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dkasak

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About dkasak

Matrix.org Head of Security

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    Comment #43193697

    > (Recently they finally added the ability to require authentication for the media store, although they didn't add support for it to their web client, only their new Android one. )…

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    Comment #42327991

    The Matrix.org Foundation has been steadily increasing its independence, with the recent introduction of the Governing Board ( https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/election-results/ ) w…

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    Comment #42037655

    Not directly related, but I feel that any references to Ansible being slow should be accompanied by a mention of the amazing Mitogen. https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_de…

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    Comment #39235624

    Oh boy, do I have a treat for you. Try saving the following as `input.md`: # Hello *world* ## Math $$x = 2 \cdot y^3$$ - foo - bar - baz 1. Yes 2. No 3. Maybe --- Right Left Center…

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    Comment #37604778

    A lot of the problems were caused by the legacy crypto implementations. The misery is not caused by ripping them out and replacing them with matrix-rust-sdk crypto, but by it (unav…

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    Comment #33018211

    The risk being accepted is that a homeserver can currently add members to the group with the group being notified of this . This risk will be removed completely once TOFU and signe…

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    Comment #33012156

    It's true Matrix today doesn't implement end-to-end auth for room control messages, but it's a bit of a stretch to say you can spy on conversations in this way. In a room where par…

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    Comment #32155556

    It may be a serious question, but I don't see how it relates to the part you quoted. It still is a dumb idea, regardless of the answer to your question.

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    Comment #28516611

    You'll be thrilled to know this pretty much isn't true anymore, even with Synapse. My instance is running on a cheap Hetzner VPS with a not very powerful CPU and is currently using…

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    Comment #28513821

    Realistically, when would you be in a hundred-person encrypted group? Mostly this is the case when you're a member of some kind of organization, and there are ideas how to solve th…

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    Comment #27970524

    The Rust rewrite is stalled but not abandoned, there's just been a bit of a slump due to time constraints. Which features are you missing the most?

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    Comment #27508442

    Author here. As one of the other comments mentions, afl++ (and to some extent vanilla afl) already has capability to automatically scrape magic values from arguments to special fun…