Month: December 2023

CVE-2023-48795 describes a prefix truncation attack on the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. The vulnerability is called Terrapin. Why Terrapin? Terrapin is a small North American turtle (shell, get it?). Reminds me of my Alma Mater, the University of Maryland, College Park. The college football team is called Maryland Terrapins, as diamondback terrapins are endemic to… Continue reading Prefix truncation MITM attack on SSH protocol — Terrapin

I asked Bard "Explain LLVM". Bard said (in part) Imagine you have a program written in Python, but you want it to run on a device that only understands C instructions. LLVM can help you build a bridge! It provides the front-end tools to convert your Python code into an intermediate representation (IR) that’s like… Continue reading ChatGPT 3.5 vs Bard — LLVM