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Martin Albrecht
Personal blog · martinralbrecht.wordpress.comsecuritymathprogramming
Martin Albrecht writes malb::blog, a personal blog at martinralbrecht.wordpress.com about security, math and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2025 analysis of Telegram's MTProto protocol. The commenter cites it as support for calling MTProto brittle, in a thread on Pavel Durov's claims about WhatsApp security.
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.
a blog about cryptography, math software and kittens
What Hacker News says?
See also https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/cysignals/ for history and more background.
Comment linking /2016/02/10/cysignals/
on “Cysignals: signal handling (SIGINT, SIGSEGV, …) for calling C from Python”Submitted Looking Back and Forward for Open-Source Mathematics Software as a story · 40 points
HN discussionHe offers no proof, just “trust me bro”. If they actually had found flaws, they would’ve reported them. WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol, which is built by actual cryptographers using proper formal proofs. In contrast, MTProto is not designed from a formal cryptographic approach and is described by cryptographers as “brittle”. https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/analysis-of... Telegram also has no publ…
Comment linking /2025/03/16/analysis-of-the-telegram-key-exchange/
on “Pavel Durov: "You'd have to be braindead to believe WhatsApp is secure in 2026"”Submitted A Fun Bug? Help Wanted as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling Email with Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PolyBoRi is dead, it needs your help as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Real-World Law-Enforcement Hack: The Case of Encrochat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Cython Templating as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fplll 5.0 released: strong, fast lattice reduction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fpylll – lattice-reduction for Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing (Crypto) Papers and Version Control as a story · 1 points
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