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blog.bjrn.se
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blog.bjrn.se is a personal blog at blog.bjrn.se about security and programming. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Let's Build an MP3 Decoder”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for introductory explanations of cryptography and protocols, such as its elliptic curve primer built from groups and fields and its post on a modern IRC client protocol.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Let's Build an MP3 Decoder5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-10-01
- Trusted Timestamp using TLS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-01
What Hacker News says?
This is pretty good! The arithmetic of elliptic curves gets very complex, but I like how you arrived at points on an elliptic curve just by defining groups and fields. It might be a slight improvement to give a short, Rudin-style explanation of the difference between a set and a field. You could do this from first principles of set theory without being so terse as to be incomprehensible or diving into the axioms; I…
Comment linking /2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.html?m=1
on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners”Submitted Let's Build an MP3 Decoder as a story · 201 points
HN discussionThese specifications just capture how the IRC protocol currently operates, so that isn't described here (isn't widespread afaict, and there isn't a clear 'winner' in terms of implementations/mindshare). The issue with something like E2E encryption is getting rough consensus with all the vendors, which is what the IRCv3 WG focuses on: http://ircv3.net/ There's been a number of E2E encryption methods proposed in the p…
Comment linking /2009/01/proposal-for-better-irc-encryption.html
on “Modern IRC Client Protocol”Submitted Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008) as a story · 193 points
HN discussionIf you like this you may possibly enjoy my blog post about creating an elliptic curve for cryptographic use (for fun): http://blog.bjrn.se/2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.ht... I also have a lot of elliptic curve code for Python here: https://github.com/bjornedstrom/elliptic-curve-chemistry-set
Comment linking /2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.html
on “Elliptic Curves as Python Objects”Submitted Implementing an MP3-decoder in Haskell as a story · 68 points
HN discussionIf you liked that you may like my blog post about generating ecc domain parameters: http://blog.bjrn.se/2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.ht...
Comment linking /2015/07/lets-construct-elliptic-curve.html
on “Introducing Elliptic Curves (2014)”Submitted Non-realtime publishing for censorship resistance as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cabinet of curiosities: A bunch of cryptographic protocol oddities as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compute this: Using side-channel attacks to steal private keywords as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted TrueCrypt Explained (2008) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s build an MP3-decoder (2008) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Holiday planning by Debian packages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trusted Timestamp using TLS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s build an MP3-decoder (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s build an MP3-decoder (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- nl · 2011-07-08
Submitted Let's build an MP3-decoder as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Let’s construct an elliptic curve: Introducing Crackpot2065 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun with the TLS handshake as a story · 1 points
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