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  1. So attezt now contains 3 components.

    - `atteztd` which is an Attestation CA with an inventory API
    - `attezt-agent` that implement device enrollment and an p11-kit agent.
    - `attezt` that is the client for both the agent and the attestation ca. Modelled after step/step-ca

    Everything has an #varlink APIs as well.

    github.com/Foxboron/attezt

    Very much a work in progress and not everything is wired up correctly. Readme also needs a bit more work.

    #TPM #Attestation #Security #security

  2. Watched @pid_eins presentation record about . I think the idea is good, except it should use some binary protocol for communication between services. RFC 8949 seems like excellent candidate. Text serialization is not necessary if human is never direct part of a pipeline. Data conversion is not slow, but not necessary between localhost- only services.

  3. 🚨 Breaking news for the two people who care about Varlink: someone made a C library! 🎉 Turns out, you can now send #JSON objects over Unix sockets—truly revolutionary stuff from the 90s! 🚀 Enjoy your riveting read on RPC protocols, because apparently, that's still a thing. 🙄
    emersion.fr/blog/2025/announci #Varlink #CLibrary #UnixSockets #RPCProtocols #90sTech #HackerNews #ngated

  4. I lied when I said #PAM authentication will come next week. Here's #WebIDAMd demonstrating password authentication against #OAuth, with a PAM module speaking via #Varlink to the daemon:

    asciinema.org/a/728726

    @signaleleven @pid_eins @jasmin

    #systemd #Linux