One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, “Know your audience.” But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you&…

I have several projects in-flight, and I wanted to write a quick status update for them so that folks can find it easier to follow along. Please bear in mind: This is in addition to, and totally se…

I've decided on a **Sponsor Policy** for my blog.

This concerns paid sponsorships, guest posts, native advertising, and other forms of paid promotion.

https://soatok.blog/sponsor-policy/

I will not be taking questions at this time. :P

It is tempting and forgivable to believe that we’re in control of our social media experiences. After all, we write what we want in our bio, select our avatars, and even come up with our own …

Since I have your attention for the moment, I’d like you to ask yourself a question: What is it that drives you in life? Do you yearn for the feeling of safety? By seeking power, status, weal…

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If you’re in a hurry, head on over to soatok/elliptic-to-noble and follow the instructions in the README in order to remove the elliptic package from your project and all dependencies in node…

I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements the Key Transparency specification I’ve be…

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally un…

If you think about emails as if they’re anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard–that is to say, postcards provide zero confidentiality–then someone lied to you and I&#82…

In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit “Long Key IDs” used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else&#…

Breaking Changes
We no longer expect BurnDown to go through the normal ActivityPub flow. Instead, it will be passed to a totally separate API endpoint by administrators. This gives us the advantage...

If I were to recommend you use a piece of cryptography-relevant software that I created, how would you actually know if it was any good? Art: Wayward Mutt Trust is, first and foremost, a social pro…

We're almost feature-complete and caught up to v0.3.0 of the specification.
The next minor release will mostly include better documentation and improved test coverage, but there are several oth...

The biggest change since v0.2.1 is the introduction of rate-limiting. I wrote at length about how that feature was designed in that pull request, so I highly recommend reading it right now.
(We als...