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Sophie Schmieg
SchmiegSophie
Random Saturday morning thought: Naive HKDF-AES-CTR-HMAC-SHA256 is not a committing AEAD scheme.(Thread) First, what is a committing AEAD? Getting a valid ciphertext in any AEAD scheme famously proves that the
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Access Now
accessnow
1/ The EU Council is preparing a resolution considering “solutions” for authorities to access encrypted data including communications. Read this thread to understand why #encryption matters to protect people’s privacy
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Paul Chou
paul_l_chou
Without commenting on the veracity of their "findings"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-07/a-swiss-company-says-it-found-weakness-that-imperils-encryptionThis has always been the existential nightmare for me about cr
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iang
iang_fc
ORF (media) in Austria report that 5 eyes Intelligence Community have convinced EU Council to secretly resolve for a total EU backdoor on end-to-end encryption.(in German) https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/Draft Resolution:https://files.or
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Cybergibbons
cybergibbons
Interesting how the security community seems to have changed what they are saying about voting machines."Taking it apart isn't hacking it"No. But we all know that issues were found. Claiming
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Stefan Soesanto
iiyonite
For all those reporting on the Council document supposedly "banning end-to-end encryption.This is nonsense. There is no e2e ban. The Council discussion has been ongoing for months if not years.
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Matthew Green
matthew_d_green
So the resolution explicitly calls for gaining “targeted access to encrypted data”, but we’re going to say that’s not a “backdoor in encryption”. Because we say things. Sorry, @TechCrunch. The
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Kim Zetter
KimZetter
Per briefing today on SolarWinds hack, @RonWyden says IRS was not compromised or taxpayer data affected. However, hack of Treasury Department "appears to be significant." Treasury breach began in July,
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Every time the US has a change of administration, @EFF staffers - lawyers, policy analysts, activists - create a "transition memo": a series of one-page briefings on the tech policy
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Alex Stamos
alexstamos
Lots of DC folks are substituting really muscular language ("Act of War") for an understanding of all of the hard complexities raised by the SVR operation, and it's not helping.https://www.axios.com/solarflares-russia-hack-age
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Marnanel Thurman 🟨🟥 Black Lives Matter
marnanel
This is a song called Alice’s Protocol. But Alice’s Protocol isn’t the name of the protocol: that’s just the name of the song. That’s why I called the song Alice’s
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zooko
zooko
Privacy technology (such as Zcash) doesn't *just* protect Americans from their own government (in accordance with quintessentially American values such the Fourth Amendment). Perhaps more importantly, it protects Americans from
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AntifaWatch
AntifaWatch2
Prediction- There's going to be a Internet "Patriot Act" passed early on in the Biden administration targeting encryption (especially e2e), online privacy, and "extremism" (as defined by the SPLC)It will
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John Scott-Railton
jsrailton
BREAKING: Zoom settles with FTC, gets consent order prohibiting misrepresentations, agreeing to mandated information security program, 3rd party audits... Quick THREAD https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1923167zoomacco2.pdf 2.
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Rachel Coldicutt
rachelcoldicutt
Sounds like the Home Affairs Select Committee on Online Harms was pretty crunchyhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/21/facebook-admits-encryption-will-harm-efforts-to-prevent-child-exploitation Catching up now. Yvette Cooper tak
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Mattia Epifani
mattiaep
My point of view:1) @signalapp end-to-end encryption is not broken and works great2) @Cellebrite didn’t claimed they are able to break the end-to-end encryption. They said they are able to
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