• A Tweet Before Dying by Paul Ford in Wired
  • Paul Miller new elliptic curve cryptography library, via @paulmillr on Twitter
    • Announcing noble-curves: the culmination of work on elliptic curve cryptography.
      • Pkg defines ed25519, ed448, secp256k1, P384, P521, bls12-381, bn254, pasta, stark curves.
      • Edwards, Weierstrass, Montgomery primitives, hash2curve & pairings are also in.
      • https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-curves
    • Pedro Gomez in the Twitter thread asks why the new library, some great background from Paul

      • Supply chain security: no dependencies, or minimal dependency on a package from 1 author. If you use something like elliptic, you’re exposing yourself to rogue dep updates

      • JS, not WASM: js can be audited easily, wasm cannot. You may be executing malware when using wasm lib

      • Auditability, readability: much easier to read code based on native bigints, instead of something like bn.js

      • Correctness: thorough testing with wycheproof, and others

  • Roland Tanglao asks How to publish LogSeq to GitHub Pages