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OK I always chickened out of creating a key in Linux as it is so easy in windows using PuTTYgen. But one day I decided to find out exactly how to do it in Linux and “Oh My God” it is even easier. I mean really simple. So simple that I was shocked and thought I had to of got this wrong.

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PGP’s Netshare product which encrypts windows folders and files has a limit on it that for some companies be a pain in the backside. Basically you can allow a group of users to all be able to encrypt and decrypt files and folders but if that group for a certain folder is over 50 PGP errors. There is a good reason for this error as if this is higher and you use PGP Universal to proxy your mail too it can slow down mail by a significant amount. But, if your company only uses PGP Universal to manage Netshare you can increase this number by quite a bit. I have personally increased this to 300 users and had no issues (touch wood).
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On a day to day basis I have to run tests on certain mail servers. The main test I use is to telnet onto port 25 and manually creating the mail by hand to see where it fails. Because of always forgetting either the commands or correct order of them I decided to write a basic SMTP test bash script. (continue reading…)