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  1. BREAKING! GnuPG introduces quantum-resistant ML-KEM (Kyber) as encryption algorithm!

    lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnup

    This is great news! However, as I've been saying for a while, we should stop considering Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later as the only thing to be immediately concerned about. The problem of signatures (Trust-Now-Forge-Later) is wrongly assumed to be way less urgent, but the reality is that rolling out a certificate migration will be extremely painful, and quantum attacks against signatures will be stealthy and of difficult attribution initially. Especially for a project like GnuPG, it's extremely important to adopt quantum-resistant signatures ASAP.

    #crypto #cryptography #PGP #GnuPG #quantum #security #privacy #cypherpunk

  2. VeraCrypt to stop developing Windows application due to Microsoft revoking their driver signing certificate:

    sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/di

    Sorry to hear about this turn of events, but it was pretty much to be expected given the way the world is turning, and Microsoft being Microsoft.

    Switch to Linux if you can, and come give Shufflecake a try ;)

    #veracrypt #truecrypt #privacy #cryptography #plausibledeniability #shufflecake #microsof #windows #enshittification #surveillance #cypherpunk

  3. VeraCrypt to stop developing Windows application due to Microsoft revoking their driver signing certificate:

    sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/di

    We are sorry to hear this turn of events and we wish VeraCrypt team all the best. For us, Windows was never an option.

  4. 💥🍾🎆 Happy New Year 2026 From Shufflecake - 2025 in Review 🎆🍾💥

    2025 was a good year for our little project!

    We focused mostly on improving the performance and correctness of Shufflecake Lite, and the results are *impressive*! We reached, and in some test case *exceeded* the I/O throughput of dm-crypt, which is the *golden standard* for encrypted filesystems on Linux!

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  5. Blocknet DEX explained:
    - fully open-source fully decentralized-distributed permissionless peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange.

    #Blocknet #BlockDX #crypto #DEX #HTLC #atomicswap #Debian #Ubuntu #Linux #cypherpunk

    #BLOCK #BTC #BCH #LTC #DOGE #DASH #PIVX #PART #PKOIN #XVG

  6. @shufflecake Elia and I have bee quite under the water recently, but we've been quietly working to this new release - mostly Elia, TBH :)

    In addition to the long due test units and dev guide, we worked a lot on FLUSH and FUA requests for block device I/O. We got SCARY performances, very close and at times beyond dm-crypt in fio tests!

    I think it is safe to say that performances won't be our priority from now on (at least for the Lite scheme), and we can keep focusing on new features and the roadmap to our Holy Grail: a fully hidden Linux OS!

    #shufflecake #crypto #cryptography #privacy #veracrypt #plausibledeniability #linux #cypherpunk

  7. 💥 ❤️ 📣 NEW RELEASE 📣 ❤️ 💥 v0.5.6 brings a TON of good news! First of all, it's *blazing fast*: we implemented better handling of I/O requests, and now we have performances that in many scenarios *exceed* those of bare dm-crypt/LUKS! We also added a proper test suite and a developer guide, and we fixed a bunch of bugs, in particular restoring full crash consistency for the Lite scheme!