Best security and cryptography blogs to follow

13 of the 211 blogs in the full directory of engineering blogs are tagged Security and cryptography. Each one is listed below with a one-line description and who recommended it.

Filippo Valsorda and Matthew Green explain cryptography engineering for people who are not cryptographers. Colin Percival and Seth Larson write about security from the side of maintaining software that other people depend on.

Last updated 3 October 2026

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Cloudflare Blog
Company · Named by 2 people
Networking, security, performance and outage post-mortems from Cloudflare
Recommended by Vivek Nathani, Shreyas P
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Personal
Open-source GPU drivers and reverse engineering (Panfrost, Asahi)
- Graphics and games
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Andrew Huang
Personal
Hardware hacking, open hardware and supply chains
- Security and cryptography
- Operating systems and hardware
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Colin Percival
Personal
FreeBSD, Tarsnap, cryptography and security
- Security and cryptography
- Operating systems and hardware
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
D. J. Bernstein
Personal
Cryptography and security
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
David Buchanan
Personal
Reverse engineering, security and clever hacks
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Filippo Valsorda
Personal
Cryptography engineering, Go crypto and open-source maintenance
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Ken Shirriff
Personal
Reverse-engineering chips and vintage computers
- Security and cryptography
- Operating systems and hardware
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Matthew Green
Personal
Cryptography engineering explained
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Nicholas Carlini
Personal
Machine learning security, LLMs and playful hacks
- Security and cryptography
- AI and machine learning
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Russ Cox
Personal
Go, regular expressions, dependency management and supply chain
- Compilers and languages
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Seth Larson
Personal
Python security and open-source supply chain
- Security and cryptography
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)
Ted Unangst
Personal
OpenBSD, security and C
Recommended by Phil Eaton (The Consensus – Required Reading)

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