Lotte’s Attic

Megolm key confusion

Established cryptographic algorithms like Signal’s double ratchet algorithm may include guidance or cautions for application or modifications of the parameters or construction used. But what can happe…

Optimizing Links for QR Codes

QR Codes are a well-supported enough way to transfer someone onto a website on their phone.But how do you make QR codes that don’t require a large surface area to scan correctly? (The answer probably …

New entrances to Lotte’s Attic

This website now can be accessed as an onion hidden service and through sneakerweb

Braille Features on the Euro Bills proposals

The ECB published 10 new potential Euro designs, 5 of which featuring featuring Europeans of various importance, and 5 featuring european Birds.Another feature that is visible on 9 of them are their d…

Porting MIPI-DSI drivers to newer versions of Linux

MIPI-DSI is a display interface for, especially embedded, display panels, commonly used on embedded hardware.These display panels generally need different initialization code, and depending on hardwar…

Rant: Keccak, or the case for software-first ciphers

This is a short rant on SHA3/Keccak which I have some non-security-related issues with

Missing Salamanders: Matrix Media can be decrypted to multiple valid plaintexts using different keys

End to end encryption in chat protocols is a complex topics with lots of pitfalls.One such pitfall is failing to verify that a ciphertext is meant to be decrypted with a specific key, or that a cipher…

Malicious homeserver can trick Element/Schildichat into revealing links in E2EE Rooms

The Desktop and Web versions of the popular Matrix client Element, as well as its fork Schildichat, support link previews. These can also be activated inside of end-to-end encrypted chats.The problem …

CSS Tip: Hamburger Menus without Javascript

Expanding or slideover style menus are a popular way to create menus in newer websites, since they are friendly to touchscreen users (unlike menus that activate on hover).I will show you how I have im…

Pokémon Gen 1 Living Pokédex Journey: Boulder Badge

As mentioned in the previous blog post, I am creating a Living Dex in Pokémon Yellow. Currently I possess a total of 40 Pokémon from previous games, but this number is of course going to increase star…

Pokémon Gen 1 Living Pokédex Journey Introduction

I have wanted to build a living Pokédex in the Pokémon games for quite a while and decided that this summer would be as good time as any to start catching them all. After noticing accidental save corr…

Managing Passwords without storing them

This article explores an alternative to regular password managers that attempts to store as little information about passwords as possible

Setting up Final Fantasy 14: Online on NixOS

Final Fantasy 14 is an MMORPG that is fully playable on Linux with only minor bugs and that I have been playing for a while now. This post will describe my personal setup of it.Parts of this will also…

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