Dhole Moments, Soa Talks, and Other Bad Puns…
Twitter’s Birdwatch is Fundamentally Flawed
The fatal flaw of Birdwatch’s current design and how it can be fixed.
No, You’re Not a “Sigma Male”
“Sigma Male” is just the latest trend in pick-up artist/involuntary celibate/anti-feminist grifting.
Please Stop Encrypting with RSA Directly
RSA is for encrypting symmetric keys, not entire messages. Pass it on.
Welcome to the Furry Fandom
Welcome to the furry fandom, please enjoy your stay! ^w^
Block Cipher Structures: Ranked
An opinionated curation of different classes of block ciphers, ranked by an opinionated furry.
Masks Off for TheDonald.win
The server for thedonald.win is hosted at 167.114.145.140. Read on to learn how I discovered this.
The Story So Fur
A recap of Dhole Moments in the year 2020.
Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption
As we look upon the sunset of a remarkably tiresome year, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about cryptographic wear-out. What is cryptographic wear-out? It’s the threshold when you’ve used the same key to encrypt so much data that you should probably switch to a new key before you encrypt any more. Otherwise, […]
Putting Scammers on Scan on Twitter
Earlier tonight, someone decided to change their Twitter handle and display name to impersonate a furry and solicit money to the scammer’s PayPal account. This is the same kind of lazy technique that script kiddies use to phish people for passwords, but more targeted. The goal is to dupe someone into sending the scammer money […]
The Subtle Hazards of Real-World Cryptography
Imagine you’re a software developer, and you need to authenticate users based on a username and password. If you’re well-read on the industry standard best practices, you’ll probably elect to use something like bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2id, or PBKDF2. (If you thought to use something else, you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.) Let’s say, due to […]
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