If you’re forced to Watch a Political Attack Ad on TV, at least you know it’s an Ad and the Name of the Entity who Paid for it.
That’s Not True on the Internet.
And that… Read More
Mental Illness in YA Month is coming to an end, so I thought my penultimate post should highlight YA novels and teen non-fic featuring/about mental illness that are yet to come out that I'm… Read More
People belonging to the baby boomer generation are members of their own exclusive club
The baby boomer generation is sticking out everywhere in our society. It’s not only because we re… Read More
Most of us watch games of various sports and because of that, most of us also have, shall we say “a difference of opinion” with the officials and rules from time to ti… Read More
Previously on Dead Ends in Cryptanalysis, we talked about length-extension attacks and precisely why modern hash functions like SHA-3 and BLAKE2 aren’t susceptible.
The art and scie… Read More
In A Furry’s Guide to Cryptocurrency, I briefly mentioned that NFTs are a dumb idea and not a valid reason for anyone–but especially furries–to get involved with cryptocurr… Read More
NIST opened public comments on SP 800-108 Rev. 1 (the NIST recommendations for Key Derivation Functions) last month. The main thing that’s changed from the original document published… Read More
If you can somehow avoid using RSA (i.e. using Elliptic Curve Cryptography instead), then don’t use RSA at all. Then you can skip this blog post entirely and all is right in the world… Read More
Earlier this year, Cendyne published A Deep Dive into Ed25519 Signatures, which covered some of the different types of digital signature algorithms, but mostly delved into the Ed25519 algori… Read More
A mech fan wakes from a terrible nightmare. In her dream, she finds herself in a society where anthropomorphic robot and cyborg art is widely considered cringe by popular society, and romant… Read More
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already knew that I attended DEFCON 30 in Las Vegas.
If you were there in person, you probably also saw this particular nerd walking around:
T… Read More
Who was the first person to invent the Telephone?
A person using a very early form of the telephone
Have you heard that there are more telephones than people in the world?
There are… Read More