nothackingnothacking@infosec.exchange
Nov 9, 2026, 9:41 PMBase64 is somewhat limiting for ASCII art, but I present a quantum proof™ RSA certificate:
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- nothackingnothacking@infosec.exchangeNov 9, 2026, 9:51 PMBest viewed with
openssl s_client -connect funnies.maurycyz.com:443 2>/dev/null < /dev/null | sed -n /BEGIN/,/END/p | grep --color=yes -z "[B]"
hexaheximalhexaheximal@mstdn.socialNov 10, 2026, 3:49 AM@nothacking I feel like this could be a whole niche artistic genre, it's really cool :)
- hexaheximalhexaheximal@mstdn.socialNov 10, 2026, 3:50 AM
@nothacking I'm honestly pretty surprised that this is possible at all... but... math:tm:
cryptography continues to surprise me!
Nov 10, 2026, 7:09 AM@nothacking@infosec.exchange wtf is "quantum proof RSA"? doesn't post-quantum mean "oh god please stop using RSA"???
- nothackingnothacking@infosec.exchangeNov 10, 2026, 7:21 AM@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud The key asks nicely for people to not hack it. The hope is that anyone with a quantum computer will feel bad and go factor someone else's key.
/s
My server does support post-quantum key exchange (X25519MLKEM768) so it's safe against quantum store-now-decrypt-later attacks. This is not a concern for signature schemes, so there's no real need to upgrade certificates until after quantum computers become realistic threat. 
Painless Tonicnonspecialist@aus.socialNov 10, 2026, 11:19 PM@nothacking @davidgerard @bigiain Sorry, not sorry. I had to. Here's a handy private key to go with it (this is a valid key, hence the messy bits where the ASN.1 structure requires things like the header for each sequence specifying the modulus, exponent, etc)
Alt text contains the key as ASCII as well
