The Hummingbird-2 Lightweight Authenticated Encryption Algorithm
Hummingbird-2 is an encryption algorithm with a 128-bit secret key and a 64-bit initialization vector. Hummingbird-2 optionally produces an authentication tag for each message processed. Like it’s predecessor Hummingbird-1, Hummingbird-2 has been targeted for low-end microcontrollers and for hardware implementation in light-weight devices such as RFID tags and wireless sensors.
hummingbird  crypto  eprint 
march 2011
OpenSSL Dev on FIPS
To send to the next person who claims FIPS 140 crypto is a good idea. "No one uses FIPS validated cryptography for fun (there is no technical, functional, or security advantage, in fact FIPS validated crypto is undesirable from any purely practical perspective)."
fips 
march 2011
ePrint 2010/658: ABC - A New Framework for Block Ciphers
How is this different from a normal tweakable block cipher?
ciphers  cryptography  eprint 
december 2010
A Modest Proposal
Denominating currency in a way that exposes opportunity costs. Specifically, in units of dead children.
economics  rationality 
december 2010
How To Become An Open-Source Contractor
"It just sort of happened, like sex with a much-older neighbor."
work 
december 2010
Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
rationality  lesswrong 
december 2010
Clang Language Extensions
__has_feature should become part of standard C/C++. Being able to do preprocessor level feature checking would be incredibly useful.
clang  c++ 
december 2010
OKWS
The webserver OKCupid uses internally. Written in C++ and apparently very fast. Uses SFS libraries.
okws  webserver  security  c++ 
december 2010
Archives of the Caml mailing list > Message from Julian Assange
"Revealing a passphrase only requires (some of) the brain and jaw or hand to be left functional. Revealing a passphrase is quick and requires few higher cognitive functions, thus it is vulnerable to peak pain, hallucinogens and `truth drugs' such as schopolomine."
security  torture  inspiration 
december 2010
Cache Games - Bringing Access Based Cache Attacks on AES to Practice
New side channel attack on AES which can break OpenSSL and similar AES implementations in realtime by taking advantage of a weakness in the Linux completely fair scheduler.
crypto  aes  sidechannel  linux  eprint 
november 2010
testival - Project Hosting on Google Code
A suite of tools that can be used to automatically check that (shell)code works correctly and to test ret-into-libc attacks.
tool  shellcode 
november 2010
Helios Voting
IACR used this in the recent election
crypto  voting  protocols  software 
november 2010
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