zooko2.bsky.social

society if rust had used the terms shared and exclusive from the beginning

Check it out! You can actually use Optical Character Recognition or an AI to decode that funny-looking sigil in this screenshot, and recover the complete 256-bit cryptographic value. With the hex code from this screenshot, you only get 40 bits. bsky.app/profile/zook...

In addition to the beauty and strangeness of it, the really cool thing is that the SHA-256 abbreviation shown there only contains 40 bits. You can't safely rely on those hex digits from that screenshot. But the sigil is 256 bits! You can securely use the code from this screenshot.

Proud to work at Shielded Labs. We never stop defending Zcash’s security. x.com/aquietinvest...

is this a secure private sigil?

Just in time for git switching to sha256 😁

So… is anyone running Filnix in production? github.com/mbrock/filni...

It's 2007, you're staying up late patching PHP and Java servers It's 2015, you're staying up late patching PHP and Java servers It's 2026

This is the reason why I designed @peergos.org to dial by key. I wish atproto had adopted that, but I know there were reasons.

actually, 4 is a very hard to guess number, and is secure from modern attacks

Oh my! I'm amazed that my AIs and I might have found a way to make BLAKE3 *even faster* on arm64. Discovered while trying to work around a slowdown caused by Apple's Data Independent Timing security feature. Pack two BLAKE3 words into one register! (That was my idea. 🥹)

The Zcash Foundation Board of Directors has appointed David Campbell as Executive Director. Thank you, Alex Bornstein, for leading with a constant focus on bringing the Zcash ecosystem together. Welcome, David, a longtime member of this community. zfnd.org/zcash-founda...

we should do music threads more often . share your guilty pleasures and big brain stuff alike

Haha! I asked my AI what would the greatest statistician, living or dead, say about our statistical analysis of these benchmarks. My AIs answer: Fisher said consulting a statistician after the experiment is a post-mortem. 😂

A new contender has joined the fray on hashsma.sh .

Wake up, rub eyes, check hashsma.sh … WHOA! 😳 That’s very different than yesterday. Jbenisek/cyberaxe is killing it!

Wake up, rub eyes, check hashsma.sh … WHOA! 😳 That’s very different than yesterday. Jbenisek/cyberaxe is killing it!

Before the singularity as rapture, you may extract revenge against snobby intellectuals by plugging their pet problems in the Oracle. *Limited time offer results may vary no guarantees no token refunds

SHA256 vs SHA3 vs BLAKE3 𝟘 𝟙 ❒ 🔨 👀 HashSma.sh

SHA256 vs SHA3 vs BLAKE3 𝟘 𝟙 ❒ 🔨 👀 HashSma.sh

ZXC: Lossless compression built for ultra-fast decode libzxc.org

Prompted by a thread by @zooko2.bsky.social, I wrote a blog post about iroh endpoint ids and whether they fulfil the granovetter property. TLDR, they don't. Iroh endpoint ids at this time are not secrets in the cryptographic sense. www.iroh.computer/blog/blinded...

Today's update on the security margins of SHA-256, SHA3, and BLAKE3: hashsma.sh

Maths as a field of endeavour is turning into the Truth Mines that Greg Egan wrote about in Diaspora. That's also including the questions about whether we want to organically understand things or just have the understanding 'grafted' onto us.

If you had Zcash years ago, please read this. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/recover-an...

🏛️ What should Zcash governance look like for the next decade? 🛠️ In this hands-on workshop with @alexisroussel.bsky.social and Jason McGee, small groups will build their own governance models from scratch and see how they'd hold up in the real world. 🎟️ A few places left - apply now→ zfnd.org/zcon7/

omg the Rust standard library does not come with a deterministic, stable RNG? That's dumb.

What a glowing farewell for Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, and well-earned: www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

sheesh!

(Update)🛡️ What technical threats should Zcash be preparing for? 🗣️ @daira.bsky.social, @defusesec.bsky.social, @zooko2.bsky.social, Dev Ojha & Arya on where Zcash's defenses stand and where more investment is needed. Moderated by Andrew Miller. 📆 Oct 27–29, 2026, Cancún Apply now: zfnd.org/zcon7/

Me: benchmarking secure hash functions Anthropic:

Come one, come all to the next Zcash Crosslink Workshop! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...

Play long-term, positive-sum games with long-term, positive-sum people.

reading this skeet was such a rollercoaster nice :3

So apparently there's some app on Solana that has been giving people tokens backed by ZEC, and apparently there are tens of thousands of people who chose to receive this reward. Well now there's a whole HOWTO for those folks, thanks to bentertainer and ZecHub: zechub.wiki/using-zcash/...

Zcash ✕ Nym: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/revised-ny...

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Mythical agent month

I'm looking forward to when I can use a cheap distilled Chinese flash model that talks just like Opus 5.5.