puzzling.org users

Our root CA remains the same:

• Certificate file available from here
• GPG signature of certificate file available here
• SHA1 fingerprint: 5C:13:FC:4E:CB:54:EF:B1:FB:82:22:81:9C:71:CB:D7:57:CB:29:77
• MD5 fingerprint: B1:42:48:5A:3C:CF:C3:91:CB:DD:5D:63:90:44:73:C9
• expires May 13 2016

The current certificates are:

fuchsia.puzzling.org certificate (SMTP, IMAP, POP)

• signed by above CA
• SHA1 fingerprint: D2:AD:30:F3:1F:DF:DE:A0:2D:E7:8A:18:96:37:E8:07:D2:5D:11:34
• MD5 fingerprint: FA:66:C6:E4:A4:AA:00:50:5B:D6:35:BC:79:89:95:87
• expires May 15 2011

users.puzzling.org certificate (HTTPS)

• signed by above CA
• SHA1 fingerprint: 01:C4:E3:6C:C7:89:CD:3D:F4:52:3F:C5:B7:65:94:52:C3:D2:03:69
• MD5 fingerprint: EF:A6:D7:8B:DF:75:8D:9D:B2:93:FF:85:35:3E:77:08
• expires May 15 2011

I have upgraded our WordPress installs to 2.7.

Several large, easily recreatable, system directories such as /usr/share/doc are excluded from backups. Importantly for users, so is /tmp.

I now have the disk space and bandwidth to do nightly backups of puzzling.org in its entirety! So from midnight tonight I will begin backups, automatically taking one every 24 hours starting at about midnight Sydney time.

I will keep 10 days worth of backups most of the time, so if you have accidently deleted something and realise within that time, you can email the admins and we might be able to find it for you.

Caution: while I’m happy to restore files for you if I can, I cannot guarentee that the backups will run without fail every night, and I may turn them off when I am on holidays and such. They also only run every 24 hours, so they will not have copies of files that did not exist at the time of the backup. I still highly recommend keeping your own backups of anything you’d be really really sad to lose.

Linode allocated more disk space in their usual birthday reverse-present style. We haven’t been tight on /home for a while but nevertheless I’ve allocated extra. Use df -h to see the new disk space amounts.

The puzzling.org server is now located in a California data centre and all should have returned to normal.

The puzzling.org server will move to a new data centre (in California rather than Texas) sometime within the next twelve hours. Nothing other than latency should change for existing users, but there will be substantial (perhaps more than an hour) downtime.

I have made a new certificate authority and re-issued all certificates related to puzzling.org.

Root CA:

• Certificate file available from here
• GPG signature of certificate file available here
• SHA1 fingerprint: 5C:13:FC:4E:CB:54:EF:B1:FB:82:22:81:9C:71:CB:D7:57:CB:29:77
• MD5 fingerprint: B1:42:48:5A:3C:CF:C3:91:CB:DD:5D:63:90:44:73:C9
• expires May 13 2016

fuchsia.puzzling.org certificate (SMTP, IMAP, POP)

• signed by above CA
• SHA1 fingerprint: DA:90:CE:34:BE:EB:5D:2D:E0:9B:C7:46:A1:DC:C3:F9:A2:33:92:79
• MD5 fingerprint: 2C:05:AF:AA:D3:68:CF:DA:B4:91:12:E6:1C:AC:ED:35
• expires May 14 2009

users.puzzling.org certificate (HTTPS)

• signed by above CA
• SHA1 fingerprint: 4C:64:04:EF:5E:8B:E8:D7:C7:F3:E9:D9:30:26:C5:C6:38:04:4A:D6
• MD5 fingerprint: 31:AB:0B:E1:3C:45:FE:11:F7:9E:42:21:94:F6:BE:48
• expires May 14 2009

Upgrade complete. Please email root with any problems.

The sites should look the same, but the backend will be a bit different.

SHA1 fingerprint: AC:3D:E7:2C:46:18:B0:5D:92:65:2C:17:C7:07:5B:EC:D0:E0:4B:8C
MD5 fingerprint: 2B:AA:34:BE:E5:2B:31:E4:23:42:2A:4C:E2:D0:ED:04

The certificate is signed with the puzzling.org certificate.

Linode has given us more disk space, which has been allocated to various disks on the system. Check df -h for info.

puzzling.org is now running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Please send us an email if something’s stopped happening, something’s started happening, you’re getting an error message or similar things bug you.

SHA1 fingerprint: 16:7B:C7:D7:64:09:2F:BD:57:A1:4E:43:E0:49:E0:FE:F8:5D:EA:C0

MD5 fingerprint: 2F:E0:E4:01:65:A2:77:61:84:9F:06:50:9D:CD:75:16

The certificate is signed with the puzzling.org certificate.

The puzzling.org server is now running Feisty Fawn.

SHA1 fingerprint: 3C:AF:A4:CD:D9:76:DF:C6:C7:D0:0E:66:CB:01:3C:C3:CB:DD:B3:D5

MD5 fingerprint: 42:0A:69:C3:D4:54:8E:42:44:7D:AD:84:F8:65:53:E3

It occurs to me that I ought to say this really explicitly: there is no guaranteed minimum service on puzzling.org. None of you are paying me to do this, it’s not a business, and therefore I do not guarentee uptime, performance of the server, or responsiveness on my behalf. I mean, I try to provide these things, but if you really need them, you also really need to be paying someone for them.

The old SSL certificate for fuchsia.puzzling.org expired and a new one has been issued with these fingerprints:

• SHA1: 98:F3:81:0D:38:8F:1F:2C:9F:C6:9B:A9:D7:1C:83:FA:C3:C7:17:E3
• MD5: 87:73:99:26:9C:FC:05:0B:C2:3E:B8:F8:1F:3C:0F:A9

This certificate will be presented on SMTP (mail sending) and IMAP and POP (mail receiving) connections. The certificate presented for web connections (the users.puzzling.org certificate) remains the same, as does the signing authority. Both were described in February 2006.

As of June 15 2006. Please email the admins with any system problems

Upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will occur on Wednesday 14th June 2006 from 10:30pm Sydney time onwards.