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Pre-loading HSTS for sibling domains through this one weird trick

benthamsgaze.org

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Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation: sharing keys without a trusted party

benthamsgaze.org

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Applying environmental criminology to better understand and fight cybercrime

benthamsgaze.org

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The UK has left the Common Criteria security certification scheme

commoncriteriaportal.org

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A Marlin Is One of the Fastest SNARKs in the Ocean: Fast Unbatched Verification

benthamsgaze.org

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ShapeShift: Tracing transactions across cryptocurrency ledgers

benthamsgaze.org

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Next version of Android might introduce security risk for online banking and 2FA

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch7 anni fa0 comments

Will dispute resolution be Libra’s Achilles’ heel?

benthamsgaze.org

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Digital Exclusion and Fraud – The Dark Side of SMS Payment Authentication

benthamsgaze.org

3 pointsby sjmurdoch7 anni fa0 comments

Efficient Cryptographic Arguments and Proofs – Or How I Became a Monetary Unit

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch7 anni fa0 comments

Sonic: A Practical Zk-SNARK with a Nearly Trustless Setup

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch7 anni fa0 comments

Exploring dimensions of Internet liveness through holographic visualisation

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch8 anni fa0 comments

New threat models in the face of Five Eyes’ encryption interception strategy

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch8 anni fa0 comments

Longer expiry for complex passwords causes stronger passwords but more resets

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch8 anni fa0 comments

Managing conflicts between ethical principles and job duties

benthamsgaze.org

1 pointsby sjmurdoch8 anni fa0 comments

Security code AutoFill: is this new iOS feature a risk for online banking?

benthamsgaze.org

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Using Hyperledger and Trillian to audit law enforcement's access to phone data

benthamsgaze.org

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Scanning the Internet for liveness: what's it mean for an IP address to be “up”?

benthamsgaze.org

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I think Libra is special in terms of its ambition to be used by billions of people and that they took other measures (e.g. the Libra reserve to lower volatility) to make it a wide-spread payment method. Other cryptocurrencies seem to be focussed on other goals, at least in practice.

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There are some more technical details in the extended blog post – https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/08/02/do-you-know-what-you...

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My comments on some of the key findings of the report are here: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/07/13/cybersecurity-suppor...

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The open-access version of the full paper has been made available by the Internet Society: https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/blogs-me...

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An update on this story shows that GCHQ also tried to squash another key exchange algorithm (MIKEY-IBAKE) because it made surveillance too hard – and this was the motivation for MIKEY-SAKE http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/21/mikey_ibake/

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Bruce Schneier also has some stories of different but related credit card scams which also exploit the fact that authorisation codes are not checked at the time of the transaction: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/debit_card_ov... and https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/in-person_cre...