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@stf@chaos.social
2025-11-30 13:26:53

in all this merry djb bashing 1 thing i didn't hear from the people representing the interests of the #nsa, is why is it important that when the nsa wants 2 use naked pqkems, they have to be #IETF standardized? why do we need a naked

@stf@chaos.social
2025-11-26 17:06:26

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

9. BOOK REVIEW: APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY [censored] Reviewer Applied Cryptography, for those who don't read the internet news, is a book written by Bruce Schneier last year. According to the jacket, Schneier is a data security expert with a master's degree in computer science. According to his followers, he is a hero who has finally brought together the loose threads of cryptography for the general public to understand. Schneier has gathered academic research, internet gossip, and everything he co…
Issue 1 TALES OF THE KRYPT Page 14 of 16 oc ID: 6823780 Playing loose with the facts is a serious problem with Schneier. For example in discussing a small-exponent attack on RSA, he says "an attack by Michael Wiener will recover e when e is up to one quarter the size of n." Actually, Wiener's attack recovers the secret exponent d when e has less than one quarter as many bits as n, which is a quite different statement. Or: "The quadratic sieve is the fastest known . algorithm for factoring numb…