Post #4191790
2026-07-29 06:58 UTC
(I included Tao in the last post mostly as a joke because, despite his success in mathematics, he comes across as humble and approachable in everything he writes, and I admire that.)
You can do this too.
Maybe don't roll your own crypto today. That's a team project anyway.
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@soatok@furry.engineer 2026-07-29 07:01
But let's be real: At least 10% of my reason for doing any of this is because I'm a shitlord at heart. Do you know how funny it is for folks at cryptography conferences to be like, "Oh I helped design the Keccak permutation that became SHA-3 and later went on to work on sponge-based authenticated ciphers?" And to want in that moment to be like, "I have a blog. It has stickers!" You have to be willing to make a total fool of yourself for your own amusement to understand me at all.