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@ncoca@social.coop
2026-03-10 06:17:33

This is a new one. Got a #press release, tried to download the attached #report, and got this message.
"Unsupported #PDF viewer" I assume means every PDF viewer available on

Screenshot of a warning that says " This document uses encryption powered by Microsoft Information Protection. You're seeing this page either because you are not authorized to view its content or are using an unsupported PDF viewer. To open this document, use a PDF viewer that supports Azure Rights Management or contact the document owner to grant you permissions."
@stf@chaos.social
2026-05-12 12:37:23

#eurocrypt just happened, which reminds me of the eurocrypt 35 years ago held in budapest, which an #NSA cryptologist was attending and giving a scorching #report in the internal cryptolog newsletter of the nsa:

What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? Recently-declassified document provides clues
Brighten Godfrey was one of my officemates when we were grad students at Berkeley.  He’s now a highly-successful computer networking professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, …