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I'm a furry blogger that sometimes covers technology topics (security, cryptography, etc.)
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I had to create an inbox filter for oss-security to go into a different label/folder to make my email usable.
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I wouldn't worry about too many mathematicians adopting the "even AI couldn't solve it" attitude. Business folks riding the hype train? Maybe.
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Comment #49089654
> One attack weakens HAWK, a post-quantum cryptography cipher candidate. I don't trust these PQC things one bit. I'll use them in combination with a strong clasically-resistant cip…
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https://codeberg.org/awebo-chat/awebo
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Comment #49038674
To be clear: This isn't a technical discussion, it's a political one. While your point is valid on its own merits, it isn't relevant here.
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Comment #49037664
It's a mix of grifts, gaffes, and Project 2025 .
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Comment #49036173
I don't personally have a horse in this race, but if you want to accurately predict the next step: Start with the outcome you believe will be the most in line with the spirit and t…
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Comment #48988463
It's not that silly of a blogpost. See: "permanent underclass", a term popular among people that believe that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent and desirable .
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Comment #48821895
You're all over the place except where the discussion was actually taking place.
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Comment #48821506
What does a work of fiction have to do with whether two distinct government entities are the same thing or not? That's beyond moving goalposts. Just take the L, dude.
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Comment #48821070
NIST does a lot of things that have nothing to do with computer security! Would you indict NIST MEP https://www.nist.gov/mep/about-nist-mep as being an NSA project without evidence…
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Comment #48818920
Didn't the FDA used to recommend pasteurizing milk?
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Comment #48818876
> You're argument is that I shouldn't think of NIST as a patsy for the NSA, Incorrect. My argument is that they aren't the same entity. The thing you said is a whole different argu…
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Comment #48818849
> In the past NSA has weakened encryption standards, for example NSA madified DES standard. They made DES more secure against differential cryptanalysis (a method that was classifi…
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Comment #48815370
> But if I am honest, NIST recommending it at all is enough to suspect it of being compromised. NIST isn't the NSA and doesn't have the NSA's goals in mind. They are briefed by NSA…
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Comment #48815264
Telecoms. I wrote at length about this debate in my blog post about threat modeling: https://soatok.blog/2026/06/30/soatoks-informal-guide-to-thr...
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Comment #48798205
Let me distill this down to its most basic structure to make sure I'm understanding you. Supoose we're trying to decide between two services for a long term group chat. Service A, …
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Comment #48787204
You mostly got it, yeah. Point 1, ECC is only also broken after Q-Day. Hybrids obviously help if you believe Q-Day is far into the future, or never coming. But if you take Q-Day ha…
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It depends what I'm doing. My dayjob involves a lot of code review and protocol cryptanalysis, so I agonize quite a bit there. My blog would be less fun if I maintained the same le…
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Comment #48786584
> Err, where did you wrote that? I can’t find it in your last two articles. Just now. In an HN comment. I write in conversational English. I'm not always going to meticulously writ…
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Comment #48786378
Read https://soatok.blog/2026/04/13/hybrid-constructions-the-post... for a longer explanation. The main thing I want to stress here is: I'm not anti-hybrid. Some people are. They t…
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> Soatok seems unable to acknowledge that centralisation is a real (privacy, security, reliability, political, …) concern here, nor to see value in the decentralised (federated/P2P…
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I've posted on the Signal Discourse and even had a colleague ask the Signal devs at Real World Crypto this year about this missing feature. No dice on either approach.
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Comment #48784786
Maybe it's because I'm a bad writer, but I've heard from at least a half dozen people in recent years that they think I'm too pro-Signal when my actual stance wasn't "Signal is goo…