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AI Primer: Image Models 101
It’s spring of 2023, and if you aren’t paying attention to what’s happening in the world of AI, you really should. The world is about to change in big ways!
I’ll save the general discussion on AI for another post — I’m hoping for this article to be one of a multipart series where we dive into the practical aspects of each major area of advancement. My goal is to give readers a taste of what’s going on, what the capabilities of these AI models are, and why you should care.
Let’s start with image generation models, as they’re the oldest in...
Redesign of Tox’s Cryptographic Handshake
In 2017, Jason A. Donenfeld (known for WireGuard®) reported an issue in Tox’s handshake [1]. This issue is called “Key Compromise Impersonation” (KCI). I will try to explain the issue as simple as possible:
In Tox you don’t register an account (e.g. with username and password), but instead your identity is solely based on (asymmetric) cryptographic information, a so-called asymmetric key pair. Such a key pair consists of a public part (public key) and a private part (private key). The public part, as the naming suggests, is public and contained in your ToxID which you share with your contacts to be...