rustgo: calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

[русский] Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptography is unforgiving. Wouldn't it be nice if… »

Cleaning up my GOPATH with Homebrew

tl;dr: use the script at the bottom to go get into the Homebrew "Cellar" and keep your GOPATH clean. I personally like GOPATH and import paths, but while trying to reduce my laptop to a thin reproducible client, I felt the pain of keeping track of the… »

Reproducing Go binaries byte-by-byte

Fully reproducible builds are important because they bridge the gap between auditable open source and convenient binary artifacts. Technologies like TUF and Binary Transparency provide accountability for what binaries are shipped to users, but that's of limited utility if there is no way (short of reverse engineering) of proving that… »

Setting a custom FileVault (macOS FDE) passphrase

FileVault 2 is the full-disk encryption system of macOS. Normally, it's turned on from System Preferences, and locks the disk with the passwords of all the users allowed to unlock the machine. Overloading the login/unlock/sudo password is an understandable UX simplicity choice, but makes it very hard to… »

Finding Ticketbleed

Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed. If you suspect you might be affected… »