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POSTS

• Audit of the RustCrypto `aes-gcm` and `chacha20poly1305` crates by NCC group

  by bascule on 2/27/2020, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• The Tether Conundrum: a look into a suspicious cryptocurrency

  by bascule on 1/19/2018, 5:35 PM with 70 comments

• Introducing Sequence: a cryptographicaly secure ledger-as-a-service

  by bascule on 10/23/2017, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Ivy: a new smart contract language

  by bascule on 5/17/2017, 9:46 PM with 13 comments

• RFC 6920 – Naming Things with Hashes

  by bascule on 2/27/2017, 4:34 PM with 0 comments

• Blockchains in a Quantum Future: Preventing Post-Quantum Cryptographic Attacks

  by bascule on 2/15/2017, 7:42 PM with 0 comments

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Transacting Privately on a Blockchain

  by bascule on 2/7/2017, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• Key rotation, user experience, and crypto reporting

  by bascule on 1/14/2017, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Flaws in deterministic password managers

  by bascule on 11/22/2016, 6:18 PM with 102 comments

• Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON

  by bascule on 11/2/2016, 5:06 PM with 129 comments

• Automatic-selection mechanism for data structures in MRI (Ruby GSoC project)

  by bascule on 9/1/2016, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• A gentle introduction to nio4r: low-level portable asynchronous I/O for Ruby

  by bascule on 7/12/2016, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• A tale of two cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and Bitcoin’s ongoing challenges

  by bascule on 6/21/2016, 6:22 PM with 73 comments

• On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture

  by bascule on 1/5/2016, 5:38 PM with 63 comments

• Speculation About The Eventual Death Of Bitcoin

  by bascule on 5/20/2015, 3:03 PM with 108 comments

• Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets

  by bascule on 4/21/2015, 4:48 PM with 31 comments

• Volapük: A Cautionary Tale for Any Language Community

  by bascule on 1/20/2015, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• CREAM: the SSL attack you’ve probably never heard of

  by bascule on 11/12/2014, 5:35 PM with 48 comments

• Nuke TLS from Orbit

  by bascule on 4/15/2014, 5:04 PM with 0 comments

• What's wrong with in-browser cryptography?

  by bascule on 12/30/2013, 7:56 PM with 43 comments

• Show HN: my friend made an adult blog search engine but was afraid to post it

  by bascule on 7/24/2013, 3:10 AM with 4 comments

• Imperfect Forward Secrecy: The Coming Cryptocalypse

  by bascule on 7/9/2013, 3:59 PM with 8 comments

• The cloud isn't dead. It just needs to evolve

  by bascule on 6/11/2013, 4:34 PM with 1 comments

• Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Internet surveillance program Stellar Wind

  by bascule on 6/7/2013, 1:06 AM with 1 comments

• Stellar Wind (code name)

  by bascule on 6/6/2013, 2:30 PM with 167 comments

• Any data structure can now be automatically "Merkelized" via new compiler

  by bascule on 4/19/2013, 10:29 PM with 0 comments

• Let's figure out a way to start signing RubyGems

  by bascule on 2/1/2013, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• How We Survived TechCrunch

  by bascule on 1/16/2013, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• "DCI" in Ruby is completely broken

  by bascule on 1/2/2013, 4:42 PM with 66 comments

• 2012: The year Rubyists learned to stop worrying and love threads

  by bascule on 12/18/2012, 5:30 PM with 26 comments

• All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken

  by bascule on 11/13/2012, 5:04 PM with 128 comments

• Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl

  by bascule on 6/6/2012, 4:06 PM with 15 comments

• Introducing DCell: actor-based distributed objects for Ruby

  by bascule on 4/17/2012, 4:34 PM with 0 comments

• Don't use bcrypt

  by bascule on 3/19/2012, 4:15 PM with 188 comments

• My problem with Hacker News

  by bascule on 3/9/2012, 5:14 PM with 3 comments

• Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)

  by bascule on 3/5/2012, 4:53 PM with 3 comments

• "Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?"

  by bascule on 1/31/2012, 5:39 PM with 52 comments

• Celluloid::IO: evented I/O in Ruby with a synchronous API

  by bascule on 1/30/2012, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Node.js has jumped the shark

  by bascule on 10/4/2011, 4:10 PM with 126 comments

• Object Oriented Concurrency: A Deep Dive into Celluloid

  by bascule on 9/28/2011, 3:58 PM with 1 comments

• The Trouble with Erlang (or Erlang is a ghetto)

  by bascule on 7/26/2011, 3:02 PM with 1 comments

• Funargs: Ruby-like blocks for Erlang

  by bascule on 7/21/2011, 3:38 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Celluloid: a concurrent object framework for Ruby

  by bascule on 5/11/2011, 9:50 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed systems and dynamic typing

  by bascule on 3/22/2011, 8:02 PM with 0 comments

• HTML5 is just HTML

  by bascule on 1/20/2011, 3:46 PM with 5 comments

• Video of Reia (Ruby-flavored Erlang) talk from mountain.rb 2010

  by bascule on 12/16/2010, 7:21 PM with 0 comments

• ROFLSCALE: a discussion of fibers vs threads based on a real IRC conversation

  by bascule on 11/2/2010, 4:39 PM with 2 comments

• How to make a cheap CI traffic light

  by bascule on 10/15/2010, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• Multithreaded Rails is better than Async Rails, and Rainbows is cooler than Node

  by bascule on 8/10/2010, 5:20 PM with 16 comments

• Reia: Pluggable Parsers

  by bascule on 6/30/2010, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• How to properly utilize modern computers

  by bascule on 6/29/2010, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Dear Twitter: fix your fucking shit, seriously

  by bascule on 6/20/2010, 8:47 AM with 0 comments

• If Ruby is object-oriented Perl, then Reia is object-oriented Erlang

  by bascule on 6/20/2010, 12:18 AM with 13 comments

• Is Reia an object oriented language Joe Armstrong could actually like?

  by bascule on 3/25/2009, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• How Erlang evaluates funs (i.e. lambdas)

  by bascule on 3/14/2009, 9:04 AM with 3 comments

• Reia: a Ruby-like scripting language for Erlang

  by bascule on 3/12/2009, 3:17 AM with 0 comments