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plus/minus epsilon
Personal blog · blog.bren2010.iosecurityprogramming
plus/minus epsilon is a personal blog at blog.bren2010.io about security and programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on capability-based authorization. A commenter points to the Macaroons paper (cookies with contextual caveats) and a 'Macaroons in Five Minutes' explainer as related work.
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.
What Hacker News says?
There's something called "Macaroons" that can be used for this. "Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud" Arnar Birgisson, Joe Gibbs Politz, Úlfar Erlingsson, Ankur Taly, Michael Vrable, Mark Lentczner ; Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Internet Society (2014) https://research.google/pubs/pub41892/ "Google's Macaroons in Five Minutes or Less" https://…
Comment linking /2014/12/04/macaroons.html
on “Capability Myths Demolished (2003)”Submitted Cryptographic Data Structures as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elliptic Curve Playground as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Criticism of JavaScript Cryptography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Small SRP Protocol for Web Applications (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
