Chapbook. What the hell is a chapbook? Simple, a chapbook is cheap, small printed booklet for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Printers often provided chapbooks on credit to chapmen, who would go door to door or yell on the marketplace to advertice it. Just like the birth of the commercial Internet!

With your first question out of the way, if you are not a person of culture, you might be wondering, what is malpertus? Malpertus is one of the myriad spellings of the lair of Reynard the Fox. Reynard the Fox is a collection of often gruesome (not for kids and not for the faint of heart) medieval allegorical Flemish, English, French and German fables. Reynard is a trickster, who likes to deceive others and punish them if they get in the way. The stories are often a satire on political and religious figures.

Welcome to my lair. Visit the howto’s for some tips and tricks or the blog for some more generic musings.

Don’t forget to have fun!

Generate Secure and Future-Proof SSH Keys

As a hacker, you are used to spinning up Digital Ocean droplets, running a bare metal server at OVHCloud or experimenting with a Raspberry Pi.

Access to systems should be protected with at least two factor authentication (2FA), based on something you know (like a passphrase) and something you have (like a certificate on your laptop). The most common tool used to remotely administer a Linux server is SSH. It is by default installed on Linux workstations or servers, and recent versions of Windows include it as an optional component.