2026-09-23 18:10 UTC
Radicle, the peer-to-peer Git forge designed by cryptocurrency weirdos, made a little whoopsy-doodle and left the encryption out of their transport layer and the authentication out of the authentication handshake: radicle.dev/…/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-netw…
Shot:
Anyone who can observe the network path between two nodes can read the data they exchange as the data is sent in plain text.
Chaser:
Peer authentication in the connection handshake is broken and allows impersonation. An attacker can connect to your node and present a Node ID that is not its own.
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@jaschop@awful.systems 2026-09-23 21:30
The concept seemed interesting to me, but they did seem to enjoy making everything as complicated as possible. Idid find a CLAUDE.md when I was browsing their core repos a while back. That was only the web frontend I believe, not the core algorithm. Though it seems generous to assume they weren’t slopping up that one too.