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Cloud of suspicion lifted from NIST curves

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/17/nist-curves-exonorated/
10•ibobev•2h ago

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Doohickey-d•53m ago
previously discussed; Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800)
schiffern•53m ago
Since when has evidence of a plausible innocuous explanation ever been enough to lift suspicion of an espionage intelligence operation?

If I was the NSA, the most efficient use of compute power would be to generate an enormous library of innocuous hashes/seeds, then generate my secret key pairs, then find collisions. Call it the No Cloud Of Suspicion Evil Key Generator.

Depending on the exact rainbow table used they wouldn't necessarily be able to recover the original seed generator (that would require more space, and they're already going to be stretching space limits).

dooglius•20m ago
Why would they not have released the timestamp a while back then?
Dylan16807•18m ago
As explained on the previous post, when using a method like this there's not enough innocuous seeds to find bad keys. You might semi-plausibly get really lucky and find one but not this many.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
295•jtg•4h ago•119 comments

Putting Linux on my RTX spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

https://josie.lol/blog/linux-rtx-spark
31•pfeifferj•25m ago•3 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
218•hakonjdjohnsen•12h ago•38 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
452•iamnothere•7h ago•148 comments

The reverts will continue until morale improves

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2026/10/09/the-reverts-will-continue-until-morale-improves
114•hans_castorp•2h ago•16 comments

Android apps running native on macOS

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk
198•flocked•4h ago•73 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
344•goostavos•2d ago•328 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
105•evakhoury•1d ago•42 comments

Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked

https://hexane.cc/
35•else42•1h ago•13 comments

The fire retardant in the seafood chain

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/
69•gumby•2d ago•19 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
202•debo_•20h ago•65 comments

Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/
500•groar•11h ago•94 comments

Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing
283•rbanffy•10h ago•86 comments

Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://evidence.dev/jobs
1•hughess•4h ago

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

136•rzk•10h ago•235 comments

Credit where credit is due

https://thefloatingcontinent.com/blog/credit-is-due/
33•evakhoury•3d ago•19 comments

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3
189•cmrdporcupine•4h ago•75 comments

Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks)

https://stealthium.io/blog/hands-off-detecting-model-weight-tampering
9•rafaeldavidtin•7h ago•0 comments

Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2015/spring/cs463/lecture/03_23_AES.html
68•ankitg12•2d ago•5 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
6•doener•22m ago•1 comments

Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-additional-remote-perspectives-for...
227•gslin•10h ago•73 comments

Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – RL-trained model that finds errors in agent traces

38•skull8888888•5h ago•16 comments

Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

https://simpleflying.com/chicago-ohare-digs-up-50-ton-boulder-public-names/
65•Stratoscope•19h ago•57 comments

Integer to String Conversion (2014)

https://tia.mat.br/posts/2014/06/23/integer_to_string_conversion.html
21•jstrieb•22h ago•0 comments

The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022)

https://vt100.net/dec/vt100/rom/
52•Aleksandr_NFA•18h ago•2 comments

The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ipo-private-trust-188f41f7?st=RtdGHg&reflink=desktopwebshar...
118•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•77 comments

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

http://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html
106•mindracer•7h ago•45 comments

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository
353•phoronixrly•4h ago•329 comments

Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

https://norforge.com/blog/inside_cairn
24•ragu4u•7h ago•7 comments

CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership

https://home.cern/cern-and-mistral-join-forces-to-accelerate-ai-for-science/
274•kensai•6h ago•53 comments