Setting up a poc environment

Long time since the last post, been very busy with work and the last couple of weeks also struggling with a flu.

Anyway, I will now start building a local poc environment running as a VM on my laptop. It will consist of the following components:

• Centos 6
• BIND 9.something
• OpenSSL
• Apache

Just finished installing a fresh VM.

"dane" command

This command generates the TLSA record based on a TLS interaction with a webserver. Written Poul Wouters, it can be found as part of sshfp which is here.

Running 'make install' copies the files into the right places, but when trying to use it we now need to deal with all the dependencies.

First, since I'm using Python 2.6 I need to get argparse. Can be found here. Installing setuptools (yum install python-setuptools) made that easy, all I needed to do was run easy_install argparse.

Next stop, ldns-python. Can't find it in yum, so I'll go to a repository for it. Download rpm, install. Not. Need ldns. Install ldns, and then install ldns-python. Done.

Will leave it like that for now.