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Open Source SW Engineer @ IBM/Red Hat & Nitrokey - Go, Ocaml, Unikernel, Trusted Computing, Cryptography, Samba-Percussion, Sailing, Paragliding, ... any/any »Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.« (André Gide)

Every so often, this magnet on my fridge catches my attention, and I think about how innocent the internet used to seem.

New Yorker cartoon with a dog at a desktop PC telling a dog on the floor, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

Sie hat es E I G E N T L I C H ganz anders gemeint natürlich. Also E I G E N T L I C H total PRO Öffentlich-Rechtlicher Rundfunk. Aber das kommt leider hier so aus dem Kontext gerissen nicht so rüber. Zur Klarstellung: Mersedeh ist FÜR uns allergrößten öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk-Verbrecher!

If you publish SSH of a German server via a cloudflare tunnel, and then connect to it from South Korea via websocat, you get a damn fine cup of latency! I wish I could run @tailscale.com over cloudflare. (Usually latency is horrific, because default routing goes over JP -> US -> UK or similar.)

I continue to be so confused by people not liking passkeys. I love the UX, such an improvement. Do y'all have a magical password manager that works without 15 taps in mobile apps? Or are you self-defeating by not using the built-in (Chrome or iCloud) authenticator? Is this a Linux desktop issue?

The Hubble Space Telescope is 36 and thriving! 🥳🌌 To keep the birthday week celebrations rolling, we’re looking back at 3 of the absolute GOATs from Hubble's cosmic portfolio. These aren't just photos; they’re masterpieces. The Birthday Week Lineup: • The Sombrero Galaxy – A true classic. 1/3

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.

At a relatively bright magnitude of +8, M104 is just beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility and is easily seen through small telescopes. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is located 30 million light-years from Earth.

Credit:
NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers. This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys

There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.

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„Es gibt grundlegende Rechte in Rechtsstaaten, die der Gesetzgeber nicht einfach ändern kann. Das schützt Individuen vor einem übergriffigen und autoritären Staat. Wenn wir das bei Geflüchteten infrage stellen, sind individuelle Grundrechte automatisch auch für alle anderen infrage gestellt.“

I wish that those surveys so often cited by InfoSec pundits that ask Do you fully trust AI output? Do you always verify AI output? also asked Do you fully trust your colleagues' output? Do you always verify your colleagues' output? Just to have comparative numbers, you know.

I worked on implementing the runtimesecret experiment in this release. I'm very excited to see what snags people find using it, because I believe it is the first zeroization scheme to deal with unintentional stack memory spill and somehow, also the easiest one to actually use.