Collaborate Disseminate
I recently noticed that someone has created an elaborate forgery of my OpenPGP key. Specifically, they orchestrated a short key (32-bit) fingerprint collision, and also forged additional keys to match those that signed my ori… Continue reading Combating Networks of Forged OpenPGP Keys on Public Keyservers
A quixotic, and slightly dubious, quest. Continue reading The Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys and Breaking Into Wallets
A quixotic, and slightly dubious, quest. Continue reading The Large Bitcoin Collider Is Generating Trillions of Keys and Breaking Into Wallets
“Please exercise care” with colliding PDFs, researchers advise software developers. Continue reading Watershed SHA1 collision just broke the WebKit repository, others may follow
Remember how experts have been saying, “Drop SHA-1” for years and years? Now they’re saying, “Told you so.” Continue reading Bang! SHA-1 collides at 38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a
Watch a car from the 90s get totally rekt. Continue reading Cars Are Crashing A Lot Better Than They Did 20 Years Ago
Yet another reason to go back to the Moon. Continue reading The Moon May Have Started as Dozens of ‘Moonlets’
Yet another reason to go back to the Moon. Continue reading The Moon May Have Started as Dozens of ‘Moonlets’
The mass media are funny in the way they deal with new technology. First it’s all “Wow, that’s Cool!”, then it’s “Ooh, that’s scary”, and finally it’s “BURN THE WITCH!”. Then a year or so later it’s part of normal life and they treat it as such. We’ve seen the same pattern repeated time and time again over the years.
Seasoned readers may remember silly stories in the papers claiming that the Soviets could somehow use the technology in Western 8-bit home computers for nefarious purposes, since then a myriad breathless exclusives have predicted a youth meltdown which never materialised …read more
