The HSM universe is a nightmare. It’s genuinely terrible.
It’s like someone at the NSA in 1991 decided what the use-cases and APIs should look like, and nobody ever cared to bring any of it into the 21st century. It’s such garbage.
This is the “use cases” section for Amazon CloudHSM and reading the manual it’s like: yup, that’s pretty much all you could ever do with this garbage API.
The state of the art in 2021: multisig authentication.
Oh look, ten years into the cryptocurrency era they finally bothered to support secp256k1 (“blockchain”). Good luck with EdDSA.
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I think it’s funny how little computer security people know about the Dapp ecosystem. It’s like they’re living in the hotel from The Shining and they have no idea what’s going down in Room 237.
Crypto/security people: we can’t *possibly* run a secure messaging app over the web because everything’s too insecure!
Dapp folks: let’s secure $100m using Javascript served by Cloudflare.
I still don’t understand why “let’s make system RNGs fast and insecure in case someone wants to run a Monte Carlo simulation” was ever considered to be anything other than the dumbest of all possible thoughts.
Apparently there is this huge population of language/OS users running Monte Carlo simulations and THEIR LIVES WILL BE UTTERLY RUINED if those simulations run slow.
I mean if I’m doing statistical simulations and the built-in system PRNG is slow, what’s the impact? I guess I’ll have to spend the 10 minutes copy/pasting the Mersenne Twister off Wikipedia. Seems pretty non-devastating.
I headed over to the Home view to see why tech Twitter has gotten so much lamer, and it’s all people speculating on when Bitcoin will hit 100K.
So henceforth this account will just speculate on the Bitcoin price.
I’ve been using Latest Tweets for a couple months now and switching back to Home is like going home to find your parents have turned your bedroom into a Taco Bell.