(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
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In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption algorithms.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto industry to prepare a "bunker mode" for a scenario where AI-powered math could break wallet signature schemes within months.
On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024). Learn what this means for you, and how RFC 8509 trust anchor sentinels allow you to test whether your DNS resolver is ready for the rollover.
Now AI is getting to the point older codes and ciphers are getting broken we should think that “obscurity” is not the right word to use for codes and ciphers.
The most impressive hacking stunt from cinema history comes from Kung Fury (2015), in which Hackerman hacks time itself. He uses this power to correct historic misdeeds. But what would I do with the ability to hack time?
Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/10/02/sequencehash-multihashing-for-the-rest-of-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933587 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Cloudflare Workers is adding opt-in support for post-quantum-resistant algorithms ML-KEM and ML-DSA. You can try it today.
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
ArsTechnica is reporting on a “new” attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring. First, this attack isn’t new. The original research is from 2007. What is new is the implementation. Second, it is a forgery attack. It allows an attacker to forge digital signatures.
Apple has published the design of Reference Image, an iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that signs pixel data at the sensor and develops it in Private Cloud Compute under an Apple signature.
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