Royce Williams

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Just doing my undue diligence.

ISP vet, password cracker (Team Hashcat), security demi-boffin, YubiKey stan, public-interest technologist, AK license plate geek. Husband to a philosopher, father to a llama fanatic. Views his.

Day job: Enterprise Security Architect for an Alaskan ISP.

Obsessed with security keys:
techsolvency.com/mfa/security-keys

My 2017 #BSidesLV talk "Password Cracking 201: Beyond the Basics":
youtube.com/watch?v=-uiMQGICeQY&t=20260s

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Photo: White 50-ish man w/big forehead, short beard, & glasses, grinning by a display of Alaskan license plates.

Boosts not about security ... usually are.

Banner: 5 rows of security keys in a wall case.

#NonAIContent

#hashcat #Alaska #YubiKeys #LicensePlates

P.S. I hate advance-fee scammers w/heat of 400B suns

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Not "dehashed"!https://www.techsolvency.com/passwords/dehashing-reversing-decrypting/
Royce Williams23h ago

Watching Judge Judy, it occurs to me that the People's Court was sort of early reality TV. 🤯

And then of course it reminds me of the Bloom County punchline, "Rusty [the bailiff], kick these two nuts in the butt"

Royce Williams1d ago
My sister in driving, I know that navigating a high-school parking lot right after school gets out can be trying. But as a middle-aged person, flipping off a teenager is never a good look.
Royce Williams2d ago
David Reamer6d ago
As winter lingers so cruelly, I decided to look into the origins of the idiom "cabin fever." It is a more recent term than I expected, with surprising turns including President William Henry Harrison and hard cider. Below is a cabin in 1898 Beaver City. https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2026/03/22/a-condition-born-of-cold-snow-darkness-and-distance-the-history-of-cabin-fever/
Royce Williams2d ago
David Reamer2d ago
Does anybody know of a good place to get oversized flat items scanned in Anchorage? My usual place has gotten a bit pricey for a humble historian, and I have a Prinz Brau poster begging to be digitized. Also, here's an unrelated 1987 Timberland boots ad featuring Alaska. #alaska
Royce Williams2d ago
Filippo Valsorda2d ago

Last year, my position was that we still had time to design PQ authentication mechanisms.

Now, based on the pace of progress and on statements like Google's, I believe:

1. we need to finish rolling out PQ key exchange yesterday
2. we need to start rolling out PQ auth now
3. it's too late to ship any new non-PQ design or system

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/

Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear

An overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration.

Google
Royce Williams2d ago
Sam Bent2d ago

> builds a GRUB replacement in 2016
> spends 5 years breaking GRUB piece by piece
> strips LUKS encryption from /boot "for security"
> proposes to remove: btrfs, xfs, zfs
> keeps SquashFS, two CVEs, one rated 7.8 HIGH
> controls the signing keys for all of it
> Canonical promoted him.

https://www.sambent.com/canonicals-grub-saboteur-has-a-10-year-plan

Royce Williams2d ago
evacide2d ago

If you are traveling to or through Hong Kong, here is a new thing to consider when you are deciding whether or not to take your devices with you and how you should set them up.

https://hk.usconsulate.gov/security-alert-2026032601/

Royce Williams2d ago

That Ubuntu "let's make GRUB more secure by forcing a ton of use cases onto an unsecure path" is some specious BS.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Lighter-GRUB

Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year

Royce Williams2d ago
'Enumclaw' hits different now -- seems like it should be a tool for discovering AI agents.
Royce Williams2d ago
Matt Weagle2d ago
Nail guns : home building :: Agents : system design