david wong

Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity and the author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a crypto architect at O(1) Labs (working on the Mina cryptocurrency), before that I was the security lead for Diem (formerly Libra) at Novi (Facebook), and a security consultant for the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. This is my blog about cryptography and security and other related topics that I find interesting.

Crypto Blogging Award 2016 posted May 2017

I spent a lot of time reading this blogpost today and thought to myself: this is a great blog post. If there was a blogging award for security/crypto blogposts this would probably be the front runner for 2017.

But I can't really blog about it, because we're still waiting for a lot more good blog posts to come this year.

So what I decided to do instead, is to go through all the blog posts that I liked last year (it's easy, I have a list here) and find out which ones stood out from the rest.

please do not get offended if yours is not in there, I might have just missed it!

How does a blog post make it to the list? It has to be:

  • Interesting. I need to learn something out of it, whatever the topic is. If it's only about results I'm generally not interested.
  • Pedagogical. Don't dump your unfiltered knowledge on me, I'm dumb. Help me with diagrams and explain it to me like I'm 5.
  • Well written. I can't read boring. Bonus point if it's funny :)

So here it is, a list of my favorite Crypto-y/Security blogposts for the year of 2016:

Did I miss one? Make me know in the comments :]

Well done! You've reached the end of my post. Now you can leave a comment or read something else.

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