OpenProducts update
With the Kinguard 20.07 release OpenProducts also updated its certificates for its backend servers. If your device isn’t upgraded to the 20.07 release it means that it most likely wont be able to perform backups or DNS updates against OpenProducts servers. To fix this, make sure your device is updated…
Kinguard 20.07 Released
We are happy to announce that we today release KinGuard 20.07 This release is a minor upgrade and is only provided as an upgrade. If your unit has auto update enabled it should upgrade automatically. Release notesMain visible/notable changes include Manual start of a backupManual start of an updateThe backup…
Setup Video by OpenProducts
Yesterday OpenProducts released a video on how to set up a system running The Kinguard Project software. While there are a number of steps specific for the OpenProducts setup, these are just not there in a pure Kinguard Project installation. https://www.openproducts.com/2019/08/01/keep-setup-video/
Kinguard 19.06 Released
We today proudly released the second major Kinguard software upgrade, version 19.06. The Kinguard software is a software suit based on Debian that is intended for users that care about their rights to their own digital content and the right to private life and communications. The software package includes a user…
Kinguard not affected by latest libssh bug
I myself almost choked on my morning coffee yesterday when i read about the vulnerability in libssh, CVE-2018-10933. SSH is the bread and butter for any safe and secure communication and file transfer in the Unix world and is of course available in the Kinguard platform to give the user…
Kinguard 18.06.3
We are currently in the process of releasing the 18.06.3 update to The Kinguard Project. It is a minor upgrade targeted towards a stability issue in the authentication software. If the authentication software failed, the system was automatically restarted since it would otherwise be locked since nobody was allowed to…
Kinguard on new devices
This is a short status update on what is happening within the KinGuard Project. Since the 18.06 release we have been working hard on getting the code more flexible and thus be able to support more hardware/virtual platforms. To give some background the KinGuard Project started with the code base…
Kinguard 18.06.2
Just a minor update this time, some improvements for file uploads. As with the last update, the web-mail application was among the ones being updated, so any existing connections from the web-mail client to the server is terminated. If it fails to read mails, logout and back in again. More…
Encryption benchmarks on LUKS with dm-crypt
Phoronix published an article recently comparing different file-encryption strategies on Linux. Among them Luks and dm-crypt this is the encryption scheme used on the Kinguard platform when encrypting data storage for safekeeping your data. Turns out that the Kinguard platform solution compares is the best solution among the compared solutions…
Kinguard 18.06 updates
A couple of packages were updated today, including the web-mail application. This has the effect that any existing connections from the web-mail client to the server is terminated and that the user has to logout and back in again. More information about the release can be found on the project…