The Rust language itself went 1.0 in 2015. And yet, almost 5 years later, at least in my anecdotal assessment talking to and reading things written by current or potential users, there is still a sense that the language is still in some way... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
A post by Stephen Diehl about Facebook Libra is making the rounds this morning. It makes a number of claims about flaws in the software. Many of these claims are factually inaccurate. I consider it to be a gish gallop that bombards you with a... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
I’ve been a day-to-day Rust user for nearly 5 years now. In that time I’ve perpetually felt like Rust is “the language that will be awesome tomorrow”. Rust has always felt like it had so much promise and potential, but if you actually sat down and... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
NOTE: For more background including a brief introduction to Tether itself, see part 1 of this series: The Tether Conundrum: A Quick Backstory. This post will largely assume you have read that first, or are at least familiar with the material it... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
NOTE: This post is fourth in a series I’ve written about Bitcoin, including The Death of Bitcoin, On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture, and A tale of two cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and Bitcoin’s ongoing challenges. I am a former HODLer,... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
It seems there is some drama in the Rust community regarding Ashley Williams’ recent appointment to the Rust Community Team. Did Ashley violate the Node.js Code of Conduct, and is there an active censorship effort underway by the Rust Core Team to... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
For the past several months I have been hacking on not just one, but five encryption libraries in five different languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Rust, and TypeScript). Tall order, I know. And worse, these libraries implement what I believe is a novel... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
Memory safety won’t fix shell escaping bugs. Memory safety won’t fix logic bugs. Memory safety will not prevent an attacker who has obtained your HMAC key from forging a malicious credential that, when deserialized, can call arbitrary Ruby methods... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
WhatsApp was the subject of a recent Guardian article making claims of a “backdoor” stemming from a “bug” in the way WhatsApp handles key rotations for users. The problem? WhatsApp will automatically transmit messages after the recipient’s key has... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle
Wouldn’t it be nice if your password manager didn’t need a database? Instead of synchronizing a password vault between your devices, you could use the magic of cryptography to magically transform a master password into a unique password for each... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. These days I dabble in Rust and cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language| Tony Arcieri on Svbtle