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Soatok Dreamseeker

@soatok@furry.engineer

He/him. Gay/demi dhole (Cuon Alpinus) furry.

Blogger, programmer, security engineer, cryptography nerd. 30+

Too spicy for Twitter (banned with all the prominent journalists on 2022-12-16)

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Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs in a dumb rant about my Matrix disclosure:

Personally I would actively avoid the check,

Hmm. What a weird thing to say.

Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.

"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"

Who said that? Well, anyway:

https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285