Constrained decoding guarantees a model's output has the right shape. It guarantees nothing about what a free-text field holds. Agent-to-agent pipelines that read schema-valid as validated inherit an injection surface the schema was never built to close.
RFC 9849 finalizes Encrypted Client Hello, encrypting the one field most enterprise firewalls used to inspect encrypted traffic. What breaks, what still works, and how to rebuild detection without reviving blanket TLS interception.
A four-stage PoC — from a benign tool registration to one agent exfiltrating a second, more privileged agent's secrets — shows how AI agents bridge systems using authority they already legitimately hold, bypassing lateral-movement defenses built for network paths and stolen credentials.
Encryption secures the ciphertext. The schema answers questions the privacy contract never considered — sharing graphs, behavioral timelines, search-token frequency maps. How to read a database the way an attacker does.
A technical taxonomy of web race conditions beyond TOCTOU, explaining read-write gaps, HTTP/2 single-packet attacks, and the storage-layer primitives that close them.
Most inter-VLAN routing in enterprise networks isn't done by a router. It's done by a switch that understands IP. This post breaks down how Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches differ, how SVIs and routed ports work, and why TCAM makes hardware-based routing possible.
A worked-example introduction to zero-knowledge proofs using the Schnorr identification protocol, building to the sigma protocol abstraction that underpins modern ZKP systems.
ATO isn't a CWE — it's an outcome. This post models account takeover as a composite attack class, maps the five vector families to their root causes, and builds the defense architecture that exploitation checklists leave out.
TLS fingerprinting catches automation tools by their handshake — until the attacker uses a real browser. Part 1 of a series on why client-side bot defense is structurally limited.
HTTP status codes are designed to be informative. That's exactly what makes them dangerous. Part 1 of a series on how RFC-compliant behavior creates exploitable information channels — and when breaking the spec is the right call.
How do you find a user without the server ever knowing who they are? A deep dive into the paradox of zero-knowledge user lookup, why every client-side blind indexing approach collapses, and how OPRF-based truncated bucket routing solves it without leaking identity.
A Python service encrypts secrets with AEAD. A Go service tries to decrypt them. Same keys, same AAD fields—authentication fails. The culprit? JSON serialization isn't deterministic. This is Part 1 of a series on AAD canonicalization: why it matters, and how to do it right.