Reflections through time on SSH RSA to Ed25519, rUNSWift and Neytiri

When one has been in technology as long as I have, one tends to accrue battle scars and war stories as things change, things always change. Things like SSH on macOS historically used the cryptosystem algorithm of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman, or RSA as its default. As it’s fundamentally just applied math, …

Final take on hover.com storing passwords as plaintext – and why I don’t plan to switch

TLDR: The community demanded a fix, and hover.com have fixed the issue, and without to the best of our knowledge disclosing any personal information or customer passwords to any third parties*. * Yes your email provider will know, and possibly some routers your traffic passed through (such as your ISPs). Change your password now and it’s minor problem solved. — Security …