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Resolve IP Fragmentation, MTU, MSS, and PMTUD Issues with GRE and IPSEC – Cisco

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/generic-routing-encapsulation-gre/25885-pmtud-ipfrag.html It seems somehow I’ve never managed to run across this particular article describing path MTU discovery (PMTUD) in conjunction with IPSec and GRE tunnels.  Scenario 10 is a particularly good and detailed description of how it can go, even taking into account situations common to PPPoE DSL connections which have an MTU of 1492 […]

Open PCI DSS Scoping Toolkit

http://www.isaca.org/Groups/Professional-English/pci-compliance/GroupDocuments/OpenPCIScopingToolkit.pdf

Survival Guide – TLS/SSL and SSL (X.509) Certificates (CA-signed and Self-Signed)

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/survival/ssl.html Helpful info.  Looks to be some other good reading on the site as well.

Peter Gutmann’s X.509 Style Guide and implementation notes

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt Seems to get into some good depth, breaks up the material by interspersing relevant quotes.  Helps an otherwise dry topic.

Data manipulation tricks: Even better in R – Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247455/Data_manipulation_tricks_Even_better_in_R Interesting walk through comparing R with Excel, and looking at how to do some of the same things, with additional links to a quick start on the language.

Wireless Security – WPA2 EAP-TLS using wpa_supplicant howto

http://www.codealias.info/technotes/wpa2_eap-tls_authentication_linux_client_setup Flagging this in case I ever get around to configuring my home wifi for EAP-TLS.

Linux network stack walkthrough

http://edge.cs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/network/Linux_network_stack_walkthrough.html Information about network operations in the kernel.