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Personal blog · ctrlc.hu/~stef/blogsecurityprogramming
ctrlc.hu is a personal blog at ctrlc.hu about security and programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “PGP needs to be retired in honor”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stef's blog for its security and cryptography writing, including a post arguing that PGP is not broken despite the Efail vulnerabilities. One commenter says the blog is worth following.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- PGP needs to be retired in honor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-23
What Hacker News says?
There is good reason to believe the weaknesses introduced by the NSA with the PX1000-cr algorithm were introduced as part of a series of multiple backdoors that cooperate together [2][3]. The equation system to be solved is rather huge (~20 megabytes when shown as ASCII text), therefore it is logical to assume the NSA required more efficient techniques to break it in the 1980s. The fact that the first and last chara…
Comment linking /~stef/blog/posts/pocorgtfo_21_12_apocrypha.html
on “NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr”Submitted PGP needs to be retired in honor as a story · 133 points
HN discussionI know OP personally and have a high regard for him. His blog at https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/ is also worth following.
Comment linking /~stef/blog/
on “Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots”Submitted Pitchfork as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell there is more to it though: https://secushare.org/PGP https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/on_pgp.html
Comment linking /~stef/blog/posts/on_pgp.html
on “No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities”Submitted Stef/blog/ – Why and how to use OPAQUE for user authentication as a story · 2 points
HN discussionsome time ago i made a comparison between different jailing tools: https://ctrlc.hu/~stef/jails.txt
Comment linking /~stef/jails.txt
on “Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux”Submitted Anonshort as a story · 2 points
HN discussioni am the author of a password manager which you don't have to trust: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/sphinx.html
Comment linking /~stef/blog/posts/sphinx.html
on “Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?”Submitted Eidas QWACs fiasco and browsers gatekeeping as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a new kid in town: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/sphinx.html pro: it has much stronger security guarantees than the rest, it's self-hosted, but you can use other peoples servers! cons: there is no UI frontend for macs, and UI integration in browser could also be improved. (i'm the author, ama)
Comment linking /~stef/blog/posts/sphinx.html
on “Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password”Submitted Improving Parltracks impact as a story · 1 points
HN discussioni use utterson: http://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/utterson_v1.0.html
Comment linking /~stef/blog/posts/utterson_v1.0.html
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