How Will #Bitcoin Defend Against #QuantumComputing? This Project Just Raised $6M
> Project 11 is working on protecting the leading #crypto network against the potential threat.
https://decrypt.co/326065/how-bitcoin-defend-against-quantum-computing-project-raised-6m
I think it's cool that web browsers have built in APIs for doing #cryptography stuff without needing to worry about pulling in dependencies.
https://www.keithbartholomew.com/blog/posts/2024-01-22-webcrypto-diffie-hellman/
It's unfortunate but true that the best way to make something secure is to make it as inconvenient to use as possible; even for legitimate users.
Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio at War - I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/crowdsourcing-sigint-ham-radio-at-war/ #cryptography #radiohacks #worldwarii #hamradio #history #wwii
If you're not following @gutenberg_org you are missing out.
A wonderful source of everything from #cryptography through #art, #feminism to the #philosophy of #physics and a whole lot more I can't make vaguely alliterate.
#ProjectGutenberg - free #ebooks
Everything You Need to Know About Cryptography (History & Examples)
Cryptography is the art of hiding the meaning of a text from everyone except the intended receivers through the use of various techniques.
by Sourima Rana
Cryptography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7599
Got to the good part of my nighttime reading: Substitution-Permutation Networks. This book is great because the equations, examples and diagrams all support each other in a way that I just keep flipping between the three for each concept until I understand the sum of the parts. #cryptography
How Many #Qubits Will It Take to Break Secure Public Key #Cryptography Algorithms?
Wow. Just learned that John Young passed away in March. A public disclosure pioneer and absolute free thinker.
A Presence-sensing drive for Securely Storing Secrets - When we hear about flash drives in the context of cybersecurity, we tend to think... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/a-presence-sensing-drive-for-securely-storing-secrets/ #usbmassstorage #securityhacks #cryptography #unlockable
OSIRIS, the student-run #cybersecurity research lab at NYU, is seeking #challenge writers for our upcoming CSAW #CTF later this year! (For those who don't know CSAW, it's one of the largest student-run #cybersec events in the world: https://csaw.io ) Web, #ReverseEngineering, #pwn, and #cryptography challenges are prioritized, and all experience levels welcome. Interested? Shoot me a DM or email osiris@osiris.cyber.nyu.edu.
macOS (and OpenBSD and FreeBSD) has a “timing-safe” byte-comparison function: https://manp.gs/mac/3/timingsafe_bcmp
It's common for byte-comparison functions like memcmp to early-terminate when a difference is found. This function always examines the whole of the two byte sequences in order to not enable certain timing attacks.
https://youtu.be/DtPKBngQcEQ?si=lyLhi-M5l8h0ff7H
During the Cold War, the US government tried to stop the export of strong cryptography, Classifying strong encryption algorithms as "arms".
This video will (briefly) delve into the history behind this event, how software (mainly Phil Zimmerman & PGP) fought the government & won.
We need to KEEP fighting, and not let oppressive governments, restrict the use of Encryption.
Since I wrote a SHA-3 implementation in Raku while also writing one in Lean 4, I thought I might as well share the Raku version too. Raku is a fun language. You can find it here: https://github.com/gdncc/Obscure
#rakulang #cryptography
They were an odd crew: the thin old man with his head slightly cocked, the stocky girl running her thumb over a raspberry cane, the small boy watching individual leaves on the maple tree quiver as they were struck by the first drops of rain.
"What's with them?" Marius asked.
"They're #code-breakers," Quentin replied. "The old man knows the code of changing air pressure. The girl reads the code in plants' defensive barbs. And the boy interprets rain."
Multi-party key recovery — perhaps the real 2nd factor was the friends we made along the way
In a Muskian Cybercoup, Mr. Big Balls parades into your server room, and copies all of your data. It is the ultimate (quasi-)insider threat.
What can you do to protect yourself against such an adversary? You can collect less data, especially focused on reducing the collection of the most sensitive bits of data.
You can have in place retention policies that involve deleting most of the data that you do collect after a period of time.
And you can salt your password hashes with self-documenting plaintext tags, so that anybody who knows how to crack your passwords must know how to contact your organization:
