WordPress 6.8 “Cecil”
Each WordPress release celebrates an artist who has left an indelible mark on music. WordPress 6.8, code-named “Cecil,” honors the legendary pianist and jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor.| WordPress News
Each WordPress release celebrates an artist who has left an indelible mark on music. WordPress 6.8, code-named “Cecil,” honors the legendary pianist and jazz pioneer Cecil Taylor.| WordPress News
HKDF has poorly-understood subtleties. Let’s explore them in detail.| Dhole Moments
There seems to be a lot of interest among software developers in the various cryptographic building blocks (block ciphers, hash functions, etc.), and more specifically how they stack up against eac…| Dhole Moments
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…| Dhole Moments
The Furry Fandom proved vital to saving a library from the demands of a homophobic Mississippi politician.| Dhole Moments
An Internet Marketer Offered Me $100 to Betray Myself and My Community| Dhole Moments
I probably don’t need to remind anyone reading this while it’s fresh about the current state of affairs in the world, but for the future readers looking back on this time, let me set th…| Dhole Moments
When it comes to AES-GCM, I am not a fan. Most of my gripes fall into one of two categories: Gripes with AES itself Gripes with AES-GCM as a construction However, one of my gripes technically belon…| Dhole Moments
In 2010, Coda Hale wrote How To Safely Store A Password which began with the repeated phrase, “Use bcrypt”, where the word bcrypt was linked to a different implementation for various pr…| Dhole Moments
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they s…| Dhole Moments
If you’re reading this wondering if you should stop using AES-GCM in some standard protocol (TLS 1.3), the short answer is “No, you’re fine”. I specialize in secure implemen…| Dhole Moments
Every hype cycle in the technology industry continues a steady march towards a shitty future that nobody wants. CMYKat Note: I know this isn’t unique to the tech industry, but I can’t w…| Dhole Moments
I need everyone to understand something: This doesn’t matter. Dhole Moments is not the official outlet of anything that will affect you or your daily life. It carries no financial weight or p…| Dhole Moments
A frequent source of confusion in the furry fandom is about commission pricing for furry art. This confusion is often driven by (usually younger) furries demanding free or severely cheap art from a…| Dhole Moments
Update (2024-06-06): There is an update on this project. As Twitter’s new management continues to nosedive the platform directly into the ground, many people are migrating to what seem like d…| Dhole Moments
Canonicalization Attacks occur when a protocol that feeds data into a hash function used in a Message Authentication Code (MAC) or Digital Signature calculation fails to ensure some property that&#…| Dhole Moments
Four years ago, I wrote a (surprisingly popular) blog post about the notion of wear-out for symmetric encryption schemes. Two years ago, I wrote a thing about extending the nonce used by AES-GCM wi…| Dhole Moments
OpenMLS now offers security against harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL) quantum adversaries. In #1546 we merged support for the X-Wing KEM draft, which is an early draft for securely combining elliptic-curve-based Diffie-Hellman with ML-KEM.| Cryspen
Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products. In respon…| Dhole Moments
Despite the hype, Web3 offers fake decentralization and builds upon technology you could build without cryptocurrency.| Dhole Moments
The people afraid to show their peers or bosses my technical writing because it also contains furry art are some of the dumbest cowards in technology. Considering the recent events at ApeFest, a co…| Dhole Moments
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…| Dhole Moments
An introduction to database cryptography.| Dhole Moments
Ever since the famous “Open Sesame” line from One Thousand and One Nights, humanity was doomed to suffer from the scourge of passwords. Courtesy of SwiftOnSecurity Even in a world where…| Dhole Moments
