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Matthew McPherrin
Personal blog · mcpherrin.casecurity
Matthew McPherrin's personal blog at mcpherrin.ca covers security. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Colliding the Sum Checksum (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked page is a download of 64-bit Linux Rust 0.5 binaries compiled on Debian, offered in an HN thread about the Rust 0.5 release. The comment says nothing about writing.
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.
Matthew McPherrin’s Website
Most-linked posts?
- Colliding the Sum Checksum (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-25
What Hacker News says?
You can grab 64-bit linux binaries compiled on Debian from http://mcpherrin.ca/code/mozilla/rust-0.5-binary.tar.bz2 I don't know if that's helpful for you. I'll look into packaging stuff too.
Comment linking /code/mozilla/rust-0.5-binary.tar.bz2
on “Rust 0.5 released”Submitted I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s as a story · 514 points
HN discussionSubmitted Colliding the Sum Checksum (2019) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Colliding the Sum Checksum as a story · 2 points
HN discussion