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Writings about information security, cryptography, software, and humanity, from a member of the furry fandom.

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Featured Furries

Can’t get enough of blog posts written by furries? This post aims to curate some of the other blogs written by furries that are worth sharing with my regular readers. Many (but not all) of these furry blogs are focused on technology in some way. Background Information Many years ago, I wrote a post titled…

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Your Cryptography Conspiracy Theory Is Wrong

This conversation plays out hundreds of times a day, but (thankfully) only a handful of those involve me: Conspiracy theories about the NSA and/or NIST are a dime a dozen these days. And, ever since the Snowden disclosures in 2013, I am politically primed to directionally agree with distrusting the US government wholesale. But most…

Touching Grass Isn’t Enough: The Furry Fandom’s Issues Are Structural

The problems with the furry fandom today are not as simple as,”Furries need to touch grass!” Unfortunately, whatever you’re seeing that makes you want to say such a thing is probably a structural problem with multiple compounding factors. I will elaborate. But first, for anyone who feels lost, I need to explain where we are…

The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library

Six years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Soatok’s Guide to Side-Channel Attacks in which I discussed the general topic of side-channels in cryptographic applications, and how to avoid them, with example code in PHP. I had called out that the algorithms discussed on the page cannot rule out compiler or runtime optimizations that…

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