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We have lost the freedom to talk to our cyber neighbors privately. Yes, we can send an encrypted message, but by this we raise a flag: Hey adversaries! -- Look who I am talking to, and how much, and how frequently. And yes I have the key to decrypt it, but I would not share it with you unless you threaten me or coerce me -- that is not privacy. HIPS is! Imagine that you can talk to any resident of cyberspace, without leaving a trace, without even raising suspicion that this c

The Department of War just announced that it phases out pre-shared keys (PSK) quantum resistant cryptography (PQC). On its face this is a prudent policy decision. Pre shared keys live long, and the longer a key lives the greater the chance for it to be compromised. Alas, this bold policy decision leaves the DoW to rely either on unproven NIST or NSA sanctioned key generation algorithms, or on shared qbits. The first relies on an adversary who is not smarter than expected, and

The quintic polynomial cannot be solved -- as Abel and Galois have shown. Which only means that there are instances of a five degree polynomial for which no formula offers a solution. Which in practice means that there are countless instances of the quintic, subscribing to a particular class, for which there is a solving formula. The same for NIST PQC ciphers -- even if they had (which they don't) a proof of no general solution, they are all plagued by the reality that key

We live in cyberspace, and thereby expose our whims, proclivities, secret desires, ambitions, love, hatred, emotions. Modern AI sees us...

Elastic encryption ciphertexts deter cryptanalysts from cracking them. New feature in the on going cyber war. An elastic ciphertext...

The nightmare of every cryptograher is an attacker using. surprise mathmatical insight to crack the code. The NIST-PQC cryptographer is...

Abstract:  Artificial Intelligence will associate a ciphertext with a set of plausible plaintext message candidates for the one message...

Life in cyberspace shapes up as a paradise for the powers that be, blanketing us the people with invasive surveillance, administered...

Mathematical Insight is No Longer an Advantage Abstract: Throughout its stormy history and remarkable track record, cryptography was...

Plain brute force cryptanalysis is destined to check on average half the possible secret keys that guard any cyber secret, including...

To say that cryptography today is constituted on arrogance and hubris, is to risk being summarily dismissed by anyone who counts. And it...

Privacy is back in the hands of the user, dial it up as high as you please! Freedom Wins!

In the 70s of the last century a thousand years old premise of cryptography was challenged. The idea of using the same key to encrypt a...

It has shaken every other field. It is coming for you (or rather for us, I should say). It is opening a new line of attack, one we have...

US Intelligence was stymied by Stalin's spies who used an American super cipher, which we dismissed... It was the notorious Vernam...

In the current crypto paradigm a single secret key transforms a plaintext into a ciphertext and vice versa, or at most a different key is...

Silent Reading of Credit Card Spending History of High Level people is Sold to their Rivals -- a new line of Industrial Surveillance....

It was a huge NSA led cyber investment to massively scan world-wide communication to zero in on encrypted traffic to be further looked...

Hacked drones smashing into windows, bumping into people, peeping through sunlight windows... this is the troubling scenario for the not...

There are a whopping 10 to the power of 31 virus particles in the biosphere, which corresponds to about 100 million viruses for each cell...