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Crypto Disasters
- Mar 18, 2017 Security Specifications for the Layperson
- Aug 7, 2016 The Challenges of a Lightweight Secure Channel
- Jul 16, 2016 Is Fixing Symmetric Keys The Worst Sin?
- Jul 15, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 3
- Jul 13, 2016 Attacking Crypto Using Stolen Keys
- Jul 12, 2016 Plaintext Symmetric Keys, fixed IVs, oh my!
- Jul 8, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 2
- Jul 7, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 1
- Jul 4, 2016 Crypto is a Munition* for a Reason
Embedded Design Practices
- Aug 28, 2016 Securing BLE Links
- Aug 21, 2016 When NULL is a Valid Address
- Aug 8, 2016 Cryptography Does Not Always Mean Encryption
- Jul 24, 2016 Do you need an OS?
- Jul 22, 2016 Malloc is an Antipattern
Hardware Security
- May 3, 2021 Under the Hood of WebAuthn in Safari
- Aug 12, 2018 A Treatise on Voting Machines
- Dec 9, 2017 A Pragmatic Look at Trust
- Jan 16, 2017 Weaponizing Reverse Engineered Knowledge
- Jul 11, 2016 What's in a Firmware Load?
- Jul 10, 2016 Attacking Firmware Loads
- Jul 8, 2016 What Are You Leaving on the FR4* Table?
Miscellany
- Jun 30, 2016 Breaking Bad(ly designed hardware)
Principia Securitas
- May 3, 2021 Under the Hood of WebAuthn in Safari
- Nov 14, 2020 Application Trust is Hard, but Apple does it Well
- Mar 18, 2017 Security Specifications for the Layperson
- Aug 28, 2016 Securing BLE Links
- Aug 16, 2016 Control the (Command) Conversation
- Aug 8, 2016 Cryptography Does Not Always Mean Encryption
- Aug 7, 2016 The Challenges of a Lightweight Secure Channel
- Jul 30, 2016 There's No Security Without Entropy
- Jul 18, 2016 Building a Chain of Trust at Boot
- Jul 16, 2016 Is Fixing Symmetric Keys The Worst Sin?
- Jul 15, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 3
- Jul 12, 2016 How Trustworthy is that App with those Capabilities?
- Jul 11, 2016 What's in a Firmware Load?
- Jul 8, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 2
- Jul 7, 2016 Firmware Updates Gone Wrong: Part 1
- Jul 6, 2016 Write and Execute: Never at the Same Time
- Jul 4, 2016 Crypto is a Munition* for a Reason
- Jul 2, 2016 Principia Securitas: How to Mitigate Threats
Wireless Security
- Jan 16, 2017 Weaponizing Reverse Engineered Knowledge