Listen folks, I've seen a lot of code, I've seen code you wouldn't believe, but this, this right here, it's truly the best. The greatest, I tell you! We have the greatest coders, they write the greatest code, nobody does it better. It's tremendous, it's fantastic, it's yuge!

I just had to pull out my copy of "The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" by Silverman because a paper had the AUDACITY of referring to it without recalling the definition, and I absolutely loved the experience of fishing the definition in an actual paperback🤣 Glad I had it, tho.

We heard you all like random cats, so here's our random cat of the day. Chosen uniformly at random with verifiable randomness from our quicknet VRF round 20993439 among all the 1 available cat to draw from.

Here's an advice for you if you're discussing partnerships with vendors: stop wasting the vendor's time with idle calls if you've already picked another vendor anyway because you're "locked in by your investors' wishes". Not a good look for your team to do so.

Just refreshed the whoami.filippo.io database. If you are one of the “lucky 10,000” who’s never heard of it, try $ ssh whoami.filippo.io

Looks like my team has ensured I wouldn't be pushing any code to prod: they rustified it all, leaving me with just a few basic web backends to play with in Go. Not sure if I should be glad or sad as a founder that I cannot properly contribute to our codebase anymore 🤣

BRB, putting the G into OG devs by sneaking commits into our feature complete legacy project...

Not me doing almost the same joke every time I am in Bern train station, no, no...

Who's complaining about the speed of BLS again?

@gopherconeu.bsky.social teaching us what not to do in Go 😂

In case the "plaintext as a default and e2ee only for private chats nobody actually uses" wasn't enough of a red flag to you... I still cannot fathom how UX could actually justify Telegram adoption by the entire web3 communities, who are supposedly more likely to be concerned about privacy 😵‍💫

That feel when your elevator has a password prompt on its door...

No lies told.

Here's a statement once said about gold that will never be said about Bitcoin—even by maxis: > "Sometimes that yellow color just doesn't match the richness of celluloid or pearlized resin." You know why? Because you can’t make fountain-pen nibs out of Bitcoin, duh!

TFW you've just resized your fully-encrypted root partition thanks to LVM and cryptsetup without even rebooting, while also increasing the Argon2id parameters. 🤩 Well, if I'm offline tomorrow, you'll know why I guess.

Are you a small, independent game studio with big dreams? Fair loot drops, balanced PvP, and unpredictable worlds shouldn’t be hard. Randamu gives you plug-and-play, verifiable randomness - no complex infra, no crypto team required. Just fair, secure gameplay 🎮

After the bus factor, the boat favor 🙈 Ship it, quick!

PSA: I'm not a CryptoGopher anymore, I'm a Web3 Weaver.

I don't know how I did to live so long and deploy so many docker-based setup with @cloudflare.social in front without knowing about cloudflared tunnels. These are amazing, no more exposed port or firewalling issues, just straight from dev to production.

NFT Rarity Isn’t Magic, it’s Math and signature. If your NFT's rarity traits aren’t backed by verifiable randomness, then your rarity isn’t real. Randamu brings verifiable randomness on-chain, making rarity truly trustworthy.

From fair games to NFT drops, randomness shapes outcomes. The problem? It can be gamed. Randamu fixes that 🎲 Using threshold cryptography, we generate randomness that can’t be predicted or manipulated and can be publicly verified on-chain.

Couldn't agree more. I have also met many other people at RWC that were similarly disappointed to learn that on the last day.

Some Apple engineers must be having a laugh seeing their joke exposed 😂 #realworldcrypto

Super interesting number from the Let's Encrypt talk at #realworldcrypto : they need HSMs doing PQ sigs at a rate of at least 10,000 signatures per second to consider doing PQ at their scale.

As both a speaker in large venues and an attendee, here's my 2c of advice for speakers: if you're presenting at something larger than a little meet-up, please try to remove the slides you won't be using from your presentation rather than jumping around 😅 1/2

Just gonna say, but I hope Signal won't throw away deniable authenticity of insiders, it's a neat property for messaging apps. #realworldcrypto

😂 #realworldcrypto

OH at the Open-source Cryptography Workshop "Google C++ doesn't have exception" 🤯

Can't believe Chrome on Android is bringing back the URL bar at the bottom... I was there in 2018 when you deprecated that option, stop claiming it's a new feature 😂 prolly someone who wasn't happy with the change back then finally joined the Android Chrome team 🤣

Always think twice before asking me to handle the coffee setup 😋 unless you want to undergo an espresso crash course. Our @randamu-labs.bsky.social team mountain retreat is featuring a modded Gaggia, with full flow profiling and temp control caps. Mandatory training for all employees has been given.

New blog post just dropped! "No Peeking! How to Build a Sealed-Bid Auction with On-Chain Timelock Encryption", powered by threshold-cryptography like everything we do. drand.love/blog/2025/0...

A single @grafana.bsky.social dashboard tab in my browser uses 9GB of RAM after having been opened for ~1 hour and basically unwatched for 55 minutes...

I wrote about a cryptographer's best excuse to build a crazy gaming rig in 2025 😋 check it out and let me know if you've got a 5090 for benchmark purposes xD

Our Chief Cryptogopher @anomalroil.bsky.social wrote about how many RTX 5090 you'd need to find SHA-1 collisions in 2025, check it out on @drand.bsky.social blog:

While I thought politicians should be trying to move one's country forward, I'm shocked to see them in France or the USA just undoing whatever their predecessor tried to do. Like, if you can't choose a direction for your country using democracy maybe you don't have a democracy...

Number 6 might surprise you: did you know that you could win an on-chain lottery programmatically if it consumes more gas when you loose compared to when you win? 🤯

Instead of reading crypto papers, creating a PoC or trying to break things, this week I've done, in order: - CSS text animations - Javascript and debugging of versioning issues to no avail - terraform to deploy ALPN on Network Load Balancers to support gRPC Startup life @randamu-labs.bsky.social 🤷‍♂️

A 4090 has a SHA1 hashrate of 50638.7 MH/s as per hashcat benchmarks, compared to the 22757.6 MH/s of a 3090, it basically means a SHA1 collision is nowadays only taking 26.3 GPU months (as per the "SHA1 is a Shambles" estimates, let me know if I missed another paper since then) vs 5 GPU years 🤯

Here's a hard learned founder secret to solve hiring fatigue: after reviewing 100s of CVs to hire our first SWE @randamu-labs.bsky.social, doing 10s of interviews and struggling six months ago, we nowadays just send the job desc to the one person we want to hire and we hire them. Easy-peasy. 🙃

And yet I can't count the numbers of times I heard the words TEE proposed as a solution to so many challenges in the digital identity space, or for CBDCs 😭🫠

Every single time I need to transcode some video, I struggle finding the correct ffmpeg options to make sure I use my GPU fully... Surely transcoding AV1 to H.264 should be doable at more than 2x speed... It's barely using my GPU and yet I specified all the VAAPI options I could get to work 😩

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Super excited to share this! I'm starting a new journey leading an awesome team to offer alternatives to centralized authorities in games, digital identities, and CBDCs @randamu-labs.bsky.social! www.einpresswire.com/article/7619...

So, where are my thousands of new friends?

Total conflict of interest, but you should read @filippo.abyssdomain.expert latest's blog entry about age plugins if you like the idea of being able to do your own hybrid encryption with it easily: words.filippo.io/dispatches/a...

Less than a week to go until the second submission deadline for the Communication in Cryptology journal of the IACR.... cic.iacr.org/callforpapers

So, if I'm working with BN curves, let's say BN256 or BN254 and I'm using the Fouque-Tibouchi method to do hash-to-curve, do we agree I can call it SSWU as per RFC9380? That's my read of eprint.iacr.org/2019/403 at least.

RIP myself, didn't get invited to HACS this year 🥲 Guess I'll have to wander around Toronto for 3 days instead. Or maybe try and crash the hack day, as an anonymous hacker.

Anyway take this with you into the holiday season