Ryan S.
Ryan S.
Security engineer | Blockchain Developer

Blog specialized on Security, Crypto and blockchain.

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    How Fail2Ban Works — Architecture, Privilege Model and Residual Risk

    How Fail2Ban Works — Architecture, Privilege Model and Residual Risk

    Fail2Ban reads logs and rewrites the firewall as root. Its jail architecture, the tag-escaping pipeline, and why a filter regex is a security boundary.

    2026, Sep 03   —  29 minute read
    The Hyperliquid Protocol - HyperCore, HyperEVM and Onchain Perpetual Mechanics

    The Hyperliquid Protocol - HyperCore, HyperEVM and Onchain Perpetual Mechanics

    How Hyperliquid runs a native order book and an EVM under one HyperBFT consensus, and how its margining, oracles, liquidations and HIP standards work.

    2026, Sep 02   —  37 minute read
    Hyperliquid's Onchain Order Book - Matching, Ordering, and How It Differs from a CEX and from GMX

    Hyperliquid's Onchain Order Book - Matching, Ordering, and How It Differs from a CEX and from GMX

    How HyperCore matches orders inside consensus state, why cancels beat aggressive orders in a block, and how that compares with a CEX engine, dYdX v4 and GMX.

    2026, Sep 02   —  25 minute read
    The Hyperliquid Oracle - How Validator Medians Become Mark Price, Funding and Liquidation

    The Hyperliquid Oracle - How Validator Medians Become Mark Price, Funding and Liquidation

    Hyperliquid's oracle is a stake-weighted median of validator medians, published every three seconds. Which price drives funding, margin and liquidation.

    2026, Sep 02   —  24 minute read
    The Hyperliquid Improvement Proposals - HIP-1 to HIP-4

    The Hyperliquid Improvement Proposals - HIP-1 to HIP-4

    HIP-1 tokens, HIP-2 Hyperliquidity, HIP-3 builder-deployed perps and HIP-4 outcome markets, with the stakes, auctions and slashing rules that gate each one.

    2026, Sep 02   —  31 minute read
    Merkle Patricia Forestry on Cardano — How It Differs From Other Merkle Trees

    Merkle Patricia Forestry on Cardano — How It Differs From Other Merkle Trees

    Merkle Patricia Forestry stores a branch's 16 children as a small Merkle tree, so a Cardano proof carries 4 hashes per level instead of 15.

    2026, Aug 28   —  25 minute read
    OpenSSH Detached Signatures — sshsig, Namespaces and ssh-keygen -Y

    OpenSSH Detached Signatures — sshsig, Namespaces and ssh-keygen -Y

    How sshsig signs arbitrary files with an SSH key, why the namespace field prevents cross-protocol replay, and how allowed_signers controls verification.

    2026, Aug 27   —  12 minute read
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