“Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit”: A small amount of side channel can go a long way, by Naomi Benger, Joop van de Pol, Nigel P. Smart, and Yuval Yarom. “We apply the Flush-Reload side-channel attack based on cache hits/misses to extract a small amount of data from OpenSSL ECDSA signature requests. … We demonstrate our analysis via experiments using the curve secp256k1 used in the Bitcoin protocol. In particular we show that with as little as 200 signatures we are able to achieve a reasonable level of success in recovering the secret key for a 256-bit curve.”

miTLS is a verified reference implementation of the TLS protocol written in F# and specified in F7.

My secret tip for GSoC success, by Michael Haggerty. Was posted to the Git mailing list, should be posted to all GSoC hosts.

sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats.

The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer, by chromatic.

Bestes politisches Plakat 2013, hervoragende Auswahl.

BANCStar, the worst programming environment in the world?

ArsonCoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced in 2014. It is a offensivecurrency, so-called because it uses criminal offenses to control the creation and transfer of money.