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Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

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Category: encryption

  • How will Quantum Vulnerable Encryption (QVE) unravel?

    I’ve written a little recently (and less recently!) about Post Quantum Encryption and how action is needed NOW. How the timeline of QVE’s unravelling and collapse will take place is almost impossible to say. But we might usefully draw some lessons from the collapse in confidence of the MD5 hashing algorithm. Let’s look at the…

  • Post Quantum Worries

    Look, I don’t like to be the bearer of  bad tidings, but hardly anyone I have talked to is doing anything about it at all, claiming it isn’t needed yet. Or as I like to term it “Don’t wait, procrastinate NOW”. TL;DR I wrote about it over a year ago, here. It isn’t a long…