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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:36AM (#50230909)
I have came to realization that what differentiates slop code and good code is the ambitious and how much care and soul you have put into that work. When you care about what you're building you will build it well, with or without AI.

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

Posted by znano on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:39AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/SareProject/sare

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...

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Re:Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data Fro... on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:49AM (#44826066)
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.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:35AM (#44560785)
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.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:10AM (#44559204)
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.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:03AM (#44558675)
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
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:22AM (#44558341)
It's better than SMS, isn't it? In these situations perfection is not viable.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:26AM (#44557657)
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.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:05AM (#44557535)
Yes they should work in these scenarios but requires mass adoption to run a proper mesh network infrastructure.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:03AM (#44557526)
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).
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:30AM (#44557368)
Thanks, yeah but illegal usually don't mean unobtainable
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:03AM (#44556629)
for what? nobody should follow anything blindly and im sure people in iran are more aware of this and they know how to take security precautions.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:01AM (#44556615)
Yeah, also a good source of getting information from the world in full internet shutdowns.
Re:A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:58AM (#44556594)
It is possible, i found this tool for it: https://github.com/nasnet-community/neighbor-link

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