This morning I'm currently staring down a stack of research papers on my desk. But I just saw a headline from Hacker News that Brave, a privacy-preserving browser I'm a fan of, published a paper and code for an improved private information retrieval system.
I haven't been posting publicly lately. Instead I've been juggling mental and physical health (and seeing some improvement, thankfully)—quietly learning more low level stuff, writing some code, and reading graduate math texts. And making time for jazz music studies. But the last few months have been interesting. A lot of good security research has been making the rounds on twitter lately—like SandboxBear's OpenSSL bug—as well as bugs in authentication protocols (looking at you SPNEGO).