David Adrian

@dadrian

former @googlechrome security. host @scwpod. cofounded @censysio. cryptography, startups. “ruthlessly practical". DJB says I’m an NSA plant. Go blue!

Washington, DC

Pinned
David Adrian
@dadrian
Mar 23, 2024
With Real World Cryptography coming up next week, I wanted to take an opportunity to point out that our current post-quantum cryptographic primitives are not suitable for the web
dadrian.io
Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big.
Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Luckily, they don’t exist yet. The Internet-wide transition to...
3
David Adrian
@dadrian
Sep 3
The problem with academia is that it was GOOD when I was in my 20s and a grad student, and is BAD now that I am older and in industry
David Adrian
@dadrian
Sep 2
As we all know, there are four networking layers: L2, L3, L4, and L7. I think this is obvious to everybody.
1
David Adrian
@dadrian
Sep 2
Seems like the ISO processes were subverted to force weak non-NIST cryptography that didn't go through a strict multi-national competition as part of standardization
David Adrian
@dadrian
Aug 28
Given how bad the key recovery attack looks, we have to ask—was Classic McEliece an op to insert a backdoor into PQC? Is Classic McEliece author Dan Bernstein an NSA plant? Concerning. eprint.iacr.org/2026/1630
2
David Adrian
@dadrian
Sep 1
wow, the tv show “the wire” is very good, how come nobody talks about this?
11