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2026 1

  1. The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means

2025 2

  1. A SOLID Load of Bull
  2. Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick 3 or Get None

2023 3

  1. Monocypher 4: The Clean Break
  2. Fixing the TPM: Hardware Security Modules Done Right
  3. The Source of Readability

2020 4

  1. Cryptography is not Magic
  2. Surrounded by Elligators: Implementing Crypto With Nothing to Compare to
  3. Cofactor Explained: Clearing Elliptic Curves' dirty little secret
  4. 128 Bits of Security and 128 Bits of Security: Know the Difference

2018 2

  1. Fast Multiplication with Slow Additions
  2. What is Left to do After your Open Source Project is Done

2017 5

  1. How I Implemented my Own Crypto
  2. Monocypher
  3. The Programmer's Ring
  4. The design of Poly1305
  5. The design of Chacha20

Undated 3

  1. Assignment Statement Considered Harmful
  2. How to avoid the assignment statement
  3. Ussm