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FDE tools like VeraCrypt will encrypt the whole system drive when the machine uses legacy boot mode (MBR). But they will only encrypt the system partition if the machine uses EFI boot mode (the EFI partition remains unencrypted).
Most sour… Continue reading Full disk encryption: Legacy boot mode (MBR) vs. EFI boot mode
On a company intranet, it is often more comfortable to access an internal webserver just by its hostname (e. g. webserver) instead of providing the FQDN (e. g. webserver.company.com). As long as the hostname itself does not already equal a… Continue reading Is it OK to have both, the hostname and the FQDN of a server, in an SSL certificate?
There are a lot of different URL shorteners out there, like Bitly or TinyURL. Besides their main purpose of shortening a link, they also:
obfuscate the actual URL
collect statistics about the usage of the short link
From the obfuscation,… Continue reading Can I safely preview a short link?
The password in VeraCrypt is used to en-/decrypt a header, that contains a master key, that is used to en-/decrypt the data.
I know, that I can change the password, which will not change the master key and thus be quite fast. But if I have… Continue reading VeraCrypt: Is it possible to change the master key?