Email is unsafe and cannot be made safe. The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be mitigated. Avoid encrypted email.
Technologists hate this …
Last year we did a blog post on interservice auth. This post is mostly about authenticating consumers to an API. That’s a related but subtly different problem: you can probably impose more requirements on your internal users than your customers. The …
Cryptography engineers have been tearing their hair out over PGP’s deficiencies for (literally) decades. When other kinds of engineers get wind of this, they’re shocked. PGP is bad? Why do people keep telling me to use PGP? The answer is that they …
(This is an introductory level analysis of a scheme involving RSA. If you’re already comfortable with Bleichenbacher oracles you should skip it.)
Someone pointed me at the following suggestion on the Internet for encrypting secrets to people based on …
The ROCA RSA key generation flaw or ROBOT, the “Return Of Bleichenbacher” attack: which is most deserving of the “Best Cryptographic Attack” Pwnie award at the 2018 Black Hat USA conference? Only one can survive. Let us consider.
Assume for the …
Update: I don’t know if we can take credit for it or if it’s random chance, but I note OpenSSH changed its default in the release after this blog post. The system works!
The eslint-scope npm package got compromised recently, stealing npm …
Feb 19, 2020
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