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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • “The nonce reuse issue seems to be a valid security issue, but it is by no means a critical vulnerability: it only affects applications that do more than four billion encryptions with a single HPKE setup,” said Valsorda. “The average application does one.”

    No implementation should be using the same asymmetric keypair for a key exchange* more than once. This is such a non-issue that it’s kind of hilarious. Sounds like the reporter was trying so desperately to get credit for anything they could put on their portfolio, and just wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.



















  • I was thinking about this the other day and realized something:

    Back when the modern Santa character was first being developed, coal was a genuinely useful thing. It was fuel for the stove which heated your house and cooked your food. It was a basic necessity of life.

    If you were naughty, Santa didn’t just give you nothing. You weren’t going to get an awesome toy, but he made sure you weren’t going to freeze to death on Christmas, either.

    Santa believes everyone deserves to live. That having a warm place to sleep is a basic human right.

    This might be /r/im14andthisisdeep material, but I just thought that was interesting.