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The NSA is not trying to weaken ML-KEM. The IETF TLS working group is simply trying to publish a pure ML-KEM specification. It does not impact the hybrid ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem speci…

Related: Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121 System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] - https://news.ycombi…

“ There was a bug in an OpenPGP library which finally gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. Our special guest William Woodruff joined us to help explain the …

I dug into this once and the "theoretical ideal" of 3 originated in a 1950s paper about vacuum tube computers, which itself immediately backed off and said the choice of base 2 is …

The video of the talk is online now too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWNUUldBEE

The best estimate I've seen is that we need about 5-7 orders of magnitude more qubits and 1-2 orders of magnitude lower error rates: https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_landscap…

Rambus bought Cryptography Research about 12 years ago: https://www.rambus.com/rambus-completes-acquisition-of-crypt...

NIST P-256 curve seed came from the X9.62 specification drafted in 1997. It was provided by an NSA employee, Jerry Solinas, as an example seed among many other seeds, including tho…

"High q-bit proprietary technology" and "specialized de-latticing algorithms" are made up terms that nobody uses.

A post talking about how Jerry Solinas provided the NIST ECDSA curve parameters and anecdotes of how they were chosen.

NIST post-quantum standards resulted from a 8+ year process and public competition: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography

The record quantum computers can factor is 21 -- and that is by cheating by already knowing the factors are 3 and 7. There are other results that use special form composites which …

This is appearing at Crypto'23: https://crypto.iacr.org/2023/program.php Video of a previous lecture is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNk3B-4TKs

Is this using unauthenticated AES-CTR mode? https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-device/blob/0447808... https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-device/blob/0447808... https://…

The record for factoring using a quantum computer is 21. Don't read that as 21 bits. 3*7. This has been the record for 12 years and that is arguably a result that is "cheating" wit…

Oded Goldreich's "Foundations of Cryptography" books are the rigorous, theoretical oriented books used in many grad-level crypto courses: https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/fo…

You can't just base a business in a QOZ and call it a QOZB. It needs to generate 50% of its gross income from within the zone and 40% of its intangible property (e.g. software) mus…

I think we are many, many years away from a quantum computer being able to break 256-bit ECC: https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_landscape https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/Cry…

I don't think QKD is practical, yet there are constantly companies trying to sell it. I don't really understand who is the market -- not big companies and not the US government. Th…

A quantum computer is not "infinitely parallel" and though it's still an open problem, it's considered unlikely that that quantum computers can solve NP-complete problems in polyno…