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Great summary of the state of the art of post-quantum digital signatures by Bas Westerbaan and Luke Valenta of Cloudflare: blog.cloudflare.com/another-look...
Here's their take on stateless hash-based digsigs:
Here's their take on stateless hash-based digsigs:
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Great summary of the state of the art of post-quantum digital signatures by Bas Westerbaan and Luke Valenta of Cloudflare: blog.cloudflare.com/another-look...
Here's their take on stateless hash-based digsigs:
Here's their take on stateless hash-based digsigs:
Accidentally left out this image from the "Oh wow it turns out it has BLAKE3 hardware built in" part:
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Accidentally left out this image from the "Oh wow it turns out it has BLAKE3 hardware built in" part:
Oh neat that they thank Tahoe-LAFS. :-)
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Oh neat that they thank Tahoe-LAFS. :-)
Great opinionated, mathematically sophisticated rundown of the "unknown unknowns" that could hide fatal flaws in post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, from Sophie Schmieg. My dumb take-away: stateless (*STATELESS*) hash-based digsigs are the safest.
December 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Great opinionated, mathematically sophisticated rundown of the "unknown unknowns" that could hide fatal flaws in post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, from Sophie Schmieg. My dumb take-away: stateless (*STATELESS*) hash-based digsigs are the safest.
Private digital cash is an urgent and humanitarian need, by @AlexBornstein3: www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Private digital cash is an urgent and humanitarian need, by @AlexBornstein3: www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...
Wtf. I just carefully read this entire interview with Frances Allen, only to find out at the end that it wasn’t really an interview with her, but was AI generated. “Vox Meditantis” and “Bob Lynn” have lied to me and I will not read their words again.
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wtf. I just carefully read this entire interview with Frances Allen, only to find out at the end that it wasn’t really an interview with her, but was AI generated. “Vox Meditantis” and “Bob Lynn” have lied to me and I will not read their words again.
I accidentally a whole hackathon for BLAKE3 in js/wasm. I'm now 10ⓩ poorer and the world is richer for having several new fast implementations of BLAKE3 in JavaScript. Final tally: github.com/zooko/potent... See also the "post competition followups" at the top of the README.
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I accidentally a whole hackathon for BLAKE3 in js/wasm. I'm now 10ⓩ poorer and the world is richer for having several new fast implementations of BLAKE3 in JavaScript. Final tally: github.com/zooko/potent... See also the "post competition followups" at the top of the README.
Update: it's a 3-way tie!? github.com/zooko/potent...
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Update: it's a 3-way tie!? github.com/zooko/potent...
update: ran some benchmarks of all 5 candidates plus 3 pre-existing implementations for comparison. interesting results so far! github.com/zooko/potent...
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
update: ran some benchmarks of all 5 candidates plus 3 pre-existing implementations for comparison. interesting results so far! github.com/zooko/potent...
Total ZEC in shielded pools over all time: zechub.wiki/dashboard
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Total ZEC in shielded pools over all time: zechub.wiki/dashboard
These graphs are bullish for freedom.
Total value of all ZEC over all time: coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash ⤵️
Total value of all ZEC over all time: coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash ⤵️
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
These graphs are bullish for freedom.
Total value of all ZEC over all time: coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash ⤵️
Total value of all ZEC over all time: coingecko.com/en/coins/zcash ⤵️
October 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Oh wait I was confusing David’s Sling with EarthWeb (1999). Now that I remember more, they are *both* increasingly relevant to the second half of the 2020’s in different ways. I should re-read both, but EarthWeb more, because PolyMarket.
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Oh wait I was confusing David’s Sling with EarthWeb (1999). Now that I remember more, they are *both* increasingly relevant to the second half of the 2020’s in different ways. I should re-read both, but EarthWeb more, because PolyMarket.
I just remembered about “David’s Sling” by Marc Stiegler. It was written in 1988. When I read it, probably a decade later, the political setting was embarrassingly obsolete and the tech was ridiculously speculative. But now I’ll bet they are both juuust right.
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I just remembered about “David’s Sling” by Marc Stiegler. It was written in 1988. When I read it, probably a decade later, the political setting was embarrassingly obsolete and the tech was ridiculously speculative. But now I’ll bet they are both juuust right.
omg this is so great! Thank you, Apple! Now can I can work on my laptop in the car without getting nauseated.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
omg this is so great! Thank you, Apple! Now can I can work on my laptop in the car without getting nauseated.
Here is BLAKE3, on an Apple Silicon machine that has excellent SHA256 hardware built in, running *five times* as fast as SHA256!
x.com/klaehnr/stat...
What’s going on? …
x.com/klaehnr/stat...
What’s going on? …
October 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Here is BLAKE3, on an Apple Silicon machine that has excellent SHA256 hardware built in, running *five times* as fast as SHA256!
x.com/klaehnr/stat...
What’s going on? …
x.com/klaehnr/stat...
What’s going on? …
Oh, just switch to Grok. Problem solved. Bye, Claude!
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Oh, just switch to Grok. Problem solved. Bye, Claude!
I just want to get the URL from x.com/zooko/status... to see if it is in the Internet Archive because apparently the original has disappeared from the web. It was a damn fine write-up! Great engineering details.
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I just want to get the URL from x.com/zooko/status... to see if it is in the Internet Archive because apparently the original has disappeared from the web. It was a damn fine write-up! Great engineering details.
One of my little pleasures in life is drinking coffee in bed while submitting useful bug reports to open source projects. ☺️ github.com/bazhenov/tan...
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One of my little pleasures in life is drinking coffee in bed while submitting useful bug reports to open source projects. ☺️ github.com/bazhenov/tan...
But wait! What alternative allocator did they switch to and where is their source code so I can reproduce their results?? (And test my own alternative allocator.)
September 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
But wait! What alternative allocator did they switch to and where is their source code so I can reproduce their results?? (And test my own alternative allocator.)
Hm, interesting.
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hm, interesting.
full disclosure:
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
full disclosure: