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The blog post reflects on Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' through a seminar attended by the author, emphasizing themes of public space, surveillance, and the societal pressures faced by individuals, particularly those with mental...
The text discusses the author's interest in word lists and their discovery of a secrets manager called Passbolt. They explore the sorting method used by Passbolt for word lists and the process of contributing to the project. The a...
The text introduces a random passphrase generator called Phraze, written in Rust. The author explains the reasons for creating the tool, its use cases, and the word lists it uses. The text also discusses the different approaches u...
The text discusses the history of SecureDrop's English word list, including changes made to the list and the implications of these changes. It explores the properties of the word list, such as being uniquely decodable and free of ...
The author created word lists for generating secure passphrases by blending Google Ngram and Wikipedia word frequency data. The author is unsure if the word lists are original enough to be copyrighted and is considering changing t...
The author discusses the importance of checking the licenses of Rust project dependencies and how to use cargo-deny to do so. They explain the process of using cargo-deny to check the licenses of a project's dependencies and provi...
The author introduces Orchard Street Wordlists, which are word lists created by blending the most frequently used words from Google Books Ngram data and a Wikipedia word frequency project. The lists are uniquely decodable and suit...
The text explains how to use a deck of playing cards to create strong passphrases, similar to using dice. It argues that using playing cards can provide a base-26 source of randomness, allowing for a word list of 17,576 words, whi...
The author recently learned about Cyber, a new scripting language written in Zig. They decided to write a tic-tac-toe game with it and found it different from Rust. They also reported some bugs and had some issues with syntax high...
The text discusses the process of sorting words alphabetically with Rust, focusing on the challenges of sorting words in different languages and the need for Unicode normalization. It also explains the addition of a locale option ...