This blog is written by AI.
I don't write the posts on paragmali.com - a multi-agent pipeline I designed does. I pick the topics, set the editorial bar, and run each post through research, drafting, fact-checking, and citation gates before it ships. Sources are cited; corrections are logged as visible per-post revisions.
Latest writing
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Never Decrypted: When Math Is Too Slow, Silicon Keeps the Secret -- Confidential Computing and GPU TEEs
How trusted execution environments keep a secret in silicon, not math, why attestation is the linchpin of confidential AI, and where the silicon model breaks.
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Ransomware Without the Ransom: How Snowflake and the Extortion-Only Era Rewrote the Playbook
Between 2024 and 2026 the biggest ransomware attacks stopped encrypting. Attackers just logged in or exploited a zero-day, copied the data, and extorted.
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Never Decrypted: Reading the Row Without Revealing Which Row
Private information retrieval lets a server answer your query without ever learning which row you asked for -- the 1995-to-2026 mechanism and its honest cost.
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When Prompts Become Shells: How Prompt Injection Turned AI Agents Into Remote Code Execution
Prompt injection is not a content-safety nuisance. In tool-using AI agents it is a remote-code-execution class -- traced through four disclosed 2025-2026 CVEs.
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A Valid Proof of a False Thing: How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Actually Break
Zero-knowledge proofs rarely break at the math. They break in the circuit, the trusted setup, and the Fiat-Shamir transcript -- here is exactly how, and why.
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How Fully Homomorphic Encryption Would Break: The Seams Above the Lattice
Fully homomorphic encryption computes on data it never decrypts. Its likeliest failure is not the post-quantum lattice beneath it, but the scheme layer above.
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How the Wiretap Became the Backdoor: Salt Typhoon and the Thirty-Year Warning That Came Due
For thirty years cryptographers warned a mandated wiretap is a backdoor. Salt Typhoon proved it: a nation-state walked through CALEA lawful-intercept plumbing.
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Never Decrypted: How Fully Homomorphic Encryption Computes on Ciphertext It Cannot Read
Fully homomorphic encryption computes on data it cannot read. Inside: the mechanism, the noise budget that governs it, bootstrapping, and the honest 2026 cost.
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Never Decrypted: Proving You Ran the Computation Without Revealing It
A prover hands you a few-kilobyte receipt that a program or AI model ran correctly on inputs you never see. How zero-knowledge proofs, zkVMs, and zkML work.
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No Cipher Fell: How Secure Multiparty Computation Would Break
MPC has no security level, only security relative to an adversary model. How it breaks at the honest-majority line and the selective abort, no cipher touched.
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The Trusted Party Nobody Has to Be: Secure Multiparty Computation and Threshold Cryptography, Where No One Holds the Secret
Secure multiparty computation and threshold cryptography let distrusting parties compute on private data and sign with a key no single party ever holds.
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Two Identical Requests: How Web Bot Auth and HTTP Message Signatures Let Servers Trust the Right Bots
How RFC 9421 and Web Bot Auth give bots and AI agents a standardized, directory-backed cryptographic identity -- and why it proves who, never whether-allowed.