About Sophie

Cybersecurity, assurance, technology, identity, and life in my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

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Category: encryption

  • Why Your Document Vanishes but Your Secrets Won’t Die

    The Asymmetry of Digital Loss & The Tyranny of Tiny Secrets There is a familiar little cruelty in computing: the thing you need is always easy to lose, while the thing you desperately need to delete seems almost impossible to destroy with certainty. The document you were working on yesterday has vanished into some folder,…

  • 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…