Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models

zdw 58 points 8 comments July 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

evanprodromou

Wow, excellent guide! And I love the E2EE example.

mapontosevenths

This is the best gay furry blog post about threat modeling I've seen all day!

teravor

> Hybrid PQ+ECDH is a hedged bet against an algorithm break before Q-Day, but is utterly fucking useless over Pure PQ once Q-Day occurs. there is also the likelihood that Q-Day never arrives, either because something we don't know prevents the construction of sufficiently large quantum computers (eg. quantum gravity) or because the entire field was a scam. in that scenario abandoning ECC would have been pretty stupid.

Cider9986

This was a fun read. My introduction to threat modeling was from this post: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/threat-modeling/ It's a bit shorter and focused for people interested in privacy.

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