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I Don’t Care if Strangers Can Take Me Seriously

by Soatok October 4, 2023

Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It

by Soatok October 2, 2023October 4, 2023

DEFCON Quantum Village 2: Electric Boogaloo

by Soatok August 20, 2023August 30, 2023

On Furries and the Media

by Soatok June 6, 2023July 9, 2023

Asymmetric Cryptographic Commitments

by Soatok April 3, 2023April 3, 2023

Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us

by Soatok March 1, 2023July 4, 2023

How You Respond to Security Researchers Says Everything About You

by Soatok January 21, 2023January 21, 2023

Hindsight is 2022

by Soatok January 6, 2023

What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords

by Soatok December 29, 2022April 22, 2023

Extending the AES-GCM Nonce Without Nightmare Fuel

by Soatok December 21, 2022December 24, 2022

Should You Delete Your Patreon Account After They Laid Off Their Entire Security Team?

by Soatok September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Hobbies Don’t Need to be Policed

by Soatok September 6, 2022September 8, 2022

Cryptographic Agility and Superior Alternatives

by Soatok August 20, 2022August 22, 2022

Burning Trust at the Quantum Village at DEFCON 30

by Soatok August 18, 2022August 19, 2022

Introducing Cupcake

by Soatok July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

When Soatok Used Bugcrowd

by Soatok June 14, 2022August 24, 2022

Guidance for Choosing an Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithm in 2022

by Soatok May 19, 2022May 23, 2022

Was the Buffalo Shooter A Furry?

by Soatok May 16, 2022May 26, 2022

Bad Furries Aren’t Representative of the Entire Fandom

by Soatok May 13, 2022May 14, 2022

The Dark Truth About the “Furry Protocol”

by Soatok April 6, 2022October 2, 2022

Using RSA Securely in 2022

by Soatok February 9, 2022May 19, 2022

That One Time Furries Saved a Library

by Soatok February 9, 2022March 28, 2022

The Controversy Surrounding Hybrid Cryptography

by Soatok January 27, 2022January 28, 2022

For Your Infurmation

by Soatok December 29, 2021December 29, 2021

Understanding HKDF

by Soatok November 17, 2021May 30, 2023

My Blog Isn’t a Platform for Internet Randos

by Soatok November 10, 2021

Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out

by Soatok November 5, 2021November 8, 2021

Against Web3 and Faux-Decentralization

by Soatok October 19, 2021August 17, 2022

Furry Porn Against NFTs: A Call to Forearms

by Soatok October 1, 2021October 19, 2021

The Bi-Symmetric Encryption Fraud

by Soatok September 28, 2021August 17, 2022

Programmers Don’t Understand Hash Functions

by Soatok August 24, 2021May 19, 2022

Timing Attack on SQL Queries Through Lobste.rs Password Reset

by Soatok August 20, 2021October 19, 2021

Safer Illinois, Isn’t

by Soatok August 17, 2021October 19, 2021

Lightning Round

by Soatok August 16, 2021October 19, 2021

Selfishness: The Pandemic We Can’t Develop a Vaccine Against

by Soatok August 9, 2021October 19, 2021

Canonicalization Attacks Against MACs and Signatures

by Soatok July 30, 2021July 8, 2023

Blue Alerts: Security Theater and Copaganda

by Soatok July 2, 2021October 19, 2021

A Furry’s Guide to Telegram

by Soatok June 22, 2021July 1, 2021

On the Word “Nonce” in Cryptography and the UK

by Soatok June 11, 2021May 19, 2022

Dead Ends in Cryptanalysis #2: Timing Side-Channels

by Soatok June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

Why Furries Make Excellent Hackers

by Soatok June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

Avoiding the Frigid Hellscape of Online Marketing

by Soatok May 18, 2021July 14, 2021

World Dhole Day 2021

by Soatok May 11, 2021May 11, 2021

Why I Chose to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19

by Soatok May 10, 2021September 19, 2021

Against Hierarchies

by Soatok April 21, 2021

A Furry’s Guide to Cryptocurrency

by Soatok April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

The Furry / Sexuality Blog Post

by Soatok April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

No, It’s Not Just You That’s Having a Hard Time Lately

by Soatok March 27, 2021

Understanding Extended-Nonce Constructions

by Soatok March 12, 2021May 19, 2022

No Gates, No Keepers

by Soatok March 4, 2021July 14, 2021

Cryptography Interface Design is a Security Concern

by Soatok February 24, 2021May 19, 2022

On The Toxicity of Zed A. Shaw

by Soatok February 11, 2021May 30, 2023

Crackpot Cryptography and Security Theater

by Soatok February 9, 2021August 17, 2022

No, You’re Not a “Sigma Male”

by Soatok January 25, 2021August 17, 2022

Please Stop Encrypting with RSA Directly

by Soatok January 20, 2021May 19, 2022

Welcome to the Furry Fandom

by Soatok January 14, 2021July 1, 2021

Block Cipher Structures: Ranked

by Soatok January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

Masks Off for TheDonald.win

by Soatok January 9, 2021July 14, 2021

The Story So Fur

by Soatok December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption

by Soatok December 24, 2020May 19, 2022

Opinionated Guides by Vega Deftwing

by Soatok December 3, 2020December 21, 2020

The Subtle Hazards of Real-World Cryptography

by Soatok November 27, 2020May 19, 2022

Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption

by Soatok November 14, 2020May 19, 2022

You’re Not Alone; It Gets Better

by Soatok November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

A Brief Introduction to Deniability

by Soatok November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption

by Soatok October 28, 2020October 29, 2020

Solving For “Why?”

by Soatok October 23, 2020October 23, 2020

Nearly Everyone Underestimates the Importance of Good Friendships

by Soatok October 22, 2020June 28, 2022

Commission Prices for Furries and Artists

by Soatok October 16, 2020December 16, 2021

Politics? In My Fandom?

by Soatok October 13, 2020October 24, 2020

Vanity, Vendors, and Vulnerabilities

by Soatok October 8, 2020October 13, 2020

Dead Ends in Cryptanalysis #1: Length Extension Attacks

by Soatok October 6, 2020June 7, 2021

Two Weebs and a Furry Walk into a Bar

by Soatok September 28, 2020October 31, 2020

Extinguishing a Flaming Pile of Bad Takes on My Doorstep

by Soatok September 15, 2020July 14, 2021

EduTech Spyware is Still Spyware: Proctorio Edition

by Soatok September 12, 2020July 14, 2021

Designing New Cryptography for Non-Standard Threat Models

by Soatok September 9, 2020May 19, 2022

Soatok’s Guide to Side-Channel Attacks

by Soatok August 27, 2020May 19, 2022

Amazing Furry Animators on YouTube

by Soatok August 24, 2020August 24, 2020

A Few Missing Lessons from American Education

by Soatok August 21, 2020October 31, 2020

All About Dholes and Dhole Fursonas

by Soatok August 10, 2020September 9, 2022

A Brief Opinionated Overview of NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 3 Candidates

by Soatok July 24, 2020October 6, 2020

Dorking Your Way to Search Results That Don’t Suck

by Soatok July 21, 2020July 22, 2020

Kerlissions – Trivial Collisions in Iota’s Hash Function (Kerl)

by Soatok July 15, 2020July 8, 2021

Comparison of Symmetric Encryption Methods

by Soatok July 12, 2020February 18, 2023

A Word on Anti-Furry Sentiments in the Tech Community

by Soatok July 9, 2020July 10, 2020