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New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Most technical problems are people problems"

thomasdeleeuw — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:03:36 +0000

Farming, with its many related jobs, but also making sails, brewing beer, assisting in house work, distributing coal, blacksmithing, pottery, woodworking, the list goes on. Smaller communities, with the majority of the population, in the early 1900s really were a lot of small (family) businesses.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand"

thomasdeleeuw — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:45:20 +0000

France and Germany propose hybrid schemes as well:

The german position:

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...

"The quantum-safe mechanisms recommended in this Technical Guideline are generally not yet trusted to the same extent as the established classical mechanisms, since they have not been as well studied with regard to side-channel resistance and implementation security. To ensure the long-term security of a key agreement, this Technical Guideline therefore recommends the use of a hybrid key agreement mechanism that combines a quantum-safe and a classical mechanism."

The french position, also quoting the German position:

https://cyber.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/document/follow_up...

"As outlined in the previous position paper [1], ANSSI still strongly emphasizes the necessity of hybridation1 wherever post-quantum mitigation is needed both in the short and medium term. Indeed, even if the post-quantum algorithms have gained a lot of attention, they are still not mature enough to solely ensure the security"

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "FSF announces Librephone project"

thomasdeleeuw — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:44:02 +0000

The Dutch electronic identification app, DigiD, uses the Android-native attestation API.

Also good to make a distinction between the different things you can do in an attestation procedure: bootloader/boot integrity checks, attest a specific key, and ID (imei etc) attestation.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

thomasdeleeuw — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:41:30 +0000

Definitely US pressure. NL is always eager to get on the good side of the US, even if they get nothing in return. For example participation in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and Gaza today.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)"

thomasdeleeuw — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:10:08 +0000

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?"

thomasdeleeuw — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:16:58 +0000

If anyone is curious about DSI's and ANSSI's positions referred to in this comment:

The german position:

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...

The french position, also quoting the German position:

https://cyber.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/document/follow_up...

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime"

thomasdeleeuw — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:21:51 +0000

I remember something like that happening. Someone optimzed something and boom, one billion of valuation gone. It seems ridiculous on the surface, and definitely smells of a bubble to me.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

thomasdeleeuw — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:56:12 +0000

I did something similar, share contact via QR code, offline, but with a dedicated encryption/decryption device to realize the airgap: www.qryptr.com

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350"

thomasdeleeuw — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:06:33 +0000

Not sure why this is downvoted but the sleep and dormant pico examples have quite some issues, they are still in "extras" and not in "core", so while documentation of features is my personal favorite aspect of the pico, there is room for improvement here still.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum"

thomasdeleeuw — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:59:58 +0000

Also, the museum hardly has any say in prosecution.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism"

thomasdeleeuw — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:51:25 +0000

To me, the book was mostly an eyewitness account. Orwell himself remarks on the absurd amount of factions and how bizarre things were after returning from the front. I agree with your take that he went in quite blind, but you can feel that he has experience as a journalist. I was most impressed by his descriptions of small acts of humanity in a hopelessly complex conflict.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "Anti-aging molecule successfully restores multiple markers of youth"

thomasdeleeuw — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:50:24 +0000

A sad day for humanity when death, the great equalizer, gets closer to being controlled by rich people. Not that rich people not already have access to better healthcare, but still.

New comment by thomasdeleeuw in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

thomasdeleeuw — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:51:06 +0000

Ahh, we are against violence, except when it is applied to people we don't agree with. We are against surveillance, it is only to be applied to people not in our group. We are for freedom of speech, but only if you agree with us. The list goes on.