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Software-engineering mathematician. Post-quantum cryptography @cloudflare

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RT @armfazh: Meet X-Wing and Prio3, the new citizens of #cloudflare CIRCL crypto library. #xwing #postquantumcrypto #prio3
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RT @6a6763: I think what's lost in the whole DeepSeek thing is how their team did low level optimizations of the NVIDIA hardware. My very f…
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RT @grittygrease: Alibaba’s new model is faster, cheaper and more effective than what has been published so far. “Premature optimization i…
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RT @TimCallan: In this episode we are joined by Dr. Michela Mosca. We discuss his pioneering work identifying the need for post-quantum cry…
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@johnso13475 @dallairedemers They’ll need to update. Bitcoin has time as it doesn’t suffer store-now/decrypt-later, but it looks like it will not be very easy and any PQ upgrade will have some performance tradeoff. (Eg. Fewer transactions per block)
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RT @hashbreaker: New blog post "As expensive as a plane flight: Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't…
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Coming soon to LE.
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And there is a part 3 now.
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UOV is one of the promising post-quantum signatures schemes in the NIST onramp. Google's Sophie Schmieg dug in and wrote two nice blog posts on them.
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@quantum_safe @claucece @billatnapier @WardBeullens @hashbreaker @bo_yin It depends. (tm) Rainbow definitely isn't. UOV probably is. Check out Sophie's first blog post.
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And for the other candidates and broader context, check out our earlier blog post.
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RT @SimmerVigor: We've been working on h3i over the last year, replacing our hodgepodge of test tools and catching some gnarly edge cases i…
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RT @ekr____: Took some time off, but now I'm back. Just in time for New Year's, 8000+ words on why it's hard to trust the software you're u…
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RT @mholt6: Sorry to disappoint, but I don't know if we'll be doing this after all. It would require all developers and those who build fro…
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@mjos_crypto Congrats!
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