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Erin Shepherd
Personal blog · blog.erinshepherd.netsecurityprogramming
Erin Shepherd writes blog.erincandescent.net, a personal blog at blog.erinshepherd.net about security and programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Non-Contributory Keys in the Matrix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only HN comment questions a post by this blog about a Matrix vulnerability disclosure, arguing the flaw may not be real and the timing suggests the disclosure may not have been made in good faith.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Non-Contributory Keys in the Matrix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-18
What Hacker News says?
About the post you linked, see [1] and [2], which makes me question both whether that is an actual vulnerability (Signal, the messenger recommended by the author, also didn't have that check, and it's addition is absent from release notes and CVEs) and whether the post was made in good faith (the check was added to libsignal on the same day that the author disclosed the vulnerability to Matrix, which can be a coinci…
Comment linking /2026/02/non-contributory-keys-in-the-matrix/
on “How much of HN is AI?”Submitted Non-Contributory Keys in the Matrix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Right to Reply as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Permutations: Replacing the Block Cipher? (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion