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Paranoid's library contains implementations of checks for well known weaknesses on cryptographic artifacts.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2022-08-26 · latest 2026-11-01

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  1. …old ass library made by google called paranoid_crypto to scan through keys for fun out of curiosity https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto > The goal is to increase the confidence in cryptography use cases inside and outside Google.…
    comment by dist-epoch · 2026-11-01 · in So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now
  2. …logical step I guess. [0]: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic... [1]: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto
    comment by renhanxue · 2026-10-22 · in CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
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    Google Paranoid Crypto, the tool used to discover the eMudhra private keys
    story by tech234a · 2026-10-22 · 1 comment
  4. I'm guessing this is the code: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/paranoid...
    comment by commandersaki · 2026-10-21 · in Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  5. > https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto This repository was archived by the owner on Aug 19, 2026. It is now read-only. I guess now that we've checked, nobody will ever make a mistake like this again so we don't need this anymore? :)
    comment by renhanxue · 2026-10-21 · in Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  6. …" I've had more than a few emails asking on how this was discovered. The simple answer is: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto Yeah, out of the box. CCADB was intended to be a quick corpus test before looking at subscriber…
    comment by john_strinlai · 2026-10-21 · in Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  7. …of the now-archived paranoid_crypto randomness tests? paranoid_crypto/docs/randomness_tests.md : https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/docs/ran... /? NIST SP-800-22 Rust: https://www.google.com/search?q=NIST+SP-800-22+rust&oq=…
    comment by westurner · 2026-10-07 · in When random is not actually random enough
  8. …: >>> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests There are NIST randomness tests, for example; https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid... https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/examples... "Traceable…
    comment by westurner · 2025-09-14 · in Beyond Traditional Pseudorandomness, Tsotchkes' Quantum Random Number Generation
  9. …inadequate to predict what we're calling random?) > google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid... .. docs: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/docs/ran...
    comment by westurner · 2025-03-10 · in Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped
  10. …From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630177 : > google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid... docs: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/docs/ran...
    comment by westurner · 2024-07-05 · in The sad state of property-based testing libraries
  11. …https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330 google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid...
    comment by westurner · 2024-06-10 · in Zero Tolerance for Bias
  12. …where would Gambler's Fallacy have caused loss? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid... Combinatorics and physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics_and_phy…
    comment by westurner · 2024-02-12 · in Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations
  13. …ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_test Google/paranoid_crypto > docs/randomness_tests.md > Tests: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/blob/main/docs/ran... "10 Tbit/s physical random bit generation with chaotic microcomb" (2023)…
    comment by westurner · 2024-01-05 · in Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50
  14. …mkl_random-feedstock: https://github.com/conda-forge/mkl_random-feedstock https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto/tree/main/paranoid... : > NumPy-based implementation of random number generation sampling using Intel (R) Math Kerne
    comment by westurner · 2023-10-08 · in Show HN: SimSIMD vs SciPy: How AVX-512 and SVE make SIMD nicer and ML 10x faster
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    Paranoid project by Google Security Team checks for cryptography weaknesses
    story by yasenn · 2022-08-26 · 1 comment