A little good news to share! And we're still hiring: * Offensive Security Engineer: offsec.calif.io * Software Engineer: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

I like math and history, so my fav pastime is history of math. I've tried to retrace the development of the group law on elliptic curves. But most old papers were written in French or German, not English. TIL that I can ask LLM to translate these papers. It works very well!

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Sakura and crypto, what more one could ask for

It's me wearing my hacker hat lol

Wow. I've seen many compress-then-encrypt backup schemes, which I always thought is vulnerable to CRIME but should be hard to exploit due to a stupid assumption that it should be hard to force the target to perform repeated backups.

Some auditor was desperate :) research.nccgroup.com/2022/1…

We stayed for half an hour more, with me doing an impromptu AMA. Several people asked to take a picture with me, I happily complied. One of them was Tran Bang, who was sitting in the right corner of this photo.

TIL: GCHQ released a quantum attack on their own lattice-based cryptosystem.

Phong on NIST PQC standards Fun fact: he's a brother in law of Suboi :-p