1. Using GPG's authentication key for SSH access

    By default, GnuPG --gen-key creates a primary key for signature and its subkey for decryption. It is also possible to add another subkey for authentication.

    It is not widely used, but, the authentication subkey can be used for SSH, and this is really convenient.

    Obvious benefit is to enable consolidation …

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  2. Initial G, THE firmaware

    Flying Stone Technology (FST) has started the development of a new firmware, called "Initial G".

    In November 2011, FST released the design of FST-01 (Flying Stone Tiny Zero-One). Then, FST manufactured and started selling of FST-01 in October 2012.

    The first lot of FST-01 comes with Gnuk version 1.0 …

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  3. Running NIST STS 2.1.1 on NeuG True RNG (2)

    NeuG 0.05 was released, and I have a USB memory which says "64GB" capacity. This USB memory is a bit bigger than the one I used, and it can have 500 files of 125MB (=1,000,000,000 bits, that is for 1,000 samples of 1,000,000-bit …

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  4. Connecting ST-Link/V2 to STM32 part of STM8S Discovery Kit

    ST-Link/V2 is not-so-expensive JTAG/SWD debugger.

    I use ST-Link/V2 with SWD to connect STM32 part of STM8S Discovery Kit.

    The connection

    Here is the top view of STM8S Discovery Kit:

    CN5 of STM32 part of  STM8S Discovery Kit
    
        TnRST          8 7  GND       <---------- BLUE
        TDI            6 5  TMS/SWDIO …
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