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PQ Crypto - 50 cracked up Qbits online within 1 year, NIST PQC Competition, etc
by grarpamp 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ibm-17-qubit-quantum-processor-c… https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/ IBM Fronts at least 17 Q-bits to the World's Private Buyers, 50 rough Q-Bits by Many Entities within 1 Year http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/post-quantum-crypto/ The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now accepting submissions for quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2017. Please see the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization menu at left for the complete submission requirements and evaluation criteria. In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers – machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult or intractable for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will be able to break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. This would seriously compromise the confidentiality and integrity of digital communications on the Internet and elsewhere. The goal of post-quantum cryptography (also called quantum-resistant cryptography) is to develop cryptographic systems that are secure against both quantum and classical computers, and can interoperate with existing communications protocols and networks. The question of when a large-scale quantum computer will be built is a complicated one. While in the past it was less clear that large quantum computers are a physical possibility, many scientists now believe it to be merely a significant engineering challenge. Some engineers even predict that within the next twenty or so years sufficiently large quantum computers will be built to break essentially all public key schemes currently in use. Historically, it has taken almost two decades to deploy our modern public key cryptography infrastructure. Therefore, regardless of whether we can estimate the exact time of the arrival of the quantum computing era, we must begin now to prepare our information security systems to be able to resist quantum computing. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/424 Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2017/424 On Reliability, Reconciliation, and Error Correction in Ring-LWE Encryption Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen Abstract: We describe a new reconciliation method for Ring-LWE that has a significantly smaller failure rate than previous proposals while reducing ciphertext size and the amount of randomness required. It is based on a simple, deterministic variant of Peikert's reconciliation that works with our new ``safe bits'' selection and constant-time error correction techniques. The new method does not need randomized smoothing to achieve non-biased secrets. When used with the very efficient ``New Hope'' Ring-LWE parametrization we achieve a decryption failure rate well below 2−128 (compared to 2−60 of the original), making the scheme suitable for public key encryption in addition to key exchange protocols; the reconciliation approach saves about 40% in ciphertext size when compared to the common LP11 Ring-LWE encryption scheme. We perform a combinatorial failure analysis using full probability convolutions, leading to a precise understanding of decryption failure conditions on bit level. Even with additional implementation security and safety measures the new scheme is still essentially as fast as the New Hope but has slightly shorter messages. The new techniques have been instantiated and implemented as a Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) and public key encryption scheme designed to meet the requirements of NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography effort at very high security level. Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / Ring-LWE, Reconciliation, Post-Quantum Encryption, New Hope Date: received 16 May 2017 Contact author: mjos at iki fi https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/351 Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2017/351 Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein and Nadia Heninger and Paul Lou and Luke Valenta Abstract: This paper proposes RSA parameters for which (1) key generation, encryption, decryption, signing, and verification are feasible on today's computers while (2) all known attacks are infeasible, even assuming highly scalable quantum computers. As part of the performance analysis, this paper introduces a new algorithm to generate a batch of primes. As part of the attack analysis, this paper introduces a new quantum factorization algorithm that is often much faster than Shor's algorithm and much faster than pre-quantum factorization algorithms. Initial pqRSA implementation results are provided. Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / post-quantum cryptography, RSA scalability, Shor's algorithm, ECM, Grover's algorithm, Make RSA Great Again Original Publication (in the same form): PQCrypto 2017 Date: received 19 Apr 2017 Contact author: authorcontact-pqrsa at box cr yp to

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[WAR] Theresa May: "Bombs don’t kill people, memes kill people"
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Yeah yeah, bombs don't kill people, memes kill people. You know, because "people bitching on Facebook are the root cause of terrorism, rather than a foreign policy which ships young men to Libya in order to fight with al-Qaeda and by extrapolation with NATO troops against the then secular government of Libya". Theresa May she save stupidity from the wrath of logic. Theresa May, the butcher of Logicya. Politicians: that perfidious breed of humans who shun dignity, logic and even sanity, for a few extra sjeckels in the coffers of their Military Industrial Banking Spying Corporation overlords. Besides, what's a few million dead brown children between Western politicians bombing for their (((banking overlords))) anyway? ** Theresa May is a Communist on free speech–Jeremy Corbyn a pragmatist about terrorism http://theduran.com/theresa-may-is-a-communist-on-free-speech-jeremy-corbyn… ------------------------------------------------------------ Is internet censorship Theresa May's Ceaușescu moment?

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IMSI catcher detection and mapping (via crowdsourcing)
by M373 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Some U-Washington researchers are working on a potentially very interesting project of using sensors and statistical analysis to identify where cell site simulators are being used, which could scale to city or larger size, providing a snapshot as well as ongoing dataset to ascertain patterns. One would need spatial and temporal density to maximize probability of capture given the ephemeral nature of deployed cell simulators. https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/ https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.pdf https://github.com/seaglass-project/seaglass

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British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide
by Georgi Guninski 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865 She said: "When we finally boarded the captain came out and told us their computer systems were down worldwide.

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BIP200 - Mandatory de-activation of forced segwit deployment
by Joshua 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Abstract This BIP supercedes BIP148 and outlines the methods and actions necessary to prevent unwanted network segmentation and forced isolation caused by non-consensual BIP148 and Segregated Witness deployment. The Bitcoin protocol was initially designed as a decentralized standard. Unfortunately BIP148 establishes and assigns significant standards-implementation authority to large and more influential commercial organizations and away from independent parties. The author of this proposal fully rejects BIP148 as being contrary to the spirit of Bitcoin and rejects the premise that overall Bitcoin consensus can be gained through a simple voting mechanism. BIP148 (UASF) additionally creates the scaffolding required for large influential groups to take ownership of the global Bitcoin protocol which is a significant departure from the original decentralized nature of Bitcoin. The presence of this scaffolding creates extraordinary risk of centralization within the Bitcoin community and must be resisted. This BIP takes a red-team-centric approach and proposes multiple legally acceptable covert and overt means to resist and eradicate BIP148 and SegWit from the global Bitcoin network in the event it is non-consensually activated. More details: https://gist.github.com/joshuayabut/0b4f58bd31cb3becf4630002acac884d Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.

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joke
by Marina Brown 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

What do you get when you cross a penis and a potato ? Answer (many): Donald Trump, Vlad Putin, Duterte, Assad In other words: a DickTater

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[WAR] Killary Clinton rightfully blames Obama for her election loss
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Surprising I know, and also absolutely rivetting to all I'm sure. Hillary Clinton, the Butcher of Lybia, is more intelligent than, as she calls them, American "low information voters", more superior to the DNC, and really really wants us all to know how much she needs more "Russia-gate" diversions to the investigations of her satanic pedophile child sacrifice cult and DNC murder of Seth Rich. So please, don't investigate or talk about those things, Russian hacking of the USA elections is what must dominate the TLA agency activities. Warning to all secret service, FBI, DIA and CIA personell: do NOT investigate the human sacrificing satanists; ONLY investigate the Russian hacking scandal since that's a certainty, a sure thing, a fait accomplitenecessity as they say in some Eastern European country... http://theduran.com/definitive-list-25-things-hillary-clinton-blames-electi… Definitive list of 25 excuses Hillary Clinton blames her election loss on

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RISK: A Film by Laura Poitras
by grarpamp 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021PuzHG_YA https://www.youtube.com/results?q=risk+poitras&sp=CAI%= infohash: 4D0FA67D82682390D7920E1930B02CB45B3CAB96

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[WAR] "It is easy to blame the dead for our own weakness"
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

In this interview, historian Milos Kovic (Serbia) speaks plainly re human nature, and our tendency to blame our fathers and grandfathers, other countries, the past, anyone and anything but acknowledge the weakness that we live within, perhaps that we try ever so futilely to hide from. Be the greatest you that you can be. Make only your loved ones proud, even if only in their hindsight of your life lived. Eat your frogs first. ** The future belongs to those who do not surrender http://theduran.com/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-do-not-surrender/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Compared to our ancestors, we are really distinguished by cowardice, fatalistic passivity and laziness. All this, however, can change quickly.

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There is only ONE God
by Dr. Elizabeth Wilson 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Christ is all forgiving, you just have to accept that he is the one true God and Jesus is his resurrected son. ~/liz

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