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Pascal Junod
Personal blog · crypto.junod.infosecurityscience
Pascal Junod's personal blog at crypto.junod.info covers security and science. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pascal Junod's crypto and security posts, including the btrfs hash-flooding DoS writeup, a warning about OwnCloud encryption, and a reflection on getting a PhD.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal web page of Pascal Junod
Most-linked posts?
- An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-09-09
- [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Here is a different perspective, all be it in a cynical tone: http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-f... And here's another, with much more objective tone: http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm My take on the subject matter is that: - When getting into the PhD. track, one should be aware of what he/she is getting into, and be prepared for the resulting lifestyle. - One should have an extraordin…
Comment linking /2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/
on “Why I'm Getting a PhD”Submitted An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia as a story · 211 points
HN discussionCareful with their encryption: http://crypto.junod.info/2012/05/24/owncloud-4-0-and-encrypt...
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on “OwnCloud 4.0 just released”Submitted An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (2013) as a story · 166 points
HN discussionThank you! I hope we (or others) can manage to break some more hashes to raise the awareness of this problem! See also this nice example for btrfs: http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/
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on “Breaking Murmur: Hash-flooding DoS Reloaded”Submitted [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThe full writeup is much more detailed and available here: http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/ I submitted the lwn article because it gives a nice overview and most importantly Chris Mason (btrfs maintainer) discusses the issue in the comments.
Comment linking /2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/
on “A hash based DOS attack on btrfs”Submitted About Obfuscator-LLVM, Dual-Use Tools and Academic Ethics as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hashing Apples, Bananas and Cherries as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An aspiring scientist’s frustration with modern-day academia (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hashing Apples, Bananas and Cherries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awakening Zombie Code in Apache httpd as a story · 2 points
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