#cryptomeanscryptography — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/

Every time Jenn Psaki said “Crypto” tonight, @KNS said, “Cryptocurrency!” Or “Crypto means Cryptography!”

#keeper #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

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/

#cryptography #cryptocurrency #cryptomeanscryptography

Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.

#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.

#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.

#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.

#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

Another backdoor law has failed. This time in Florida. They’ll keep coming.

#cryptowars #encryption #backdoors #laws #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/

Another good outcome in the UK’s lunacy case against Apple:

#technology #encryption
#nobackdoors #cryptomeanscryptography

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/uk-demand-for-apple-backdoor-should-not-be-heard-in-secret-says-court/

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

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption

Wow, Apple is really fighting this.

#technology #encryption #cryptomeanscryptography

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/apple-appeals-uks-secret-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-encrypted-user-data/

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

Crypto Wars 2.0 : The Empire Strikes Back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/

#cryptomeanscryptography #cryptography

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

#pqc #cybersecurity #cryptography #cryptomeanscryptography

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.

#cryptography #cryptomeanscryptography #deepfake

Big win in the UK for Crypto Wars 2.0. Don’t think this will end the attacks on cryptography.

#cryptomeanscryptography

https://apple.news/AP_EUVmIQTTC7_dTudBlVXw

Red Team Blues is super fun so far @pluralistic thanks for this #CryptoMeansCryptography #PoorLighting #RedTeamBlues

Red Team Blues is super fun so far @pluralistic thanks for this #CryptoMeansCryptography #PoorLighting #RedTeamBlues

Red Team Blues is super fun so far @pluralistic thanks for this #CryptoMeansCryptography #PoorLighting #RedTeamBlues

Red Team Blues is super fun so far @pluralistic thanks for this #CryptoMeansCryptography #PoorLighting #RedTeamBlues

All my apes gone

#sign #NYC #WashTrading #NFTs #CryptoMeansCryptography

uh-oh, grad den ersten spam per DM im fediverse erhalten.

ist natürlich ein "crypto"-scam.

#spam #CryptoMeansCryptography

@molly0xfff before anyone wastes half an hour of their time: he doesn't actually talk about crypto at all. it's only about cryptocurrency scams, with barely any technical details about them. #cryptomeanscryptography

They’re still trying to ban #cryptography

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

#backdoors #ukpoli #signal #CryptoMeansCryptography #GameTheory #censorship #surveillance #FourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse

They’re still trying to ban #cryptography

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

#backdoors #ukpoli #signal #CryptoMeansCryptography #GameTheory #censorship #surveillance #FourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse

They’re still trying to ban #cryptography

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

#backdoors #ukpoli #signal #CryptoMeansCryptography #GameTheory #censorship #surveillance #FourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse

They’re still trying to ban #cryptography

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

#backdoors #ukpoli #signal #CryptoMeansCryptography #GameTheory #censorship #surveillance #FourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse

They’re still trying to ban #cryptography

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

#backdoors #ukpoli #signal #CryptoMeansCryptography #GameTheory #censorship #surveillance #FourHorsemenOfTheInfocalypse

I hope every cryptocurrency company goes to zero value. I hope every cryptocurrency goes to zero value. Completely wiped out. If you're invested in one, I don't wish you harm, I wish you to exit your position. #cryptocurrency #cryptomeanscryptography

The strange story of “Extended Random”

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/12/19/the-strange-story-of-extended-random/

Or how the NSA -surprise!- covertly weakened #crypto...

Fascinatingly, the person who introduced this is now "Director, AWS applied crypto" at #Amazon!

Surprise, surprise!

https://nitter.fdn.fr/matthew_d_green/status/1357142492626509824

#CryptoMeansCryptography
#NSAmeansNationalScammingAgency #AmazonMeansCops

Hack Sémantique/Mental #423

Les spéculateurs zélés des crypto-monnaies appelent leurs actifs/obsessions "crypto".

C'est trompeur, car "#crypto" signifie généralement "#cryptographie", une science utile ! Cela porte à confusion, en associant la cryptographie au jeu spéculatif de quelques privilégiés.

Pour équilibrer cela, j'ai décidé de ne qualifier les "crypto-monnaies" que de "monnaies", afin de souligner leur nature monétaire/financière.

Les mots sont importants.

#CryptoMeansCryptography

Language/Mental Hack #423

Zealot speculators of crypto-currencies like to call their assets/obsessions "crypto".

It is misleading, as "#crypto" usually means "#cryptography", a useful science! It therefore brings confusion, associating cryptography with the speculative gambling of a few privileged people.

I decided that to balance that, i would only refer to "crypto-currencies" as "currencies", in order to emphasize their monetary/financial nature.

Words matter.

#CryptoMeansCryptography