Truncated HMAC Security and Performance Trade-offs
RFC 2104 says you need at least 80 bits, but NIST's new SP 800-224 dropped the floor to 32 bits with a risk analysis requirement that nobody wants to explain.
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SimpleX Chat's X Account Hijacked for Crypto Scam
Hackers blocked the company founder from his own brand's account while promoting wallet-draining scam links.
Prison for the competition, settlements for the connected
Federal prosecutors celebrate busting consensual drug sales while pharmaceutical executives who created the opioid epidemic face zero prison time.
The CSAM Buyer Who Ran Bohemia's 12 Million Euro Drug Empire
The architect behind 67,000 monthly drug transactions and 12 million euros in peak revenue also maintained a collection of child abuse images he purchased with cryptocurrency.
Session Group Encryption: Sealed Sender Without PFS Tradeoffs
Session trades Perfect Forward Secrecy for metadata minimization, routing encrypted messages through three-hop onion paths to protect sender and recipient identities from network observers.