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If you’re on Windows 10, you’re losing support for Microsoft 365 this year
Windows 10’s end-of-support date will affect more than just the operating system. With Windows 10’s end-of-year date approaching this October, people still using the operating system have been given a choice: upgrade to Windows 11 or lose support. People have devised solutions for the latter path, including third-party apps that will keep the OS secure.…
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The 3 best Rainmeter alternatives for Windows
Add your own personalization to Windows with these free customization tools. Is your computer just a tool, or is it an expression of yourself? Just like how people once went to extreme lengths to decorate their journals and diaries, you can do the same with your desktop. Programs like Rainmeter have long offered deeper customization…
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6 pros and cons of self-hosting your media library on a DAS
If you’re weighing up whether you should get a NAS or a DAS for your media library, this might help you make up your mind. Self-hosting your own data can be a rewarding experience, knowing that you control all of it and can upgrade the amount of storage you have as you need to. However,…
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3 reasons you should use Ansible to automate your home network
Ansible may seem a tad overkill for the average user, but it can simplify network management for your home lab Experimenting with wacky projects is one of the biggest perks of a home lab, though spinning up a VM with the same ol’ OS and configuration settings can get tiresome after a while. Thankfully, certain…
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January 2025’s Patch Tuesday introduces a security fix and breaks Roblox for some reason
Goodbye, BYOVD attacks. Happy 2025! Microsoft has rolled out the first big updates for Windows 10 and 11 for the year, but don’t get too excited. Across the board, we’re seeing security fixes for the operating system, which, while very useful for warding off attacks, doesn’t really get me excited to give it a spin.…
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The January 2025 Security Update Review
Welcome to the first Patch Tuesday of the new year. Even while preparing for Pwn2Own Automotive, the second Tuesday still brings with it a bevy of security updates from Adobe and Microsoft. Take a break from avoiding your New Year’s resolutions and join us as we review the details of their latest security alerts. If…
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Trustless Bridges via Random Sampling Light Clients
ePrint Report: Trustless Bridges via Random Sampling Light Clients Bhargav Nagaraja Bhatt, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart The increasing number of blockchain projects introduced annually has led to a pressing need for secure and efficient interoperability solutions. Currently, the lack of such solutions forces end-users to rely on centralized intermediaries, contradicting the core principle of decentralization…
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Pre-sieve, Partial-guess, and Accurate estimation: Full-round Related-key Impossible Boomerang Attack on ARADI
ePrint Report: Pre-sieve, Partial-guess, and Accurate estimation: Full-round Related-key Impossible Boomerang Attack on ARADI Xichao Hu, Lin Jiao The impossible boomerang attack is a very powerful attack, and the existing results show that it is more effective than the impossible differential attack in the related-key scenario. However, in the current key recovery process, the details…
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Hash-Based Multi-Signatures for Post-Quantum Ethereum
ePrint Report: Hash-Based Multi-Signatures for Post-Quantum Ethereum Justin Drake, Dmitry Khovratovich, Mikhail Kudinov, Benedikt Wagner With the threat posed by quantum computers on the horizon, systems like Ethereum must transition to cryptographic primitives resistant to quantum attacks. One of the most critical of these primitives is the non-interactive multi-signature scheme used in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake consensus,…
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Doubly Efficient Fuzzy Private Set Intersection for High-dimensional Data with Cosine Similarity
ePrint Report: Doubly Efficient Fuzzy Private Set Intersection for High-dimensional Data with Cosine Similarity Hyunjung Son, Seunghun Paik, Yunki Kim, Sunpill Kim, Heewon Chung, Jae Hong Seo Fuzzy private set intersection (Fuzzy PSI) is a cryptographic protocol for privacy-preserving similarity matching, which is one of the essential operations in various real-world applications such as facial…