01 — Writing

The reasoning, not only the result.

Write-ups of problems worth explaining at length — what the constraints were, which options lost, and what the chosen one still costs.

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Articles live on Medium; this page lists them and links out, so there is one place to publish, not two.

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Building a Search Engine for Encrypted Data, Inspired by Indonesia's PDP Law

The full reasoning behind encrypted-search-service: why decrypting a million rows to run a string compare is not a workaround, what n-grams buy and what they leak, why the field name belongs inside the HMAC input, and how versioned keys turn rotation from an outage into a config change.

Searchable encryptionUU PDPZero trust

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