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@anomalroil.bsky.social
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Crypto means maths. Cryptogopher doing random stuff on the internet, quite literally.

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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I can't believe it's 2026 and ipv6 only routes don't work with mobile networks in Switzerland yet 🙄
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Tired of reading about AI, quantum safety, politics, and other doomsday material? Just post your cats. I sure need more cats in my timeline and so do you.
A beautiful tabi cat looking straight at you, with light grey hairs, a darker, almost black M pattern on the forehead, and fluffy ear tips.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Listen folks, I've seen a lot of code, I've seen code you wouldn't believe, but this, this right here, it's truly the best. The greatest, I tell you! We have the greatest coders, they write the greatest code, nobody does it better. It's tremendous, it's fantastic, it's yuge!
A screenshot of code that reads:

	/// 01 -> compressed infinity point
	/// the "uncompressed infinity point" will just have 00 (uncompressed) followed by zeroes (infinity = 0,0 in affine coordinates)
	isCompressed := (input[0]>>7)&0x01 == 0x01
	if !isCompressed {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("uncompressed point cannot be decompressed")
	}
	isGreatest := (input[0]>>6)&0x01 == 0x01
	// we clear both bits
	input[0] &= byte(0b00111111)
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I just had to pull out my copy of "The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" by Silverman because a paper had the AUDACITY of referring to it without recalling the definition, and I absolutely loved the experience of fishing the definition in an actual paperback🤣 Glad I had it, tho.
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drand @drand.love · 21/08/2025
We heard you all like random cats, so here's our random cat of the day. Chosen uniformly at random with verifiable randomness from our quicknet VRF round 20993439 among all the 1 available cat to draw from.
A picture of a little taby cat rolled on a couch and showing its furry belly.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Doing too much low level cryptography.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Here's an advice for you if you're discussing partnerships with vendors: stop wasting the vendor's time with idle calls if you've already picked another vendor anyway because you're "locked in by your investors' wishes". Not a good look for your team to do so.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 14/08/2025
Just refreshed the whoami.filippo.io database. If you are one of the “lucky 10,000” who’s never heard of it, try $ ssh whoami.filippo.io
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Looks like my team has ensured I wouldn't be pushing any code to prod: they rustified it all, leaving me with just a few basic web backends to play with in Go. Not sure if I should be glad or sad as a founder that I cannot properly contribute to our codebase anymore 🤣
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
BRB, putting the G into OG devs by sneaking commits into our feature complete legacy project...
A masked OG dev with the drand logo and brand on his mask, doing a Sssh sign with his finger in front of his mouth.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Not me doing almost the same joke every time I am in Bern train station, no, no...
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Who's complaining about the speed of BLS again?
A picture of a train with a BLS brand on it.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@gopherconeu.bsky.social teaching us what not to do in Go 😂
A speaker showing weird functional code in Go and pointing at a screen titled "The untyped Y Conbinator", with a Gopher in the background.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I'm sorry I didn't shout during the panel to tell everyone about FIPS in Go crypto when it really would have been needed! There was a question that would have been the perfect opening for it.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In case the "plaintext as a default and e2ee only for private chats nobody actually uses" wasn't enough of a red flag to you... I still cannot fathom how UX could actually justify Telegram adoption by the entire web3 communities, who are supposedly more likely to be concerned about privacy 😵‍💫
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
That feel when your elevator has a password prompt on its door...
The door of an elevator with a projection of a password prompt pop-up with some German text.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You mean the Quelloffenegemeinnützlichkeitsspätvergütungszuschussinitiativkonzept?
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 12/06/2025
No lies told.
The German government is better at funding open source than the entirety of the web3 industry put together.

Change my mind.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Here's a statement once said about gold that will never be said about Bitcoin—even by maxis: > "Sometimes that yellow color just doesn't match the richness of celluloid or pearlized resin." You know why? Because you can’t make fountain-pen nibs out of Bitcoin, duh!
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
TFW you've just resized your fully-encrypted root partition thanks to LVM and cryptsetup without even rebooting, while also increasing the Argon2id parameters. 🤩 Well, if I'm offline tomorrow, you'll know why I guess.
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Randamu @randa.mu · 23/05/2025
Are you a small, independent game studio with big dreams? Fair loot drops, balanced PvP, and unpredictable worlds shouldn’t be hard. Randamu gives you plug-and-play, verifiable randomness - no complex infra, no crypto team required. Just fair, secure gameplay 🎮
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
After the bus factor, the boat favor 🙈 Ship it, quick!
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
PSA: I'm not a CryptoGopher anymore, I'm a Web3 Weaver.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I don't know how I did to live so long and deploy so many docker-based setup with @cloudflare.social in front without knowing about cloudflared tunnels. These are amazing, no more exposed port or firewalling issues, just straight from dev to production.
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Randamu @randa.mu · 24/04/2025
NFT Rarity Isn’t Magic, it’s Math and signature. If your NFT's rarity traits aren’t backed by verifiable randomness, then your rarity isn’t real. Randamu brings verifiable randomness on-chain, making rarity truly trustworthy.
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Randamu @randa.mu · 07/04/2025
From fair games to NFT drops, randomness shapes outcomes. The problem? It can be gamed. Randamu fixes that 🎲 Using threshold cryptography, we generate randomness that can’t be predicted or manipulated and can be publicly verified on-chain.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Couldn't agree more. I have also met many other people at RWC that were similarly disappointed to learn that on the last day.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Some Apple engineers must be having a laugh seeing their joke exposed 😂 #realworldcrypto
A slide about the Flush+Reload attack on Square and Multiply algorithm used in some cryptographic scheme, with an overlay blue box containing the resolution allowed for timer in different browsers or ecosystems. The Apple M1 has a resolution of 42ns, a surprisingly specific number...
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Super interesting number from the Let's Encrypt talk at #realworldcrypto : they need HSMs doing PQ sigs at a rate of at least 10,000 signatures per second to consider doing PQ at their scale.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Otherwise, it's confusing for the audience and gives them the impression they're missing out on the entire thing and that you're unsure or unprepared, probably not what you want as a speaker. 2/2
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
As both a speaker in large venues and an attendee, here's my 2c of advice for speakers: if you're presenting at something larger than a little meet-up, please try to remove the slides you won't be using from your presentation rather than jumping around 😅 1/2
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just gonna say, but I hope Signal won't throw away deniable authenticity of insiders, it's a neat property for messaging apps. #realworldcrypto
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spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance @durumcrustulum.com · 26/03/2025
😂 #realworldcrypto
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Session, no?
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
OH at the Open-source Cryptography Workshop "Google C++ doesn't have exception" 🤯
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can't believe Chrome on Android is bringing back the URL bar at the bottom... I was there in 2018 when you deprecated that option, stop claiming it's a new feature 😂 prolly someone who wasn't happy with the change back then finally joined the Android Chrome team 🤣
A screenshot of the drand.love website on Android, showcasing the URL bar at the bottom of the screen rather than at the top.
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Always think twice before asking me to handle the coffee setup 😋 unless you want to undergo an espresso crash course. Our @randamu-labs.bsky.social team mountain retreat is featuring a modded Gaggia, with full flow profiling and temp control caps. Mandatory training for all employees has been given.
A nice espresso setup, with a Gaggiuino (modded Gaggia classic) on left, followed by a bunch of espresso tools and a bunch of bags of coffee beans, with a white Niche Zero grinder in the back and a naked portafilter on the front.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 10/03/2025
zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"
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drand @drand.love · 04/03/2025
New blog post just dropped! "No Peeking! How to Build a Sealed-Bid Auction with On-Chain Timelock Encryption", powered by threshold-cryptography like everything we do. drand.love/blog/2025/0...
drand.love
No Peeking! How to Build a Sealed-Bid Auction with On-Chain Timelock Encryption
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A single @grafana.bsky.social dashboard tab in my browser uses 9GB of RAM after having been opened for ~1 hour and basically unwatched for 55 minutes...
The "This is fine" meme. On the first pane, a dog with a hat sitting on a chair next to a mug of coffee on a table, and flames all around them, and smoke on the ceiling. On the second pane, the same dog saying "This is fine".
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I wrote about a cryptographer's best excuse to build a crazy gaming rig in 2025 😋 check it out and let me know if you've got a 5090 for benchmark purposes xD
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Randamu @randa.mu · 31/01/2025
Our Chief Cryptogopher @anomalroil.bsky.social wrote about how many RTX 5090 you'd need to find SHA-1 collisions in 2025, check it out on @drand.bsky.social blog:
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
While I thought politicians should be trying to move one's country forward, I'm shocked to see them in France or the USA just undoing whatever their predecessor tried to do. Like, if you can't choose a direction for your country using democracy maybe you don't have a democracy...
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Number 6 might surprise you: did you know that you could win an on-chain lottery programmatically if it consumes more gas when you loose compared to when you win? 🤯
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Instead of reading crypto papers, creating a PoC or trying to break things, this week I've done, in order: - CSS text animations - Javascript and debugging of versioning issues to no avail - terraform to deploy ALPN on Network Load Balancers to support gRPC Startup life @randamu-labs.bsky.social 🤷‍♂️
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A 4090 has a SHA1 hashrate of 50638.7 MH/s as per hashcat benchmarks, compared to the 22757.6 MH/s of a 3090, it basically means a SHA1 collision is nowadays only taking 26.3 GPU months (as per the "SHA1 is a Shambles" estimates, let me know if I missed another paper since then) vs 5 GPU years 🤯
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here's a hard learned founder secret to solve hiring fatigue: after reviewing 100s of CVs to hire our first SWE @randamu-labs.bsky.social, doing 10s of interviews and struggling six months ago, we nowadays just send the job desc to the one person we want to hire and we hire them. Easy-peasy. 🙃
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
And yet I can't count the numbers of times I heard the words TEE proposed as a solution to so many challenges in the digital identity space, or for CBDCs 😭🫠
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Every single time I need to transcode some video, I struggle finding the correct ffmpeg options to make sure I use my GPU fully... Surely transcoding AV1 to H.264 should be doable at more than 2x speed... It's barely using my GPU and yet I specified all the VAAPI options I could get to work 😩
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Yolan @anomalroil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
:3
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