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Cengiz Can
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Linux Kernel Engineer at Canonical
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
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December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Those ideal conditions you are waiting will never happen.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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September 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.
This might be the best executed supply chain attack we've seen described in the open, and it's a nightmare scenario: malicious, competent, authorized upstream in a widely used library.

Looks like this got caught by chance. Wonder how long it would have taken otherwise.
Woah. Backdoor in liblzma targeting ssh servers.

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se...

It has everything: malicious upstream, masterful obfuscation, detection due to performance degradation, inclusion in OpenSSH via distro patches for systemd support…

Now I’m curious what it does in RSA_public_decrypt
March 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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🎉 #Shoutout to the incredible #openSUSE #community! Passion, collaboration & understanding of #opensource is what makes @opensuse.bsky.social thrive. Together, we help to enhance peoples' #digital life. www.opensuse.org
October 18, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Hello Bluesky!
October 17, 2023 at 2:58 PM