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KeyCloak x509 Authentication As a frequent user of multiple forms of IDs such as Smart Cards for Organizations, ECA certificates to validate a personal ideantity, and government IDs such as CACs and PIVs, I want to get smart on how certificate authentication can work. Getting Started With any project, the first step is to learn how others have done it. Over at DoD Platform1 a KeyCloak prototype exists which includes x509 flows, custom theming, and custom modules to register/update x509 certificates to a user identity in KeyCloak. ...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 CTF Hello! This is my writeup of the wonderful challenges from the ControlPlane team this year at KubeCon. It was a ton of fun and is encouraged for folks of all experience levels. All you need is a laptop, CNCF Slack, a web browser, and some basic linux tools available (ssh + docker). For a beautiful blog writeup with screenshots and color coding, go here! https://www.skybound.link/2024/11/kubecon-na-2024-ctf-writeup/ ...

Pentoo on Steam Deck Installation Notes If using Rufus, remember to use “MBR”, not “GPT” scheme (SteamDeck limitation, not Pentoo) Display Orientations Change screen orientation in current boot: xrandr -o right Orient touch screen in current boot: xinput set-prop "FTS3528:00 2808:1015" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 Look for FTS3528:00, for me it was the last item under “Virtual core pointer” Core Transformation explained https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/InputCoordinateTransformation ...

Description These are steps taken to help enable a SteamDeck for use in conferencing where a modern web browser, Zoom, and a Smart Card are required. Setup user password If no user level password has been set yet, configure one now. By default, there is no password passwd https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tdggrm/comment/i0kaskz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Switch Firefox to community maintained Firefox as provided in SteamOS is locked down and limited on execution. For enabling use with Smart Card libraries, a version installed and managed at the OS level (outside of a jail or sandbox) is required. Allow Read-Write filesystem Set filesystem to read-write so packages can be installed sudo steamos-readonly disable https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t6w9at/how_to_get_rid_of_read_only_filesystem_folders/ ...

I want to use OpenOCD but it is unsupported on my version of BusPirate. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate#JTAG_and_OpenOCD I’m running 5.10 which is disabled for OpenOCD. https://stackoverflow.com/a/61823037 sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 Follow Build instructions http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Compile_the_Bus_Pirate_firmware My bootloader is 4.3 which is within version 4.x so I don’t need to update bootloader cd Bus_Pirate/package/BPv3-firmware/ chmod +x (if you didn’t install i386 arch you’ll get command not found error message, file pirate-loader_lnx to see it’s a i386 file) ...