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FreeRDP 3.17 Released With Fullchain Support

([Desktop] 6 Hours Ago FreeRDP 3.17)


FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support.

FreeRDP 3.17 merges fullchain support for full X.509 chain support for the client and server. RDP fullchain support is for being able to establish a complete and trusted chain of authority back to a root CA for encryption and verifying an RDP server's identity while also preventing possible man-in-the-middle attacks.

Fullchain support is the most interesting aspect of FreeRDP 3.17 with the other changes this release being various bug-fixes. Downloads and more details on the FreeRDP 3.17 release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/releases/tag/3.17.0


Gonk

Brief History Of Linux (#17)
If only Gary had been sober

When Micro-soft moved to Seattle in 1979, most of its revenue came from
sales of BASIC, a horrible language so dependant on GOTOs that spaghetti
looked more orderly than its code did. (BASIC has ruined more promising
programmers than anything else, prompting its original inventor Dartmouth
University to issue a public apology in 1986.)

However, by 1981 BASIC hit the backburner to what is now considered the
luckiest break in the history of computing: MS-DOS. (We use the term
"break" because MS-DOS was and always will be broken.) IBM was developing
a 16-bit "personal computer" and desperately needed an OS to drive it.

Their first choice was Gary Kildall's CP/M, but IBM never struck a deal
with him. We've discovered the true reason: Kildall was drunk at the time
the IBM representatives went to talk with him. A sober man would not have
insulted the reps, calling their employer an "Incredibly Bad Monopoly" and
referring to their new IBM-PC as an "Idealistically Backwards
Microcomputer for People without Clues". Needless to say, Gary "I Lost The
Deal Of The Century" Kildall was not sober.