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And just a few years later, Apple shipped an iTunes 2 installer that could wipe your external hard drives.

Yes, that’s the deflect part of deflect and minimize.

Because both the article and your continued arguments about ML-KEM demonstrates that in confirmed cases of NSA sabotage and in hypothetical cases of NSA sabotage, your job is to de…

Ok, let me be clear: the NIST is a proxy organization for the NSA. The declassified internal history of the NSA makes it clear that they were subverting the NIST back when they wer…

I was making the point that if you have subverted the NIST to do your bidding in what appears to be a neutral way, obviously you’re going to have some feel-good projects in your po…

As your article points out, Hoffman wrote a specification for spewing as many NSA-controlled “random” bytes into TLS packets as he could get away with, after Rescorla’s attempt fai…

To quote you: “ (I'm among an elite cadre† of cryptography-adjacents who felt it probably wasn't, but only because I thought it was too stupid to actually be used anywhere --- as s…

The Godfather Part 2 demonstrated overwhelmingly that a good part of Vito Corleone’s ill-gotten gains went to strengthening his community. The Italians in his neighborhood adored h…

DJB wrote a short history of NSA’s malicious meddling in the cryptography we all use, based on a declassified internal history of the NSA. https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html

> pure ML-KEM is much more "proven" than people are discussing. The core hardness assumption dates back to 2005, and has been intensely studied (the paper introducing it got a cryp…

> Incorrect. My argument is that they aren't the same entity. Your mind is going to be blown when you learn about proxy organizations and cut-outs.

To be clear, the Schneier Facts on Dual-EC turned out to be far more accurate than the Ptacek Gut Logic.

You do realize that the NSA spends many millions on employing mathematicians, right? And that they wouldn’t keep doing that if all the mathematicians did was get really shit-hot at…

But the NSA didn’t throw their weight around in the NIST or IETF processes trying to standardize McEliece, isogenies, HQC, or UOV. They threw their weight around trying to standard…

No, because if the NSA didn’t already know how to break one of the cryptosystems, their engagement with the contest would have looked much different. They’d genuinely engage with t…

It means that your argument is “the NSA couldn’t have subverted ML-KEM, it was written by Europeans”. You assiduously pretend that this scenario isn’t possible: * The NSA reviewed …

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I’ve tried to submit code that removed old drivers from the kernel build in some distros, and they were universally rejected. Everyone is afraid of breaking users until Torvalds sa…

Not only are there a vast amount of modules you’ll never need, the distros build and distribute most of them.

There is no support for M3/M4/M5 GPUs, period. Asahi Linux is only installable on M1 and M2 Macs.

Consider that a car made of plastic is something that only works pre-Ralph Nader. Now the NTSB would veto it in milliseconds.

Lattices themselves have been analyzed since the days of Gauss. Lattice cryptography is only a couple decades old (in the unclassified literature). The first proposed lattice-based…

Because Bernstein addresses this: >>> There is a committee at TU/e charged by law with ensuring proper grading, and I have recently learned that claims by Mr. de Valence related to…

I’m not sure why you’re hung up on SNTRUP, since DJB didn’t submit it past round 2 of NISTPQC. In round 3, DJB put his full weight behind Classic McEliece. You’ve previously argued…

Very very incorrect. EDIT: Adding more to my post here because it would be hypocritical for you to complain: 1. I feel like given how I can make accurate predictions about Henry’s …