Every time Jenn Psaki said “Crypto” tonight, @KNS said, “Cryptocurrency!” Or “Crypto means Cryptography!”
#cryptomeanscryptography
I expected we’d see Kryptos cracked in my lifetime… but not through a side channel attack involving paperwork stored at the Smithsonian.
#cryptography #cryptomeanscryptography
#cia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
Crypto Wars 2.0 continues…. Just… more narrowly.
#cryptography #eff #privacy #cryptomeanscryptography
https://www.ft.com/content/d101fd62-14f9-4f51-beff-ea41e8794265
Perhaps the DSA Crew should migrate to ECDSA Crew or EdDSA Crew nowadays?
Opening day of the 6th #pqc standardization conference #nist #fips #cryptomeanscryptography
Oh dear.
Researchers figure out how to undermine Fiat-Shamir and the Random Oracle Model to validate untrue inputs.
This has quite serious potential implications for blockchain trust although the full extent isn’t yet known.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/
Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.
#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography
Another good outcome in the UK’s lunacy case against Apple:
#technology #encryption
#nobackdoors #cryptomeanscryptography
France shows some sense and drops the backdoor mandate:
#encryption #eff #cryptomeanscryptography
#nobackdoors
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
NIST selects HQC as backup post
quantum cryptography algorithm in case there are issues with ML-KEM.
#cryptography #standards #nist #cryptomeanscryptography
#quantum #technology
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for UK customers rather than comply with UK government’s demand. It’s not clear this will satisfy them as they originally wanted access to non-UK customers as well.
To be continued…
#technology #apple #encryption #backdoor #cryptomeanscryptography
Crypto Wars 2.0 : The Empire Strikes Back
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
Beware of the crypto graffiti crews promoting potentially dangerous AES modes, use GCM instead!
Spotted in Frankfurt am Main earlier today.
Today NIST announced the approval of FIPS standards for PQC:
* FIPS 203 (Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard, CRYSTALS-KYBER submission)
* FIPS 204 (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard, CRYSTALS-Dilithium submission)
* FIPS 205 (Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard, SPHINCS+ submission)
While the road to adoption will be a long one, this is a critical first step towards the future of quantum resistant cryptography.
More info https://www.nist.gov/pqcrypto
If you’re interested in driving the adoption of PQC through open source, check out PQCA : https://pqca.org
We need to make it easy to be able to sign images and documents, and then have browsers or other software verify that signature. We did it with TLS! Why not do it with just straight up documents and images. It would reduce though not remove the possibility of images and documents being faked. You know, like the one that's going around about the situation in Israel right now.
Big win in the UK for Crypto Wars 2.0. Don’t think this will end the attacks on cryptography.
Red Team Blues is super fun so far @pluralistic thanks for this #CryptoMeansCryptography #PoorLighting #RedTeamBlues
Finished @pluralistic _Red Team Blues_ on the flight yesterday. What a great read! Happy to have been part in crowdfunding the audio book (although I stuck to the paper version myself 😉 ) and can’t wait for the next book (or any new Kickstarter from Doctorow for that matter)!
#booksofmastodon #cryptomeanscryptography #doctorow #books #bookrecommendations
All my apes gone
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