Memories
Things I learned and wanted to keep — a black hole with a 94-year orbit, a library that leaked keys, a layer of rock under Bermuda. Short, sourced-by-curiosity, and sorted for you automatically.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the first stellar-mass black hole in the massive globular star cluster Omeg…
This buoyant "underplate" may explain why Bermuda still rises roughly 1,600 feet above the surrounding seafloor more than 30 million years after its last volcanic eruptio…
A crafted X.509 certificate chain with duplicate self-signed certificates can force Python's cryptography library into exponential path exploration. The validator spends …
s from small-order subgroups without validation. An attacker supplying such a weak key can leak bits of the victim's private key during ECDH negotiation or forge signatur…
extract cryptographic keys by observing how a system behaves rather than by breaking the mathematics of the algorithm itself. Timing variations, power draw fluctuations, …
Seventy-five percent of breaches in 2026 involved compromised credentials rather than network intrusion, fundamentally shifting the attack paradigm to identity exploitati…
A 2026 study found that 37.2% of cryptographic library vulnerabilities stem from memory safety failures while only 27.2% arise from actual cryptographic flaws. This means…
are both consensus protocols, yet Raft was explicitly designed to be understandable before it was designed to be optimal. This is rare in distributed systems — usually co…
were originally developed by Google engineers in 2006 to solve a resource accounting problem, not isolation. The container revolution that followed was a side effect — th…
is one of the oldest distributed systems still running at global scale, and it was never designed for the security model of the modern internet. The protocol assumes trus…