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blog.cr.yp.to 24d ago

2026.06.19: EuroQCI Feedback

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xcancel.com 1mo ago

Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely

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blog.whatsapp.com 1mo ago

Incognito Chat with Meta AI: a private way to chat with AI

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web.archive.org 5mo ago

MP3Car Projects Circa 2002

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www.youtube.com 7mo ago

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis Is Bollocks – Peter Gutmann Kawaiicon NZ 2025 [video]

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archive.openssl-conference.org 8mo ago

The Anatomy of a Dysfunctional Standards Body – Peter Gutmann [pdf]

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chrispenner.ca 8mo ago

Ditch your mutex, you deserve better

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www.fastmail.com 10mo ago

The Cache Crash

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

ChatGPT used to build assistive software for Leukodystrophy [video]

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www.theverge.com 1y ago

Apple has won legal battle in UK to disclose backdoor publicly

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www.retinadata.com 1y ago

Exploring the effects of jumbo frames (2022)

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medium.com 1y ago

Letters between John W Backus and Edsger W Dijkstra (1979)

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www.wyden.senate.gov 1y ago

Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications

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www.cs.auckland.ac.nz 1y ago

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]

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bugs.launchpad.net 1y ago

OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays (2009)

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walnut356.github.io 1y ago

Why is language documentation still so terrible?

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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu 2y ago

The Packet Filter: An Efficient Mechanism for User-Level Network Code (1987) [pdf]

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blog.erratasec.com 2y ago

We've always been at war with Eastasia (2016)

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gist.github.com 2y ago

Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13

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wireskip.com 2y ago

Wireskip VPN

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datatracker.ietf.org 2y ago

RFC9484: Proxying IP in HTTP

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systemsapproach.substack.com 2y ago

Congestion Control Saved the Internet

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github.com 2y ago

Dsvpn (Dead Simple VPN)

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Subliminal Channel

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user.fm 3y ago

Tuba: Replacing IP with CLNP [pdf]

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blog.apnic.net 4y ago

The transition to IPv6: Are we there yet?

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forum.restic.net 4y ago

Compression support has landed in restic master

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Pick Operating System

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cr.yp.to 4y ago

The IPv6 Mess (2002)

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cr.yp.to 4y ago

The IPv6 Mess

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Let me put it this way: using my car's console controls are more distracting than using CarPlay with siri/voice control. If I'm uncomfortable though I would be in a worse shape driving, hence there's a need to set climate.

I don't know about Rivian, but I'm generally less distracted on the road with CarPlay due to Siri & Voice Control. I wish I could extend it to my native car controls such as climate control etc.

I'm guessing none to be honest. It sounds plausible but in practice it's probably too difficult to do anything useful compared to other tried and true vectors.

Everyone goes to the extremes when it comes to these theories and throws out all aspects of pragmatism.

OP was making the case that CGNAT adds to the latency in some significant way. Yes it adds latency, but it is of negligible concern.

You do realise that mobile usage is a subset of the Internet and the Internet is not just about end user connectivity.

But you still haven't addressed my original point, how has IPv6 averted the impending (at the time) IP exhaustion problem? As I remember it, we were running out of IP addresses, then we did run out, and CGNAT helped extend the life of the Internet for people on IP, while v6 still remains an island that is optional and doesn't help alleviate any of the pain.

TL;DR: v6 is not fit for purpose.

NAT / CGNAT has been doing the heavy lifting extending the life of the Internet; ipv6 has done jack shit. If v6 was useful and actually averted v4 exhaustion we'd all be accessing v6 sites/addresses at this point.

Put another way, we can drop v6 completely and the Internet will still work. Obviously wouldn't work the other way around.

As for telco addressing handsets, they could use any addressing scheme to be honest. When people talk about averting address exhaustion, they're not talking about internal addressing of networks, different problem altogether.

It was also predicted that the address exhaustion problem would be averted, in fact that was the purpose of v6. It failed to deliver.

Considerably simpler? There's two ways (maybe more?) to autoconfigure v6 addresses on a host, I'll never know or remember which to use. In v4 there's DHCP, that's all you need to know (nobody uses BOOTP). These endless choices go on and on with v6 with umpteen transition technologies to work with v4.

We are still talking a fraction of a millisecond, a few hundred microseconds at most. People are blowing out of proportion latency saved with v6, it's negligible at best, or at worst let's not forget IPv6 is two separate island because two tier-1 carriers refuse to peer (Cogent & HE).

With crypto publicly available tests come in form of KATs (Known Answer Tests), it ensures that the implementation works for certain inputs and thus it'll probably work for the whole domain, but it does not protect from subtle forms of weaknesses such as side channels.

The short version is that absolutely no-one should ever use this.

Ditto.

Heaps excited about this because there's a dearth of work in application crypto as the mindshare is dominated by PQC or Crapto.

I am a little sceptical of this because of the need for ZKP and running a RISC-V program for protocol interactions (I only had a cursory glance). But if we can do LLM inference as standard in protocols these days then this probably has a chance.

I was interested in Nix because it could automate setup and configuration of macOS features. But all it does is usually run defaults or some intermediatary. In the end I stuck with brew and wrote an idempotent setupmac() function in my bash_profile (I use bash 5) with the aid of chatgpt since it knows all the cool defaults commands, and it’s pretty much solved setting up a new account or mac (alongside a Brewfile I maintain in my dotfiles). I don’t need any of those highfalutin tools.