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Common Prefix | Software Engineers / DevOps | Greece | Remote | Full-time Common Prefix is a blockchain research & development company. Blockchain technologies enable large-scale e…

Common Prefix | Software Engineers / Auditors | Greece | Remote | Full-time Common Prefix is a science-first blockchain consulting company. Our vision is to make blockchains usable…

I'm a PhD student. To graduate, I need publications. The quality of my publications, and hence my possibility of graduation, is evaluated based on the reputation of the conferences…

I'm a researcher. I write the articles in their books. They don't pay me for that. All of the articles are written by people like me. All of the articles are reviewed and edited by…

It does mean something. I'll make two indicative points. First, if I'm looking to make money that I want to put into global investment, it doesn't matter where I earn it. The absol…

I'm doing a PhD on cryptography/blockchains and working on the Cardano cryptocurrency ( https://cardanoroadmap.com/ ). It's very technically interesting and challenging (though it …

Not sure what you mean, but good encryption algorithms (including GPG's RSA and DSA) are not vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks. Even if you know the plaintext and the cryptotex…

If you want to look at it rationally, he has pretty good chances of getting a good job in security now. It's likely he's looking at proposals by Google, Facebook, etc. Good recruit…

The article is somewhat wrong in that for google.com in particular the browser would show an HSTS warning and disallow access completely, as it is a pinned cert.

Apple can also push new certs through system updates.

We should be moving to systems that cannot be abused instead of systems that "we won't like it" when they get abused. PKI is broken.

The article is nice. But the point about bartering is wrong. The argument seems to go like this: - Each thing has a different value based on the person judging it. - Therefore, we …

Why is this even a thing?

Why does the article assume that everybody wants to be "a somebody"?