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Paul Miller
Personal blog · paulmillr.com/postssecurityprogramming
Paul Miller's personal blog at paulmillr.com covers security and programming. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS / TLS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Miller's posts on encrypted DNS, the Telegram story, and deterministic signatures, citing them as sources on DNS privacy, messaging security, and crypto bugs.
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.
Paul Miller. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things
Most-linked posts?
- iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS / TLS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- Deterministic signatures are not your friends3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-15
- Noble-secp256k1: Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-06
- The story of Telegram or “Why you shouldn’t listen to Hacker News”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-22
- Chokidar 3: How to save 32TB of traffic every week with one NPM package (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
What Hacker News says?
iOS and MacOS technically have this (requires a profile[0]) but Microsoft will probably drag their feed on this for the next 2 years with the amount of enterprise customers they have to keep happy; and, given that the network adapter config is still based on Aero controls, they're probably in no rush to add more configuration options before upgrading it to Metro controls. 0: https://paulmillr.com/posts/encrypted-dns/
Comment linking /posts/encrypted-dns/
on “Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH”Submitted Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave as a story · 344 points
HN discussionHere's a start of what you need to know; http://paulmillr.com/posts/the-story-of-telegram/
Comment linking /posts/the-story-of-telegram/
on “Whatsapp Web”Submitted Probability of acceptance of pull requests as a story · 127 points
HN discussionOn the one hand this is true. Particularly the quantum stuff is mostly pointless. On the other hand, failure to incorporate fresh entropy into systems — turning them deterministic - is one of the rising crypto bug classes. The best solutions will mix the two. Recent example: https://paulmillr.com/posts/deterministic-signatures/
Comment linking /posts/deterministic-signatures/
on “Entropy Attacks”Submitted The story of Telegram or “Why you shouldn’t listen to Hacker News” as a story · 22 points
HN discussionFirst of all, let me start with the disclaimer that no summary substitutes for reading the licenses in question. The MIT and BSD licenses require almost no effort to understand. The GPL (v2 or v3) makes for fairly easy reading, and seems intentionally written in a way that non-lawyers can easily understand and apply. The same mostly goes for the LGPL and Apache licenses, though the use cases for the latter don't bec…
Comment linking /posts/simple-description-of-popular-software-licenses/
on “Ask HN: What are the differences between the major free software licenses?”Submitted Noble-secp256k1: Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography in JavaScript as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chokidar 3: How to save 32TB of traffic every week with one NPM package (2019) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chokidar 3: How to save 32TB of traffic every week with one NPM package as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deterministic signatures are not your friends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deterministic signatures are not your friends as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Noble Cryptography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS / TLS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS/TLS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning fast elliptic-curve cryptography in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MyNewPassport as a story · 1 points
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