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Jonathan Street

Personal blog · jonathanstreet.com/blog · on HN as streetyprogrammingsecurity

Jonathan Street's personal blog at jonathanstreet.com covers programming and security. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A partial password implementation”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

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streety · 430 karma · member since 2008

My blog: http://jonathanstreet.com/ Email jonathan at the domain above

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A partial password implementation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. My personal site is https://jonathanstreet.com/ It's in need of some help so I've been looking around for inspiration. I'll be taking a look at everything posted. Some I've found previously I like: http://blog.echen.me/ https://www.liyaoxiang.com/ http://www.randalolson.com/ https://jvns.ca/ http://www.nowozin.net/sebastian/ http://www.emilio.ferrara.name/ http://danielnee.com/ http://daynebatten.com/ https://thomas…

    Comment linking /

    on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”
  2. Submitted Django and Scrapy as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. I came across Shamir's Secret Sharing recently when thinking about how a partial password scheme might best be implemented. I even went as far as writing up an implementation of the cryptographic aspects. https://jonathanstreet.com/blog/partial-passwords/

    Comment linking /blog/partial-passwords/

    on “Shamir's Secret Sharing”
  4. Submitted Setting up backups with tarsnap as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Very doable. I have FIDO U2F set up on my personal site and wrote a barebones example at https://jonathanstreet.com/blog/flask-second-factor-authenti... I've thought about adding support for remembering devices but using the token is so easy it's just not a priority.

    Comment linking /blog/flask-second-factor-authentication/

    on “Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)”
  6. Submitted A partial password implementation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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