David Adrian

@dadrian

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

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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
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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...
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
David Adrian
@dadrian
Aug 26
We had fellow Michigan Man @ChrisPeikert on the podcast. Since the last time Peikert was on, Michigan won a national championship in both football and basketball. This is the new bar for repeat guests.
Security Cryptography Whatever
@SCWpod
Aug 26
NEW EPISODE! Lattices! New results in the closest vector problem & possible poly-time quantum attack against the dihedral coset problem that made everyone freak out for about a week; ALSO there's a distinguisher attack against Classic McEliece 😱 youtu.be/7_Db0LXQrk0
David Adrian
@dadrian
Aug 25
I asked an unreleased model to fix bugs in OpenSSL and it killed itself.
David Adrian
@dadrian
Aug 25
The Regulatory Capture Company of San Francisco