Sean O'Brien 100K Race Report (2024)

My "A" races for 2024 were Sean O'Brien 100K at the end of January and Tushars 100K at the end of July. 6 months is a long training block and so I decided to break it up with something in between. I've been leaning towards mountainous races with a lot of vert lately (SOB notwithstanding) and after doing a bunch of searching on UltraSignup I...

Generated by Midjourney. Prompt "Man waiting for EV to charge, bored expression, EV charging station, photorealistic --ar 4:3" I spent some time reading this HN thread in response to Wired's article on how many EV charging stations we need and I'm dumber than when I started (isn't that usually the way it is on the orange site?). On one side, we...

As mentioned in previous posts, the IETF has decided not to add support for post-quantum (PQ) encryption algorithms to TLS 1.2. In fact, the TLS WG is taking a rather stronger position, namely that it's going to stop enhancing TLS 1.2 more or less entirely, including support for PQ algorithms: While the industry is waiting for NIST to finish...

Identifying the communicating endpoints is a key requirement for nearly every security protocol. You can have the best crypto in the world, but if you aren't able to authenticate your peer, then you are vulnerable to impersonation attacks. If the peers have communicated before, it is sometimes possible to authenticate directly, but this doesn't...

After a kind of disappointing—but still the right call—decision to DNF at Teanaway 100, I found myself with a big pile of fitness, nothing planned for the rest of the year, but not really ready to just call it a season and start thinking about 2024. There weren't any races left I wanted to do, so instead I decided to try one of the adventure run...