Monthly Archives: October 2017

Creating a local Certificate Authority using OpenSSL

I was recently tasked with creating a local CA for a project, where we needed to verify custom client certificates, have the ability to revoke them at will, and we wanted to add additional custom fields to the certificates. Cool. The first stop after searching a bit was this excellent howto by Jamie Nguyen. There’s […]

Shrinking a Raspbian installation and re-enabling auto expanding for distribution of customized images

UPDATE: See the automated script at https://blog.dhampir.no/content/script-for-creating-a-compressed-image-file-from-a-raspbian-sd-card Raspbian, by default, expands to fill the SD card it finds itself on, the first time it boots. After having customized an image to your liking it would be favourable to avoid copying 16 gigabytes of data, or however large your chosen SD card is, each time you […]