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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...