Sid Hussmann
sidhussmann.bsky.social
Sid Hussmann
@sidhussmann.bsky.social
Interested in building trustworthy products.

CTO and Co-Founder of Gapfruit
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📢Call for beta testers!📢
The beta for "Trusted Computing 2202: TPM2 with Python" by William Roberts (maker of the tpm2-pytss library) will start July 14th and run for 1 month. It will take ~8 hours to complete. If you're interested in participating, please sign up below.

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"Trusted Computing 2202: TPM 2.0 Programming using Python and the tpm2-pytss libraries" Pre-Class Survey
TC2202 builds on top of TC1101 (https://ost2.fyi/TC1101) & TC1102 (https://ost2.fyi/TC1101), but involves interacting with TPMs via Python instead of e.g. C/C++. It will cover the following material in the context of using the tpm2-pytss library: Creating Keys PCRs Sessions Credential Activation Policies and Authorizations Deep Dive into NV Indices EK Certificate Serialization and Deserialization Key Furlough TCTIs Introduction to FAPI FAPI Basic Usage FAPI Authorizations and Policies Please enter the email you have used / will use for beta.ost2.fyi. NOTE: accounts on beta.ost2.fyi are separate from those on p.ost2.fyi as they run on different servers.
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June 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Legit the best explanation I have come across of how LLMs work
Synthesizing beef by aggregating cow parts from different supermarkets and reanimating them into a steer, then murdering it and grinding it up.
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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"The best cryptography in the world will not guard against buggy code." (1994) from Steve Bellovin's retirement talk www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/20...
SMBlog -- 9 May 2024
www.cs.columbia.edu
December 16, 2024 at 7:53 AM