feat. Vikram Sharma of QuintessenceLabs

@SoatokDhole > A particularly motivated bullshit artist with sufficient capital might simply sponsor both villages

Good news, CPV doesn't take corporate sponsorship at all!

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Cryptographic agility is a vaguely defined property, but is commonly understood to mean, “Able to quickly swap between cryptographic primitives in response to new attacks.” Wikipedia de…

We don’t need stupid rules about fursuiting at furry conventions

Deleted my Patreon account

https://t.co/o62hLl1OWk

A nuanced answer to the obvious question in response to Patreon firing an entire Security Team in 2022.

What’s This All About? Hiya, my name is Soatok! I’m a member of the furry fandom. My fursona is a dhole (Cuon Alpinus). You can learn more about my fursona here. My pronouns are he / hi…

What will become of the Internet, and the furry fandom, if Elon Musk kills Twitter?

1.74K Posts, 1.65K Following, 2.44K Followers · He/him. Gay/demi dhole (Cuon Alpinus)

Blogger, programmer, security engineer, cryptography nerd. 30+

Too spicy for Twitter (banned with all the prominent journalists on 2022-12-16)

https://soatok.blog

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…

Attached: 1 image · Content warning: birdsite, Musk

I got banned for criticizing Twitter’s security, as I’ve done often in the past without repercussion.

↘️ Quoting Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport)

Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon…

Free speech really should be free. To bypass the new censorship regime at twitter, use this URL shortener to link to Mastodon or other censored destinations. Considering recent policy decisions on twitter, please be aware that use of links generated from…

AES-XGCM: An eXtended-nonce construction built atop AES-GCM - GitHub - soatok/aes-xgcm: AES-XGCM: An eXtended-nonce construction built atop AES-GCM

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…

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…

Tails from the Cryptographic Side of Security Research

A quick reference to anti-furry dog-whistles for busy journalists and investigative reporters.

An introduction to database cryptography.

Recently, it occurred to me that there wasn’t a good, focused resource that covers commitments in the context of asymmetric cryptography. I had covered confused deputy attacks in my very shor…