I use AI a lot in my day-to-day life, mostly for personal research and quick questions, or to write code for things that I’m not going to publish online as Free and Open Source Software and I’m too lazy to write them myself. What I don’t use it for is...
This post is written by a human being (me). Personally I am not a fan of RocksDB because of it being such a headache to get basic things working like replication, clustering, high availability. But I recently used continuwuity to host a matrix homeserver hosting thousands of users (it never...
This post is written by a human being (me). Haraka Hash is really interesting to me, it’s not a typical checksum hash function like SHA, or Blake, nor it is a KDF like Argon2 or scrypt. Instead, Haraka is designed as an AES-based permutation, optimized for short inputs and extremely...
This post is written by a human being (me). Disclaimer: This might sound like a stupid idea, but believe me, I had good reasons for it. In the previous post on the making of SARE, I went over how and why I integrated master seeds into the architecture. That laid...
This post is written by a human being (me). A few years ago, I started working on a project called the Sare Project. Sare stands for Safe At Rest Encryption. I wanted to make a hybrid post-quantum encryption library and tool to be a post-quantum replacement for GPG. I have...
This post is written by a human being (me). There’s been a lot of talk lately about Qubic, a mining pool that might be trying to pull off a 51% attack on Monero. If you’re not familiar, a 51% attack happens when one miner or mining pool gets control of...
This post is written by a human being (me). Every time mass protests erupt in Iran, a familiar pattern follows: the flow of information stops. The internet slows to a crawl or disappears entirely. But how does a modern country survive cutting itself off from the internet? Wouldn’t that break...
This post is written by a human being (me). Freedom starts from within, once we break through the external controls and take control over our own lives and decisions. Although avoiding external controls might not sound feasible at the moment, just like avoiding cholera was not feasible a hundred years...
This post is written by a human being (me). Telegram is really close to the worst when it comes to privacy, security, and anonymity, which highly matters if you are an activist, a protester, a journalist, or even a normal paranoid human being. Telegram is a platform that keeps on...
This post is written by a human being (me). Since Trump’s election and even before that, news kept coming out about how crypto was going to change the world, how the US was going to become the crypto capital of the world, and how they wanted to build strategic reserves...
This post is written by a human being (me). There are a lot of cool projects that unfortunately have been abandoned or unmaintained for years, but that doesn’t mean they added no value. Studying what they’ve done, taking their unique ways of doing certain things and their problems can lead...
This post is written by a human being (me). I had an idea for a project that required Proof of Work as a part of it, but I couldn’t find any Rust libraries that would have Argon2id or Scrypt algorithms and were meant to provide proof of work functionality without...
This post is written by a human being (me). I was playing a CTF at 247CTF.com, called “Secure Session” with the description, “If you can guess our random secret key, we will tell you the flag securely stored in your session.” It was surprisingly easy to capture the flag; it...
This post is written by a human being (me). This is a guide for those who live under heavy internet censorship and restrictions and want to host their own censorship circumvention tools and services to bypass the firewalls and access the free internet. To understand how these censorship systems and...
This post is written by a human being (me). If you have ever lived in a country with advanced internet censorship, such as China or Iran, you would know how challenging it is to bypass these restrictions. In this post, I want to discuss the methods by which these firewalls...
This post is written by a human being (me). I have two Linux machines that I constantly switch between, and I had a problem syncing my ZeroNet1 data between my machines. Additionally, I didn’t want to share my data with a third-party server. So, I decided to make a portable...
This post is written by a human being (me). I recently started doing CTF challenges. A few days ago, I was working on a challenge from 247CTF.com. I found a challenge that, in my opinion, shows why using ECB(Electronic Codebook) mode for encrypting with block ciphers like AES or Twofish...
This post is written by a human being (me). In my previous post, I took a technical look at ZeroNet, explaining how it works and the technologies it uses to create a peer-to-peer web-like network. In this post, I want to discuss how you can maintain privacy and security in...
This post is written by a human being (me). ZeroNet has always been a project that I’m very passionate about, and I enjoy contributing to it. It is a Peer-to-Peer Web-Like Network that cannot be censored or taken down, thanks to its decentralized nature. When I first started exploring ZeroNet,...
This post is written by a human being (me). As censorship systems like GFW(Great Firewall of China) and Roskomnadzor(Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology) have evolved, people have fought back and developed numerous tools, methods, and protocols to bypass these firewalls and connect to the open and...
This post is written by a human being (me). I have been using rbash to restrict users’ shell access for the past year, and there have been some problems with it that finally led me to write my own shell. The biggest problem was that users could run bash, dash,...
This post is written by a human being (me). A few months ago, I accidentally came across a highly underrated cryptocurrency named VerusCoin, and I immediately fell in love with it because of its unique features and the techniques that VerusCoin’s developers used to provide those features. And in this...
This post is written by a human being (me). If you care about privacy and anonymity, or if you live in a country with very restricted internet access, you might have used Tor (The Onion Router) for anonymity or to bypass censorship. In both cases, you might need to use...
This post is written by a human being (me). After years of dedication to privacy and anonymity in the online world, I have come across a few simple things that can put you above average in terms of privacy and security. Think before share What you share online can stay...
A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without...