XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging(adele.pages.casa)

92 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 66 comments

macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken(taoofmac.com)

28 points by rcarmo 8 months ago | 2 comments

Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?(minimaxir.com)

229 points by _Microft 2 years ago | 140 comments

Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT(geekbench.com)

35 points by hajile 6 months ago | 14 comments

What's Hashing? (2022)(blog.dvsj.in)

31 points by ctxc 3 years ago | 25 comments

Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification(danielmangum.com)

46 points by hasheddan 4 months ago | 25 comments

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq(lists.thekelleys.org.uk)

358 points by chizhik-pyzhik 5 months ago | 199 comments

Mailing list post by dnsmasq maintainer Simon Kelley announcing six CERT CVEs for long-standing dnsmasq vulnerabilities and a patched 2.92rel2 release.

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys(ergaster.org)

323 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 130 comments

A TIL blog post explaining how to recognize base64-encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys by their characteristic leading characters.

iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol(security.apple.com)

515 points by galad87 2 years ago | 247 comments

Apple Security Research blog post introducing PQ3, a post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage end-to-end encryption.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability(github.com)

83 points by timbill 22 days ago | 11 comments

GitHub issue in net4people/bbs where a reporter alleges Xray-core maintainers concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability for half a year.

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s(mcpherrin.ca)

461 points by ahlCVA 1 month ago | 106 comments

Blog post by Matthew McPherrin describing factoring the RSA keys of a 1990s-era certificate authority and what it says about RSA security.