Stephen Reese

Amazon S3 Server-Side Encryption using GSUtil

If you would like to enable server-side encryption which is a relatively new feature for your Amazon S3 data using GSUtil then you need specify the header value when pushing files to their cloud. $ gsutil -h "x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256" cp /backups/files* s3://bucket Note that server-side encryption protects your data …

TrueCrypt on my Dell notebook

So I recently acquired a new notebook and I of course wanted the notebook to be secure. When I say secure I’m not just talking about preventing someone from exploiting the notebook from the wild but the problem of physical security with regards to someone stealing it. There are …

Encrypting a secondary drive (PGP or TrueCrypt)

In this post I am going to share my experiences with encrypting a secondary drive in a Windows Vista environment. The hardware is a Dell Optiplex core 2 duo. I will be encrypting a 1 terabyte Hitachi drive which I use primarily for storage. The first piece of software I …