former @googlechrome security. host @scwpod. cofounded @censysio. cryptography, startups. “ruthlessly practical". Go blue!

Washington, DC
I wrote a post about how security undervalues preventing problems, and how this can be exasperated by AI and the vulnpocalypse, even though AI should actually make robustness much easier for defenders
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How do you even generate an RSA key with d=4, I ask, not wanting to be told the answer.
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I'm hearing Anthropic has decoded the Voynich Manuscript?
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First, they came for the CSVs and I said nothing, because I exported to JSONL
Ban CSV! Ban JSONL! Ban SQLite!
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New update to cryptoconspiracybench.org/! Anthropic - 2 Everybody Else - 0
Claude and @avhwl also found that Skipjack cipher's s-box is generated by srand48(48571) plus some swaps.
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Ban CSV! Ban JSONL! Ban SQLite!
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photo inspired by @internetraj and Norton Antivirus
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I saw the new Facebook movie yesterday, and while it was an enjoyable Sorkin film, it was nowhere near his best work, and it's unclear who this movie is for or what lesson they're trying to get the viewer to take away.
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It both stands for nothing (except for maybe Facebook did J6?) yet will be disliked by liberals, conservatives, MAGA, and Facebook themselves.
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David Adrian retweeted
Your move, fellows. cryptoconspiracybench.org/
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Dammit, now I owe money to charity.
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Ok Matthew you dont believe David’s empiricism. How about a renowned mathematician? people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/t… David’s “search razor” is a totally plausible theory of success and it lines up with both what we have done and what actual math people think.
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David Adrian retweeted
It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
TIL that global spending on alcohol is still larger than AI infrastructure spending this year ($1.7T vs $1.5T)
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If I see the word "durable" one more time, I'm going to lose my god damn mind.
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None of these guests would pass the Bush-Gore "candidate I'd like to have a beer with" test. The first CEO to go on Cheeky Pint and delete ten beers will be elected president.
Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark. We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth. Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.
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I spent a week's worth of ChatGPT Pro quota on breaking RSA and I was not able to improve on L(1/3).
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Everybody calm down.
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I was told the only way to stop "distillation" was to make it illegal.
Over the last few months, we’ve made significant progress in reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks against Claude. In this post, we explain how: anthropic.com/research/disti…
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I am now "Test of Time" years old.
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If I see the word "durable" one more time, I'm going to lose my god damn mind.
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