Change, Control, Habits, and Productivity
It’s a new year, and you might be looking to change something, or many things. In this article I will share a few of the concepts / tricks / understandings that help me move things forward.
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Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle
I recently disclosed several serious security and privacy vulnerabilities in Thunderbird, the combination of these issues could be used to turn Thunderbird into a decryption oracle for any PGP keys that were loaded.
An Extended Reply Regarding Auditing Anonymity Networks
An extended reply to: Auditing Anonymity Networks
Ideas for a better IDE
I have often complained about the lack of good modern tooling for systems development. I finally decided to sit down and write up a collection of ideas and concepts I wish someone would steal and develop into a fully fledged modern integrated development environment.
Federation is still the Worst of All Worlds
In short: The threat model and economics of federated systems devolve to concentrating trust in the hands of a few, while missing out on the scale advantages of purely centralized solutions.
Retrospective: Winter of Pipelines
My theme for the year is 'Focus', and as part of that whole process for the first time I am trying out seasonal themes. This last Winter was 'Winter of Pipelines'...
Private and Decentralized Human Readable Names with Fuzzy Message Detection and Delay Towers
An idea for a fair, private, decentralized mapping from human-readable namespace to arbitrary data using delay towers and fuzzy message detection.
Writing a Fuzzer for Nes Games
My project this weekend was a fuzzer for nes games based on seeded input from TAS movies.
Extending Fuzzy Message Detection to Groups
In this post I will delve into the current work I’ve been doing on extending fuzzy message detection to groups.
Rough Cut: Oblivious Transfer
One of my favourite cryptographic protocols is a process for achieving Oblivious Transfer...
Building a Home-made Hydrogen Line Telescope
Many years ago I was browsing the Internet idly when I came across a Poster titled “A low-cost 21 cm horn-antenna radio telescope for education and outreach”, and I very quickly fell in love with the idea of amateur radio astronomy...
Revisiting First Impressions: Apple, Parameters and Fuzzy Threshold PSI
Last week, Apple published more additional information regarding the parameterization of their new Fuzzy Threshold PSI system in the form of a Security Threat Model...
A Closer Look At Fuzzy Threshold PSI
Apple recently released a detailed cryptographic paper describing a new private set intersection protocol which they named Fuzzy Threshold PSI with Associated Data, or ftPSI-AS for short....
Obfuscated Apples
Generating noise in a way which is indistinguishable from real signal is a ridiculously hard problem. Obfuscation does not hide signal, it only adds noise....
A brief introduction to Good and Bad "insecurity"-buttons
Recently I have had a number of conversations with people regarding new features in Cwtch, one common thread throughout nearly all of them was the need to explain the concept of a bad "insecurity"-button
A Queer Kind of Hope
Occasionally I’m struck by the idea that if I was more optimistic about the future of humanity I would be focusing on building different technology than I currently am.