Natanael

joined 6 months ago
[–] Natanael 32 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Either you're a bank under strict regulations when you're handling that kind of money, or you have no business processing that kind of money. PayPal & co dodges most regulations due to technically not being a bank, but at that size they shouldn't be able to abuse loopholes.

[–] Natanael 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Find out who made it mandatory, then CC them on every error the bot makes ever

Bonus points if it make an "agentic" LLM 8 ball do the forwarding for you

[–] Natanael 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No nationalists of any kind, no fundamentalists

[–] Natanael 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a Swede, we speak English incredibly well on average and automatic translations are very obvious (they can't adapt expressions as well as human translators can, etc). It's very annoying when automatic translations are forced on or the default.

[–] Natanael 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In some places here in Sweden, restaurants with sidewalk tables have an extra "lane" for pedestrians installed in parallel over the side of the street, like a protected boardwalk

[–] Natanael 4 points 1 week ago

It tripped, so it became a revolution instead

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 week ago

Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you're buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you'll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.

[–] Natanael 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of those state sponsored channels have other distribution methods available. They're simply not getting access to youtube's megaphone now

[–] Natanael 8 points 1 week ago

This is the language that was used by countries not affected by war in WW2 to turn away jews that tried to escape.

[–] Natanael 2 points 1 week ago

How curious that my article is more recent than all of yours and include developments giving them more of what they asked for

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

iMessage will use SMS for 2 person conversations with Android, MMS for groups (and if your carrier disabled MMS it doesn't work IIRC)

1
The cryptography behind passkeys (blog.trailofbits.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Natanael to c/crypto
 

From here;

https://chaos.social/@dbrgn/114386333844571387

dbrgn@chaos.social - Here are a few interesting details about the maximally privacy-friendly protocol design:

  • Everything related to synchronization between devices is completely end-to-end encrypted
  • Message recipients do not know from which device a message was sent
  • The Mediator Server of a device group does not know the corresponding Threema ID
  • The Chat Server only sees the IP address of the Mediator Server, but not the IP address of the end devices
1
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Natanael to c/crypto
 

Announcement from here;

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/_HH9A70BwJ6vgEfT2iSTvCQFhZE/

Hi folks,

We recently published an initial specification for a hybrid, post-quantum, augmented PAKE protocol, called CPaceOQUAKE+, located here:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vos-cfrg-pqpake/

The motivation for this protocol can be roughly summarized as follows:

  • Post-quantum: None of the existing PAKE specifications are post-quantum. Rather than incrementally improve on PAKEs that are secure against standard adversaries, we felt it important to shift focus to post-quantum adversaries.
  • Augmented: Many PAKE deployments use augmented PAKEs (SRP and SPAKE2+, for example). A drop-in replacement for these use cases was therefore important.
  • Hybrid: CPaceOQUAKE+ is built on CPace and OQUAKE (which is specified in the document and based on the NoIC protocol in [1], and then composed with CPace using a variant of the combiner analyzed in [3]) as well as other standard building blocks (like ML-KEM). While CPace is well-understood, OQUAKE and the combiner itself are more new and thus warrant additional caution (from an implementation and analysis perspective). By making the primary protocol CPaceOQUAKE+ hybrid, we hedge against issues in the component pieces used in its construction and the maturity of their implementation(s).

This specification emerged from a number of relevant papers on the topic, including [1,2,3,4,5]. We are finishing security analysis of this protocol (and the core constituent parts) and hope to publish that soon.

We expect the shape and contents of this draft to change over time, especially as this community commences work on PQ PAKEs. We hope that by releasing this initial version we can get the conversation started on this important topic. IETF 123 is a little far out, but if folks would find it interesting, perhaps we can have an interim meeting of sorts to discuss PQ PAKEs and these specifications in the interim.

Best, Chris, on behalf of the editors

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/231
[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1621
[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1630
[4] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1400
[5] https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qm0220s

 

See also discussion here; https://reddit.com/comments/1jv572r

4
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Natanael to c/crypto
 

Cryptology ePrint Archive
Paper 2025/585
Adaptively-Secure Big-Key Identity-Based Encryption
Jeffrey Champion, The University of Texas at Austin
Brent Waters, The University of Texas at Austin, NTT Research
David J. Wu, The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract
Key-exfiltration attacks on cryptographic keys are a significant threat to computer security. One proposed defense against such attacks is big-key cryptography which seeks to make cryptographic secrets so large that it is infeasible for an adversary to exfiltrate the key (without being detected). However, this also introduces an inconvenience to the user who must now store the large key on all of their different devices. The work of Döttling, Garg, Sekar and Wang (TCC 2022) introduces an elegant solution to this problem in the form of big-key identity-based encryption (IBE). Here, there is a large master secret key, but very short identity keys. The user can now store the large master secret key as her long-term key, and can provision each of her devices with short ephemeral identity keys (say, corresponding to the current date). In this way, the long-term secret key is protected by conventional big-key cryptography, while the user only needs to distribute short ephemeral keys to their different devices. Döttling et al. introduce and construct big-key IBE from standard pairing-based assumptions. However, their scheme only satisfies selective security where the adversary has to declare its challenge set of identities at the beginning of the security game. The more natural notion of security is adaptive security where the user can adaptively choose which identities it wants to challenge after seeing the public parameters (and part of the master secret key).

In this work, we give the first adaptively-secure construction of big-key IBE from standard cryptographic assumptions. Our first construction relies on indistinguishability obfuscation (and one-way functions), while our second construction relies on witness encryption for NP together with standard pairing-based assumptions (i.e., the SXDH assumption). To prove adaptive security, we show how to implement the classic dual-system methodology with indistinguishability obfuscation as well as witness encryption.

 

Abstract;

In this paper, we present the first practical algorithm to compute an effective group action of the class group of any imaginary quadratic order O on a set of supersingular elliptic curves primitively oriented by O. Effective means that we can act with any element of the class group directly, and are not restricted to acting by products of ideals of small norm, as for instance in CSIDH. Such restricted effective group actions often hamper cryptographic constructions, e.g. in signature or MPC protocols.

Our algorithm is a refinement of the Clapoti approach by Page and Robert, and uses 4-dimensional isogenies. As such, it runs in polynomial time, does not require the computation of the structure of the class group, nor expensive lattice reductions, and our refinements allows it to be instantiated with the orientation given by the Frobenius endomorphism. This makes the algorithm practical even at security levels as high as CSIDH-4096. Our implementation in SageMath takes 1.5s to compute a group action at the CSIDH-512 security level, 21s at CSIDH-2048 level and around 2 minutes at the CSIDH-4096 level. This marks the first instantiation of an effective cryptographic group action at such high security levels. For comparison, the recent KLaPoTi approach requires around 200s at the CSIDH-512 level in SageMath and 2.5s in Rust.

See also; https://bsky.app/profile/andreavbasso.bsky.social/post/3ljkh4wmnqk2c

0
🕵️‍♂️ (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Natanael to c/crypto
 
33
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Natanael to c/crypto
view more: ‹ prev next ›