Hacker News: Hypomixolydian

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

Hypomixolydian — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:05:20 +0000

Shamir saved my bottom once, by helping me reconstruct random password used for almost forgotten backup, suddenly needed to be restored at once. Thank God I distributed shares in my family, "just in case".

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

Hypomixolydian — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:02:39 +0000

In my humble opinion US TLAs don't need to touch Veracrypt at all. They are already in Windows, so keymaterial exfiltration is probably a child's play for them.

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

Hypomixolydian — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:22:51 +0000

For example pointing to the research confirming that Veracrypt is not secure somehow (if such belief has any justification in facts).

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

Hypomixolydian — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:02:49 +0000

How so? Veracrypt was independently audited, even by German BSI [1] and no serious problems were found. [1] https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

Hypomixolydian — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:00:30 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Air-Bus Hijacking: Silently Taking over Avionics Systems"

Hypomixolydian — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 05:56:37 +0000

In case of Polish crash, according to the official Polish government report, the Russian involvement is more than possible: https://www.smolenskcrashnews.com/pdf/2022-smolensk-crash-re...

New comment by Hypomixolydian in "Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows"

Hypomixolydian — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:11:52 +0000

This is what Manly P. Hall described as "acroamatic cipher" in his book "The Secret Teachings Of All Ages" [chapter "The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophy"]