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

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Category: Secrets

  • 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…

  • [***NOT REDACTED***]

    Or “Redaction Failures”. There have been many high-profile redaction failures over the years[1]. So it may help to briefly classify[2] them into some different types. Context & Inference That last category is rarely talked about. After all, techies love technical failures or clever technical workarounds. Context & Inference is terribly boring in comparison – but…

  • 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…