="Ama-ZNS! Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.westerndigital.com/zonefs-file-system-linux-5-6/">Ama-ZNS! Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6</a></li><li><a title="What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.westerndigital.com/what-is-zoned-storage-initiative/">What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?</a> &mdash; Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. Our data-driven society is increasingly dependent on data for every-day life and extreme scale data management is becoming a necessity. </li><li><a title="Linux Kernel Support - ZonedStorage.io" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.zonedstorage.io/introduction/linux-support/">Linux Kernel Support - ZonedStorage.io</a></li><li><a title="dm-zoned" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.html">dm-zoned</a> &mdash; The dm-zoned device mapper target exposes a zoned block device as a regular block device.</li><li><a title="Device Mapper - ZonedStorage.io" rel="nofollow" href="https://zonedstorage.io/linux/dm/#dm-zoned">Device Mapper - ZonedStorage.io</a></li><li><a title=" What are PMR and SMR hard disk drives?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/PMR_SMR_hard_disk_drives"> What are PMR and SMR hard disk drives?</a></li><li><a title="Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing" rel="nofollow" href="https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T759a10612888a9d9-Me469c98023e1a2cb059f9391/beware-of-smr-drives-in-pmr-clothing">Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing</a> &mdash; WD and Seagate are both submarining Drive-managed SMR (DM-SMR) drives into channels, disguised as "normal" drives.</li><li><a title="Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing [Reddit]" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/frsic7/beware_of_smr_drives_in_pmr_clothing/">Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing [Reddit]</a></li><li><a title="The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-exfat-filesystem-is-coming-to-linux-paragon-softwares-not-happy-about-it/">The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it</a> &mdash; When software and operating system giant Microsoft announced its support for inclusion of the exFAT filesystem directly into the Linux kernel back in August, it didn't get a ton of press coverage. But filesystem vendor Paragon Software clearly noticed this month's merge of the Microsoft-approved, largely Samsung-authored version of exFAT into the VFS for-next repository, which will in turn merge into Linux 5.7—and Paragon doesn't seem happy about it.</li><li><a title="The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=New-exFAT-For-Linux-5.7">The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7</a></li><li><a title="Speeding up Linux disk encryption - The Cloudflare Blog" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryption/">Speeding up Linux disk encryption - The Cloudflare Blog</a> &mdash; Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers.</li><li><a title="Add inline dm-crypt patch and xtsproxy Crypto API patch" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/cloudflare/linux/blob/master/patches/0023-Add-DM_CRYPT_FORCE_INLINE-flag-to-dm-crypt-target.patch">Add inline dm-crypt patch and xtsproxy Crypto API patch</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We take a look at Cloudflare&#39;s impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.  </p>

<p>Plus we celebrate WireGuard&#39;s inclusion in the Linux 5.6 kernel, and fight some exFAT FUD.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0—and into the next Linux kernel" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/wireguard-vpn-makes-it-to-1-0-0-and-into-the-next-linux-kernel/">WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0—and into the next Linux kernel</a> &mdash; It's a good day for WireGuard users—DKMS builds will soon be behind us.
</li><li><a title="Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=linux-56-features&amp;num=1">Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features</a></li><li><a title="fs: New zonefs file system" rel="nofollow" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/793585/">fs: New zonefs file system</a> &mdash; zonefs is a very simple file system exposing each zone of a zoned block device as a file. This is intended to simplify implementation of application zoned block device raw access support by allowing switching to the well known POSIX file API rather than relying on direct block device file ioctls and read/write.</li><li><a title="Ama-ZNS! Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.westerndigital.com/zonefs-file-system-linux-5-6/">Ama-ZNS! Zonefs File-System Will Land with Linux® 5.6</a></li><li><a title="What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.westerndigital.com/what-is-zoned-storage-initiative/">What is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?</a> &mdash; Zoned Storage is a new paradigm in storage motivated by the incredible explosion of data. Our data-driven society is increasingly dependent on data for every-day life and extreme scale data management is becoming a necessity. </li><li><a title="Linux Kernel Support - ZonedStorage.io" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.zonedstorage.io/introduction/linux-support/">Linux Kernel Support - ZonedStorage.io</a></li><li><a title="dm-zoned" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.html">dm-zoned</a> &mdash; The dm-zoned device mapper target exposes a zoned block device as a regular block device.</li><li><a title="Device Mapper - ZonedStorage.io" rel="nofollow" href="https://zonedstorage.io/linux/dm/#dm-zoned">Device Mapper - ZonedStorage.io</a></li><li><a title=" What are PMR and SMR hard disk drives?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Storage/PMR_SMR_hard_disk_drives"> What are PMR and SMR hard disk drives?</a></li><li><a title="Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing" rel="nofollow" href="https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T759a10612888a9d9-Me469c98023e1a2cb059f9391/beware-of-smr-drives-in-pmr-clothing">Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing</a> &mdash; WD and Seagate are both submarining Drive-managed SMR (DM-SMR) drives into channels, disguised as "normal" drives.</li><li><a title="Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing [Reddit]" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/frsic7/beware_of_smr_drives_in_pmr_clothing/">Beware of SMR drives in PMR clothing [Reddit]</a></li><li><a title="The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-exfat-filesystem-is-coming-to-linux-paragon-softwares-not-happy-about-it/">The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it</a> &mdash; When software and operating system giant Microsoft announced its support for inclusion of the exFAT filesystem directly into the Linux kernel back in August, it didn't get a ton of press coverage. But filesystem vendor Paragon Software clearly noticed this month's merge of the Microsoft-approved, largely Samsung-authored version of exFAT into the VFS for-next repository, which will in turn merge into Linux 5.7—and Paragon doesn't seem happy about it.</li><li><a title="The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=New-exFAT-For-Linux-5.7">The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7</a></li><li><a title="Speeding up Linux disk encryption - The Cloudflare Blog" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryption/">Speeding up Linux disk encryption - The Cloudflare Blog</a> &mdash; Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers.</li><li><a title="Add inline dm-crypt patch and xtsproxy Crypto API patch" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/cloudflare/linux/blob/master/patches/0023-Add-DM_CRYPT_FORCE_INLINE-flag-to-dm-crypt-target.patch">Add inline dm-crypt patch and xtsproxy Crypto API patch</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 350: Trials of TLS</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>A deep dive into some SMB fundamentals and practical tips to stay on top of suspicious network traffic.
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  <itunes:duration>50:43</itunes:duration>
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  <description>The trials and tribulations of the long journey to TLS 1.3, and the “middleware” that’s keeping us from having nice things. Plus a pack of Leaky S3 bucket stories and the data that was exposed.
Then we do a deep dive into some SMB fundamentals and practical tips to stay on top of suspicious network traffic.
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    <![CDATA[<p>The trials and tribulations of the long journey to TLS 1.3, and the “middleware” that’s keeping us from having nice things. Plus a pack of Leaky S3 bucket stories and the data that was exposed.</p>

<p>Then we do a deep dive into some SMB fundamentals and practical tips to stay on top of suspicious network traffic.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">iXSystems</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">Get a system purpose built for you.</a> Promo Code: Tell them we sent you!</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Digital Ocean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Apply our promo snapocean after you create your account, and get a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: snapocean</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Save $25 off a device, or get $25 in service credits!</a> Promo Code: Visit techsnap.ting.com</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Why TLS 1.3 isn&#39;t in browsers yet" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/">Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet</a> &mdash; It has been over a year since Cloudflare’s TLS 1.3 launch and still, none of the major browsers have enabled TLS 1.3 by default.</li><li><a title="TLS 1.3 middleboxes test" rel="nofollow" href="https://tls13.mitm.watch/">TLS 1.3 middleboxes test</a> &mdash; This page performs some tests to check for middlebox interference with TLS 1.3. For that it requires Adobe Flash and TCP port 843 to be open. If this is not the case, all tests will fail with N/A. </li><li><a title="Drone maker DJI left its private SSL, firmware keys open to world+dog on GitHub FOR YEARS" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/dji_private_keys_left_github/">Drone maker DJI left its private SSL, firmware keys open to world+dog on GitHub FOR YEARS</a> &mdash; AWS account credentials and firmware AES encryption keys were also exposed on GitHub,</li><li><a title="Data on 123 million US households exposed " rel="nofollow" href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/12/22/data-on-123-million-us-households-exposed/">Data on 123 million US households exposed </a> &mdash; Leaky bucket might be a better description because when opened the database revealed the personal financial data of 123m American households – in effect everyone with an address in the US around the time of the file’s creation in 2013.</li><li><a title="Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/us_military_spying_archive_exposed/">Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets</a> &mdash; Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.</li><li><a title="Security Monkey" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey">Security Monkey</a> &mdash; Security Monkey monitors your AWS and GCP accounts for policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations. Support is available for OpenStack public and private clouds. It provides a single UI to browse and search through all of your accounts, regions, and cloud services. The monkey remembers previous states and can show you exactly what changed, and when.</li><li><a title="An Introduction to SMB for Network Security Analysts" rel="nofollow" href="https://401trg.pw/an-introduction-to-smb-for-network-security-analysts/">An Introduction to SMB for Network Security Analysts</a> &mdash; At its most basic, SMB is a protocol to allow devices to perform a number of functions on each other over a (usually local) network.</li><li><a title="StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/storagecrypter/">StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait?</a> &mdash; Hats off to the most buzzword-loaded headline of the year: “StorageCrypt Ransomware Infecting NAS Devices Using SambaCry”. </li><li><a title="DHCPDECLINE Follow Up " rel="nofollow" href="https://slexy.org/view/s2NNasfpFl">DHCPDECLINE Follow Up </a> &mdash; I think I have a hypothesis. When dhclient is offered an IP, it attempts to look it up in dhcpd.leases (under /var), and if /var has errors, the lookup fails and says "not found" (which is what the DHCPDECLINE line says in the log).</li><li><a title="Please keep some BSD" rel="nofollow" href="https://slexy.org/view/s2EING9Vai">Please keep some BSD</a> &mdash; Please don't get too Linux single-minded. Some FreeBSD plugs here and there are welcome.</li><li><a title="Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401&#39;s core memory and power supply" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-mainframe-fixing-ibm.html">Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply</a> &mdash; Core memory was a popular form of storage in this era as it was relatively fast and inexpensive. Each bit is stored in a tiny magnetized ferrite ring called a core.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The trials and tribulations of the long journey to TLS 1.3, and the “middleware” that’s keeping us from having nice things. Plus a pack of Leaky S3 bucket stories and the data that was exposed.</p>

<p>Then we do a deep dive into some SMB fundamentals and practical tips to stay on top of suspicious network traffic.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">iXSystems</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ixsystems.com/techsnap">Get a system purpose built for you.</a> Promo Code: Tell them we sent you!</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Digital Ocean</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://do.co/snap">Apply our promo snapocean after you create your account, and get a $10 credit.</a> Promo Code: snapocean</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://techsnap.ting.com">Save $25 off a device, or get $25 in service credits!</a> Promo Code: Visit techsnap.ting.com</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Why TLS 1.3 isn&#39;t in browsers yet" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet/">Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet</a> &mdash; It has been over a year since Cloudflare’s TLS 1.3 launch and still, none of the major browsers have enabled TLS 1.3 by default.</li><li><a title="TLS 1.3 middleboxes test" rel="nofollow" href="https://tls13.mitm.watch/">TLS 1.3 middleboxes test</a> &mdash; This page performs some tests to check for middlebox interference with TLS 1.3. For that it requires Adobe Flash and TCP port 843 to be open. If this is not the case, all tests will fail with N/A. </li><li><a title="Drone maker DJI left its private SSL, firmware keys open to world+dog on GitHub FOR YEARS" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/dji_private_keys_left_github/">Drone maker DJI left its private SSL, firmware keys open to world+dog on GitHub FOR YEARS</a> &mdash; AWS account credentials and firmware AES encryption keys were also exposed on GitHub,</li><li><a title="Data on 123 million US households exposed " rel="nofollow" href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/12/22/data-on-123-million-us-households-exposed/">Data on 123 million US households exposed </a> &mdash; Leaky bucket might be a better description because when opened the database revealed the personal financial data of 123m American households – in effect everyone with an address in the US around the time of the file’s creation in 2013.</li><li><a title="Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/us_military_spying_archive_exposed/">Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets</a> &mdash; Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.</li><li><a title="Security Monkey" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey">Security Monkey</a> &mdash; Security Monkey monitors your AWS and GCP accounts for policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations. Support is available for OpenStack public and private clouds. It provides a single UI to browse and search through all of your accounts, regions, and cloud services. The monkey remembers previous states and can show you exactly what changed, and when.</li><li><a title="An Introduction to SMB for Network Security Analysts" rel="nofollow" href="https://401trg.pw/an-introduction-to-smb-for-network-security-analysts/">An Introduction to SMB for Network Security Analysts</a> &mdash; At its most basic, SMB is a protocol to allow devices to perform a number of functions on each other over a (usually local) network.</li><li><a title="StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait?" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/storagecrypter/">StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait?</a> &mdash; Hats off to the most buzzword-loaded headline of the year: “StorageCrypt Ransomware Infecting NAS Devices Using SambaCry”. </li><li><a title="DHCPDECLINE Follow Up " rel="nofollow" href="https://slexy.org/view/s2NNasfpFl">DHCPDECLINE Follow Up </a> &mdash; I think I have a hypothesis. When dhclient is offered an IP, it attempts to look it up in dhcpd.leases (under /var), and if /var has errors, the lookup fails and says "not found" (which is what the DHCPDECLINE line says in the log).</li><li><a title="Please keep some BSD" rel="nofollow" href="https://slexy.org/view/s2EING9Vai">Please keep some BSD</a> &mdash; Please don't get too Linux single-minded. Some FreeBSD plugs here and there are welcome.</li><li><a title="Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401&#39;s core memory and power supply" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.righto.com/2017/12/repairing-1960s-mainframe-fixing-ibm.html">Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply</a> &mdash; Core memory was a popular form of storage in this era as it was relatively fast and inexpensive. Each bit is stored in a tiny magnetized ferrite ring called a core.</li></ul>]]>
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