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Rainbow is not a KEM, but a signature scheme.

> ... destroying Internet security seems like a dubious reason to build a new machine. I can't agree with this; Destroying internet security is an excellent reason to build a new m…

/dev/random does not block when 'out of entropy'. 'Running out of entropy' isn't something that can happen, and /dev/random will only block if the RNG hasn't been initialized (shor…

The Discrete Log Problem is relatively simple to explain in the context of a generic group. It's sort of intuitive that elliptic curve groups are a pretty good instance of a generi…

That isn't sufficient to protect you on a charger you don't control: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...

For the cryptography & theory? https://toc.cryptobook.us/ For the design and internals of hash functions? The finalists for the SHA3 competition have extensive design documentation…

> And C++ just... doesn't have that many real problems. 70% of security bugs are memory safety issues. That's a lot of real problems. > It has a lot of irks, but the problems peopl…

Joan Daemen even lost twice in one competition! Subterranean 2.0, another Duplex, didn't make it past round 2.

There is as of Git 2.34 [0][1]. [0] https://github.blog/2021-11-15-highlights-from-git-2-34/#tid... [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...