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Maybe you already heard of the cwrap project. A set of tools to create a fully isolated network environment to test client/server components on a single host. socket_wrapper is a part of cwrap and I released version 1.1.0 today. In this release I worked together with Michael Adam and we implemented some nice new features like support for IP_PKTINFO for binding on UDP sockets, bindresvport()...
Development / KDE / Linux / RedHat / Samba
Together with Jakub Hrozek I wrote an article about cwrap which is a set of tools to test your full software stack on a single machine. The article is open to the public now. Read the article …
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on one single machine! FOSDEM/Brussels, February 2nd, I gave a talk about cwrap. I announced and released version 1.0.0 of cwrap, a set of tools to create a fully isolated network environment to test client/server components on a single host. It provides synthetic account information, hostname resolution and privilege separation support. The heart of cwrap consists of three libraries you can preload to any executable....
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Next weekend, February 1st and 2nd, will be the FOSDEM conference in Brussels again. I will be there and give a talk in the Testing and Automation devroom. I hope you will be there and watch my presentation on Sunday, February 2nd, 11:30, Room: UD2.218A. See you there!
Development / KDE / Linux
After another development cycle, this time of 2,5 years, the libssh Team is proud to announce version 0.6.0 of libssh. The most important functionality which has been added is a new callback-based server API. Also we added ECDSA support and a new algorithm called for key exchange to have something better than the NIST curves. OpenSSH also uses as the default for key...
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Since some hours is the default KEX in OpenSSH! Several weeks ago Aris added a new Elliptic Curve algorithm for key exchange using Curve25519. After he wrote some kind of a RFC and implemented it in libssh he started to suggest a patch for OpenSSH which finally has been integrated.
For the SSH Library we try to keep up with OpenSSH features and implement the most important stuff. After what we read about the NSA and NIST it became clear that the new ECDSA support we added in libssh 0.6.0rc1 needs new curves. So Aris implemented and wrote a draft. At the same time he implemented the first draft and you can find the...
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Finally after 3 years there is a new version of csync available. csync is a file synchronizer especially designed for you, the normal user. About two years ago, Klaas started to use csync as the backend for the owncloud sync client. The last years we added a lot of features, improved our test framework and fixed several bugs. I have to thank Klaas for all...
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The article Jakub Hrozek and I wrote for Linux Weekly News (LWN.net) about CMocka and using mock objects is available to the public now. You can find it here: Unit testing with mock objects in C cmocka is a unit testing framework for C with support for mock objects. It is used by several Free Software projects like libssh, csync, SSSD or Elasto Cloud. If...
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You’ve probably heard that a developer of an established software project writes an average of 100 lines of code (loc) a day. I can say that this applies to me. So if you write 100 loc per day, how many do you read? I would estimate that the amount of time you spend on reading and understanding code is significantly more than on writing code....