Deirdre Connolly¹

@durumcrustulum@ioc.exchange
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🜗 🝒 🝲 crypto as in 'cryptography' 🝳 🝡 🜖

¹isogenist, co-host SCWpod

Google's utter failure to turn Beyondcorp into a product has led to some absolute fuckery in the market
Collaboration, competition, and community are key to exploring a variety of paths to post-quantum cryptographic resilience, @durumcrustulum explains on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podcast-episode-cryptography-makes-post-quantum-leap
Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchanges,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Preparing for post-quantum cryptography is and isn’t like fixing the Y2K bug, @durumcrustulum explains on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podcast-episode-cryptography-makes-post-quantum-leap
Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchanges,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
I'm still going to have to spend a bunch of time internalising the borrow checker but overall I'd say I'm pretty strongly into this? I successfully glued together code from two separate things to make exactly what I wanted and I appreciate that I'm at a very different point in my career but it's coming together faster than when I learned C uh gosh 25 years ago, but also than when I learned Go 10 years ago
One week with Rust and C looks weird to me now
NEW on “How to Fix the Internet” - @durumcrustulum joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley to discuss how post-quantum cryptography can shore up existing protections but also help us find entirely new methods of securing our information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podcast-episode-cryptography-makes-post-quantum-leap
Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchanges,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

⚛️ 🇪🇺 The EU Quantum Strategy has a nice table listing technology platforms of players developing quantum computing.

Superconducting qubits remains the most common approach amongst players.

Great and bold roadmap (outside of the QKD part), hope the players will be able to execute:
”By 2035, Europe aims to become the first continent to reach a scale of thousands of error-corrected qubits per platform, a threshold considered necessary to solve real-world problems.”

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/quantum-europe-strategy

Get you a language that's as opinionated as your ideal partner
The biggest part of this so far has been that basically every other language I've learned since I learned C has let me basically write C in that language and Rust is just telling me to fuck off with that shit and I do admire that it's a language that has strong internalised boundaries

@fj That's better than when my daughter asked it how to create a poll on Whatsapp. Which the app said "is not possible - create multiple messages with the dates you propse, and then people can thumbs-up or thumbs-down the dates".

She found the poll button after some searching by her own...