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Into the symmetry

Personal blog · blog.intothesymmetry.comsecurityprogramming

Into the symmetry is a personal blog at blog.intothesymmetry.com about security and programming. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption (JWE) – RFC 7516”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
15HN people?
2016–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2017

Most-linked posts?

  1. Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption (JWE) – RFC 7516
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-13
  2. The RFC 5114 saga
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-21
  3. The Curious Case of WebCrypto Diffie-Hellman on Firefox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-07
  4. Slack SAML authentication bypass
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. asanso · 2017-03-14
    The author of http://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2017/03/critical-vulnerabili... here FWIW. Personally I would not be so drastic. JOSE per se is not too bad (at least the idea is cool). Some crypto choices though have been really arguable...

    Comment linking /2017/03/critical-vulnerability-in-json-web.html

    on “JSON Web Tokens should be avoided”
  2. CiPHPerCoder · 2020-01-07

    Submitted The Curious Case of WebCrypto Diffie-Hellman on Firefox as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. sarakayakomzin · 2020-01-25
    https://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2020/01/the-curious-case-of... seems like it'll break on firefox now.

    Comment linking /2020/01/the-curious-case-of-webcrypto-diffie.html

    on “Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site”
  4. aburan28 · 2016-11-30

    Submitted Into the symmetry: All your Paypal OAuth tokens belong to me as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  5. kushti · 2017-03-13

    Submitted Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption (JWE) – RFC 7516 as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  6. bracewel · 2016-10-21

    Submitted The RFC 5114 saga as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. relyio · 2017-10-09

    Submitted Predicting the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator knowing the factorization as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. based2 · 2017-03-15

    Submitted Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption (JWE) – RFC 7516 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. robin_reala · 2017-03-14

    Submitted Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption (JWE) – RFC 7516 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. adamnemecek · 2016-11-28

    Submitted All your Paypal OAuth tokens belong to me – localhost for the win as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. fanf2 · 2017-10-28

    Submitted Slack SAML authentication bypass vulnerability as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. wslh · 2017-10-27

    Submitted Slack SAML authentication bypass as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. wyldfire · 2017-04-10

    Submitted CSRF in Facebook/Dropbox – “Mallory added a file using Dropbox” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. bahjoite · 2016-10-27

    Submitted The RFC 5114 saga as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. vuln · 2018-12-11

    Submitted Persistent XSRF on Kubernetes Dashboard – Redhat Keycloak Gatekeeper on MS Azure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. based2 · 2017-08-15

    Submitted CVE20177781/10176 Elliptic curve add in mixed Jacobian-affine coord. in FF/Java as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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