Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p>Just released: <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swad</span></a> 0.12 🥂</p><p>swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon". It basically offers adding form + <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cookie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cookie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authentication</span></a> to your reverse proxy (designed for and tested with <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nginx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nginx</span></a> "auth_request"). I created it mainly to defend against <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/malicious_bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malicious_bots</span></a>, so among other credential checker modules for "real" logins, it offers a proof-of-work mechanism for guest logins doing the same <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a> known from <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anubis</span></a>.</p><p>swad is written in pure <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> with minimal dependencies (<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zlib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zlib</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSSL</span></a> or compatible, and optionally <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PAM</span></a>), and designed to work on any <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> system. It compiles to a small binary (200 - 300 kiB depending on compiler and target platform).</p><p>This release brings (among a few bugfixes) improvements to make swad fit for "heavy load" scenarios: There's a new option to balance the load across multiple service worker threads, so all cores can be fully utilized if necessary, and it now keeps lots of transient objects in pools for reuse, which helps to avoid memory fragmentation and ultimately results in lower overall memory consumption.</p><p>Read more about it, download the .tar.xz, build and install it .... here:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Zirias/swad" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/Zirias/swad</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>