Terracrypthttps://www.terracrypt.net/feeds/tags/security.xmlTag: security2026-03-01T20:46:16ZLinks: June 23, 2020https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/links-june-23-2020.htmlJonathan Fredericksonjonathan@terracrypt.net2020-06-24T04:24:00Z<p>
<h3>The good</h3>
<a href="http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/">You can't tell people anything</a>: On the difficulty of really conveying something to someone without hands-on experience. I've experienced this from the teacher's side recently when trying to explain Kubernetes concepts to someone who only has experience administering individual, mutable machines. I think I've also recently experienced it from the student's perspective trying to absorb some of the object capability literature. Trying to get some hands-on experience there to avoid that!
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<a href="https://dungeonscrawl.com/">Dungeon Scrawl</a>: Looks to be a quick'n'easy way to put together nice-looking dungeon maps for D&D campaigns. I haven't DM'd anything yet, but I plan to at some point.
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<a href="http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html">A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda Calculus</a>: A paper I read recently on a security model based on object capabilities. It's the best introduction to the field I've read so far; highly recommended if you're at all interested in access control, Scheme, etc. (Thanks <a href="https://dustycloud.org/">cwebber</a> for the pointer!)
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<h3>The ugly</h3>
<a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity">New bill to ban encryption without backdoors</a>: The crypto wars return. Again. Invoking three of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse">four horsemen of the infocalypse</a> literally by name.
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