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Notes on engineering, security, olympiad work, and occasional project retrospectives.
Latvia has participated in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics since 1995. BOI 2026 took place in the Helsinki metropolitan area (Aalto University, Espoo), and the Latvian team returned with three bronze medals.
ETSI GS QKD 014 standardized the QKD key delivery API, but it leaves the interesting parts unspecified. This post walks through the gaps: SAE identity binding, authorization, key sizing, retry semantics, bulk delivery, and the TLS channel itself.