Tag: cryptography
Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous proposals, from the KIDS...
The WireGuard Protocol
Peers, cryptokey routing, handshakes, key rotation, and protocol boundaries
What is Freeq
freeq is an IRC server. It speaks the protocol your 1999 client speaks, and it adds one thing IRC never had: every participant holds a cryptographic key.
Consent Before Cryptography
My talk for Atmosphere Conference 2026
DB Orakel - kommt dein Zug zu spät?
DB Orakel erklärt, ob dein Zug zu spät kommt
quicvarint: variable-length integers in TypeScript
Encoding variable-length integers in TypeScript
Making the key version required for Key Vault cryptography APIs
Why we changed the key version to be a required parameters for Key Vault cryptography APIs in Azure SDK for Rust.
Mental Poker on atproto
I noodle about my pet atproto project for playing board & card games without a trusted 3rd party, and the foundations I'd need to make it a smooth and fun experience for people!
Rudy's Theory of Revolution
Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001 - Interview with Rudy Fraser of Blacksky
Protect your keys with the Secure Enclave
Can passkeys replace passwords
"Passkeys and the WebAuthn specification were intended to make public key cryptography accessible to average users, rather than just the domain of the tech-savvy. If done right, they could seriously improve security on the Web." @drbruced@aus.social summarises why passkeys are such a good idea in theory and explains where current implementations of the technology fall...
end-to-end encryption with sveltekit
Creating an age plugin for tlock
Development story about implementing age-plugin-tlock
Cashing In Early
As bitcoin nears an unbelievable new peak, now’s a good time to ponder DigiCash, the cryptocurrency that came first. Its idea has roots in the 1980s.