Ross Anderson
April 1 2024Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge.
I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008,...
Read moreApple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
February 26 2024Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022.
There’s a lot...
Read moreImproving the Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Public-Key Algorithms
February 14 2024The winner of the Best Paper Award at Crypto this year was a significant improvement to lattice-based cryptanalysis. This is important, because a bunch of NIST’s post-quantum options base their...
Read moreDavid Kahn
February 3 2024David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field. He...
Read moreImproving Shor’s Algorithm
January 5 2024We don’t have a useful quantum computer yet, but we do have quantum algorithms. Shor’s algorithm has the potential to factor large numbers faster than otherwise possible, which—if the...
Read moreSecurity Analysis of Threema
January 19 2023A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema.
We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than...
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Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
January 4 2023A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously....
Read moreCharles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
November 29 2022Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years:
In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole words are encrypted with...
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Breaking the Zeppelin Ransomware Encryption Scheme
November 21 2022Brian Krebs writes about how the Zeppelin ransomware encryption scheme was broken:
The researchers said their break came when they understood that while Zeppelin used three different types of...
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