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2026 7

  1. Everybody is losing their minds about cryptography because of AI
  2. Playing whack-a-mole is losing
  3. Hacking is Just Bugs
  4. The Late Show
  5. Proxies all the way down.
  6. Security teams are not a lottery ticket
  7. Stop inventorying keys.

2025 5

  1. Revocation ain't no thang.
  2. Sandboxes? In my process? It's more likely than you think.
  3. Building a security product is not the same thing as security engineering
  4. Is open-world design making games worse, or am I just getting old?
  5. How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors

2024 5

  1. Lack of post-quantum security is not plaintext
  2. Money for nothing, commits for free
  3. Stop trying to make CTO happen
  4. Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big.
  5. Jim

2023 3

  1. Certificates, Explained
  2. Against Weak Key Checking
  3. Tech Layoffs Oversimplified

2022 3

  1. Denormalized Schema Design with X.509
  2. Paper Napkin Math for Evaluating Startup Opportunities
  3. Tech Debt? I don't believe it exists.

2021 4

  1. Roll your own crypto, then smoke it.
  2. Trunk-Based Development with Git
  3. Why is there no order queue for game consoles?
  4. Write Simple

2020 2

  1. UDP in Go
  2. College Football, COVID, and Institutional Failure

2019 1

  1. Reasons to Go to Grad School

2018 1

  1. Academic Security Conferences

2016 1

  1. On Branded Vulnerabilities