I am writing this around the time where we are at the beginning of a global pandemic. Everyone is trying to figure out how to keep their business up and running during this challenging period. Most of the employers have mandated work from remote policy. One of the main challenges is how to connect to your applications remotely. Traditionally the answer is VPN. There are so many challenges wrt scalability, availability, and performance of these traditional VPN software.

When I first heard GPG it was little daunting. I haven’t used it exactly, even though I was familar with the concept. So, I decided to dig deeper and understand how to use it. GnuPG (GPG) is an implementation of PGP The simple idea is that you generate a key pair: secret or private key and a public key. You can provide your public key to anyone. They can then encrypt either a secret or file using your public key.

We all at some point in time thought about having a personal website. It may be for writing about your travel trips, posting pictures of food that you cooked or ranting about the tech which you don’t like. I will leave the reason to you Step1: Buying a domain This websites domain name is viggy28.dev. You want a human friendly name, so that your friends, family and rest of the internet can reach your website.