Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."

Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."

And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

Hardware accelerated video decode/encode (VA-API) support is beginning to land in #OpenBSD -current. ​

libva has been integrated into xenocara with the Intel userland drivers in the ports tree. AMD requires Mesa support, hence the inclusion in base.

A number of ports will be adjusted to enable VA-API support over time, as they are tested.

rsadowski@ modified xenocara.lib/libva/*: Merge libva 2.22.0

Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API).

VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing.
It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor.

Imported version is based on commit: 217da1c28336d6a7e9c0c4cb8f1c303968a675f1
https://github.com/intel/libva

This work was created during the c2k24. With a lot of help and feedback from matthieu@, tb@, and martijn@.

AMD drivers tested by landry@, martijn@, kn@, op@ and a few more Intel driver tested by matthieu@ and me.

The Intel drivers can find in ports graphics/intel-media-driver and graphics/intel-vaapi-driver. (Depending on your hw)

The ports will be adjusted over time.

Everyone has reported fantastic performance results in Firefox or mpv(1).

OK matthieu@

Many thanks to @sizeofvoid for hacking on this at #c2k24! ​