Nick Sullivan

@grittygrease

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Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Aug 27
A big deal!
Royal Hansen
@royalhansen
Aug 27
A huge step for mobile privacy: Android 17 is the first major mobile OS to enable broad Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support. Thanks to @Jigsaw for helping us hide your digital destinations from network snoops! Read more: medium.com/jigsaw/closing…
Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Aug 21
The IAB is running a workshop on deploying post-quantum authentication, the harder, lagging half: certs, HSMs, identity, firmware & software signing. Prague, Oct 11–12, co-located with OpenSSL. CFP + how to submit (by Sep 4): datatracker.ietf.org/group/pqws/abo…
Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Jul 29
One thing I’ve learned from being part of this space for a while is that different communities have different norms and expectations. Bringing people together exposes mismatches, but also enables beautiful opportunities for discovery and invention if humility and understanding is
Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Apr 10, 2022
Replying to @bascule
I’ll go a step further. The proliferation and standardization of curve 25519 and derivatives, including RFC 7748, was a mistake.
Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Jul 24
If you weren't aware, I had a small part in helping design TLS 1.3 back in the day. Today, I presented some new work at the TLS working group meeting in Vienna to upgrade its the key schedule from SHA-2 (the workhorse) to Keccak, the algorithm behind SHA-3. This isn't because
Nick Sullivan
@grittygrease
Jul 11
The Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG, part of the @inretafo), is holding a last call for two documents on hybrid KEMs: a mechanism that lets you safely combine post-quantum and classical algorithms into a single construction. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/…