Hacker News: znano

Dextroproporphan: An Analogue for a Better Dextromethorphan?

znano — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://monfak.top/blog/posts/dextroproporphan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534573

Points: 39

# Comments: 15

Show HN: Telegram feed reader using DNS TXT records for Iran's Internet shutdown

znano — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:41:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sartoopjj/thefeed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739532

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Practical Evaluation of an Opportunistic Communications Protocol Based on Libp2p

znano — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:52:43 +0000

Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11860150/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783720

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Sare, a Qunatum-Safe Encryption at Rest Tool

znano — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:10:30 +0000

Article URL: https://sareproject.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276803

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A Hybrid Post-Quantum Encryption System Implemented in Rust

znano — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:39:01 +0000

I built SARE, a standard for encryption like PGP implemented in Rust. It uses classic cryptographic algorithms like ECCs and Diffie-Hellman like ed25519/x25519 along with post-quantum signature and KEM algorithms like Dilithium3 and Kyber.

The implementations include sare-core for core cryptographical processes and sare-lib as a high-level library built on top of sare-core to make it really easy to use and integrate with your own applications.

Also, there is a CLI implementation called sare-cli built on top of sare-lib, which in its initial version supports asymmetric and symmetric encryption, signatures, revocation and validation certificates, and more.

I am not a cryptographer, so I would really appreciate the security considerations and suggestions that you guys might have.

Repo link: https://github.com/SareProject/sare

Docs link: https://sareproject.github.io/docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210849

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Haraka Hash: A Look at AES-Based PoW for Blockchains

znano — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:34:57 +0000

Article URL: https://zola.ink/blog/posts/haraka-hash-a-look-at-aes-based-pow-for-blockchains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982177

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by znano in "Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch"

znano — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:49:09 +0000

Yeah thanks for the suggestion, i guess i can allocate a few bytes at the end of the header for the MAC so it would prevent tweaking the metadata.

Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch

znano — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:21:53 +0000

Article URL: https://zola.ink/blog/posts/making-of-sare-how-i-designed-a-file-format-for-encrypted-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825673

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Making of SARE: Master Seeds in Hybrid Post-Quantum Encryption

znano — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://zola.ink/blog/posts/making-of-sare-master-seeds-in-hybrid-post-quantum-encryption

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796528

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A script that manages sing-box VPN configurations

znano — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TheyCallMeSecond/sing-box-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796524

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Protect the Freedom Money (Monero)

znano — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:02:44 +0000

Article URL: https://zola.ink/blog/posts/protect-the-freedom-money

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733111

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Blog series on creating an OS in Rust

znano — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:01:10 +0000

Article URL: https://os.phil-opp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733094

Points: 135

# Comments: 10

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:35:29 +0000

I do what i can do, I do care about surveillance by Google, Meta and others, that's why i wrote a book on privacy. This was just an observation i shared.

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:10:03 +0000

I don't think the islamic regime is that advanced intl wise to track every single movement on the internet. maybe true for US if it turns totalitarian one day. But i do agree that they want to do so, not denying that at all.

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:03:43 +0000

Also hosting technical wikis would be super useful (because there won't be any other way to use ChatGPT or google stuff), and efficient (storage wise) if deployed with kiwix

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:22:39 +0000

It's better than SMS, isn't it? In these situations perfection is not viable.

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:26:17 +0000

Also obfs4 i believe is widely used there, either with tor or standalone(obfs4 over SSH). And dynamic port forwarding using SSH alone is widely used and fairly simple.

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:05:11 +0000

Yes they should work in these scenarios but requires mass adoption to run a proper mesh network infrastructure.

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:03:13 +0000

Yes also typical disturbance noises seem to not work on these satellites otherwise they would've done it. probably due to them being LEO satellites. because they have stronger signals and that makes it harder for noise/jammers to overpower legitimate signals (higher signal-to-noise ratio).

New comment by znano in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

znano — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:30:53 +0000

Thanks, yeah but illegal usually don't mean unobtainable