What is this page about?

The intend of this page is to collect guidelines, docs and papers me and some friends wrote. You sure know the problem: you have to solve a task, which you never did before. So you seek the internet, try things, maybe write some scripts and so on. Once you have solved the problem, your system is up and running, you soon forget the way you did it.

Ahhh... did you ever think about making a little documentation of all your problem-solutions? That is what this page is about. Every time we had to (re)configure something, we just made a little documentation. Of course we did this mostly in Plain old documentation (pod). Doing this you can convert the paper to different formats like latex (pod2latex) or html (pod2html).

We started with the setup of a qmail server and related stuff. Beside of this, you will find some other papers, not directly concerning the setup of a server, but still in the interest of internet.

If you have a little doc or guideline or whatsoever, please mail it to me! Do the same in case of errors, bugs and complements in a paper.

Guidelines and Docs

Qmail related

A guide [pdf] to install a backup Mailserver with qmail.
How to [pdf] setup courier-imap to work with SSL.

Security

A paper in German about Hashfunctions and Digital Signature Algorithms I wrote in a workshop over "algebraic curves and cryptography" at the University of Zürich: [ pdf | ps | html ]
Another Paper in German about Efficient Multiplication on Certain Nonsupersingular Elliptic Curves a friend and me wrote in the same workshop: [ pdf | ps | html ]