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  1. Why do some large, reputable open source projects not provide digital signatures for software downloads? I thought everyone did this now, but neither Golang or Postgres sign downloads they publish. Why not?…

  2. The End of Programming (mdwdotla.medium.com)
  3. The Defcon password cracking contest begins this Friday. You'll learn more about PKC (encryption and digital signatures), PGP encrypted/signed emails, password hashes and see real-world passwords cracked by some of the…

  4. The Defcon Password Cracking Contest (contest-2022.korelogic.com)
  5. Has anyone written an agent for password protected Age secret keys? Something like ssh-agent or gpg-agent? I've thought of writing one (or experimenting with existing agents), but wanted to ask HN first. If you have…

  6. Dice-O-Matic (hackaday.com)
  7. I've recently begun using Age more seriously for encryption. Currently, I distribute my public Age key via a named DNS TXT record. $ dig +short TXT age.w8rbt.org I was wondering how other HN Age users distribute their…

  8. I am experimenting with using Ed25519 keys in a side hobby project. It's just a toy webapp (nothing serious). Users may register for accounts and provide their public Ed25519 keys. Later, when they wish to login, they…

  9. Is the Hacker News source code and infrastructure public? I'm interested in web application security and performance and was hoping I could learn more about HN's source code and infrastructure.