Deirdre Connolly¹ ²
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Deirdre Connolly¹ ²
@durumcrustulum.com
🜗 🝒 🝲 crypto as in 'cryptography' 🝳 🝡 🜖

¹ isogenist, co-host SCWpod
² https://durumcrustulum.com, https://www.youtube.com/@durumcrustulum, https://patreon.com/durumcrustulum
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I finally got a tight edit up of the Signal PQ Ratchet deep dive:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUE...
Signal's Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet
YouTube video by Deirdre Connolly
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Avatar knows the people love Space Whale 🐳
December 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
i still don't understand Matt Damon as Odysseus, but it doesn't matter
incredibly hyped for THE ODYSSEY
December 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
incredibly hyped for THE ODYSSEY
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Our solution builds on research by Alwen et al., using Puncturable Pseudorandom Functions (PPRFs) to allow multiple group states to coexist securely.

This means:
- No need for a central ordering service
- Maintain Forward Secrecy even with forks
- Better support for decentralized messaging
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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We made MLS more decentralized! We are excited to share DMLS that brings fork resilience to the MLS protocol, solving a key challenge in distributed systems while maintaining Forward Secrecy.

This work was made possible by @equalitie.bsky.social, who funded it as part of the Breakout program.
Making MLS more decentralized
It’s no secret that we at Phoenix R&D are big fans of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, having helped it to come into existence. It’s a versatile group key agreement and messaging protocol ...
blog.phnx.im
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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We will be at #39C3 and we brought something exciting: Invitation codes for the beta phase of Air, our new secure messenger based on MLS! ✨

Hit us up if you’d like to join the beta with your friends.

You can also follow @air.ms, where we’ll post updates over time.
December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data (Alfred Ng/Politico)

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December 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Go get some prints for the holidays (there's a sale!) www.inprnt.com/gallery/dsam...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

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December 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
nice cage as madden?
December 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Netflix NFL broadcasts are produced by CBS but with Netflix goofiness on top which is very much Samsung truly believing the people demand Bixby
December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Die Hard is Christmas movie, Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie, yada yada yada…

The real hot take: Die Hard is a Hobbit movie.
December 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)

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December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This explains like 90% of American politics right now
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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And Tiny Sim, who DID die
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Charles also used his powers to basically build a fuckton of offshore wind, hes kind of extremely weird as an aristocrat
*through gritted teeth* God Save the King
🎵 Its the most wonderful time, of the year 🎵
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Me communicating with the new Japanese users.
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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wishing everyone a very mellow nyxmas
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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just an awful pregame show for the lions/vikes who the fuck are these people
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Programmer advice from the 70s be like “A student asked the guru Dennis Ritchie why he used C. The guru said it was because it was better than B. The student was enlightened.”
December 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🎄📀🪔🔊
December 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM