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Apple removed the OpenSSL header files in “El Capitan”, making it hard to build OpenSSL-dependent libraries without modifying your system a little bit.

Fortunately we have Homebrew ; if you don’t have it yet, go ahead and install it now . I’ll wait here.

2015-12-08

An Illustrated Guide to SSH Tunnels

SSH tunnels can provide secure connections through insecure or untrusted networks and may also be used to securely route through firewalls.

About This Guide

This guide began as a personal document to help me learn and remember how SSH tunnels work and has been several years incubating. If you find errors or think of additional examples that you believe would be helpful, I’d be delighted to know about them.

Terminology

Throughout this guide we use “SSH” to refer to the SSH protocol or the world of SSH things and use ssh to refer to the ssh(1) program itself. “We use ssh and sshd to make SSH connections.” The examples in this tutorial are based on OpenSSH 0.9.8 and later.

2015-08-16

Use git-crypt to Store Secrets in Git

git-crypt ( github ) keeps your secrets safe in a git repository. It decrypts on checkout and encrypts at commit using standard git hooks. Once configured, it is completely transparent.

2014-07-15