Links tagged “cryptography”
9 links, newest first.
anthropic.com
A model finds an improved attack on the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme, and a novel approach against reduced-round AES.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Matthew Green weighs the key-recovery attack on HAWK and the reduced-round AES result against what each actually implies for deployed cryptography.
mathstodon.xyz
LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys - a security regression that shipped in Linux 6.9 and went unnoticed.
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia's article on the Merkle tree, a hash tree that lets a large dataset be verified branch by branch, as used in Git, Bitcoin and BitTorrent.
igvita.com
Builds a blockchain from first principles, showing how digital signatures, proof of work and the longest-chain rule settle transactions without a trusted third party.
python-jose.readthedocs.org
Documentation for python-jose, a Python implementation of the JOSE suite: JSON Web Signature, Encryption, Key and Algorithms.
z.cash
Homepage of Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency offering shielded peer-to-peer transactions, with guides to wallets, exchanges and the network.
ybrikman.com
An explanation of how Bitcoin works, building up from everyday analogies before going into the technical detail of the protocol.
letsencrypt.org
Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority issuing free, automated TLS certificates for HTTPS.
