FWOBAC

Introduction

fwobac is a modest articles-and-comments CGI program derived from the software (formerly) used on http://undeadly.org/, and originally written by Daniel Hartmeier. It retains the flat file content storage of the original, but extends it in various ways.

In contrast with the original software, fwobac:

• is fairly modern in coding standards (for example, it uses explicit_bzero(3), timingsafe_bcmp(3), and pledge(2), as well as HMAC-SHA256 rather than SHA1).
• is not specific to undeadly.org
• uses Kristaps Dzonson's kcgi libraries

The code has been written to run on OpenBSD [6.1], but should be readily portable to other platforms. It is hosted locally.

Name

"FWOBAC" is an acronym from
For Want Of Better Articles and Comments.

For those unfamiliar with the English language, and Australian culture:

• In this sense, "want" means "lack"
• "For Want Of Better" is (appropriate and) taken from the Australian poem Clancy of the Overflow.

The name is intended to reflect the fact that the software was developed because no better solution has been offered for the needs of undeadly.org