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Alicja Kario

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Alicja Kario writes securitypitfalls, a personal blog at securitypitfalls.wordpress.com about security and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for security write-ups, such as a survey of RC4 enabled on top-million sites. One commenter says the author's blog is highly recommended.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog about cryptography and security by Alicja Kario

What Hacker News says?

  1. 75% of alexa's top 1 million have RC4 enabled [1]. It will take a lot of evangelizing to finally get rid of it. [1] https://securitypitfalls.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/february-2...

    Comment linking /2015/03/13/february-2015-scan-results/

    on “Making Pinterest HTTPS”
  2. Submitted TLS scan results for October 2014 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Side-note: This is the same guy that runs the securitypitfalls blog, which I highly recommend. [1] https://securitypitfalls.wordpress.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Marvin Attack on RSA (Rust): potential key recovery through timing sidechannels”
  4. Submitted Raid and Dm-Integrity as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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