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immigrant | software engineer in card payments
liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1, SS7 and EBCDIC.
30-something who's grew up online and has seen it all. sometimes an optimist, sometimes nostalgic.

I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. These days I spend a lot of time studying social dynamics and thinking about how we build social systems which foster a healthier culture.

Profile Picture is FALKE from Signalis (you should play it). See also: @erinfluorescent

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Recent Notes

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Halelujah, the Ceph project has finally released fixes for CVE-2025-30156 and CVE-2026-39944 which I first reported to them in December 2024.

On the one hand, I granted them additional time to work on this one because it’s an absolute nightmare of a bug to remediate, requiring coordination across several projects with their own release cycles. I understand that it takes more than 3 months to build this sort of key rotation infrastructure.

On the other hand, it is also incredibly disappointing that it has taken 20 months to release a fix for this.

And thirdly, this demonstrates that Ceph (like many similar projects) hasn’t been receiving sufficient cryptographic review. This vulnerability has existed in CephX authentication since it was created, and worse, is a near-exact repeat of a Kerberos 4 vulnerability well known since at least 2003