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| | keymaterial.net

One weird hobby of mine is reasonable properties of cryptographic schemes that nobody promised they do or don't have. Whether that's invisible salamanders or binding through shared secrets, anything that isn't just boring IND-CCA2 or existential unforgeability is just delightful material to construct vulnerabilities with. Normally, with a signature scheme, you have the public key...
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Digital Signatures The digital signature (sometimes called an electronic signature) isn't a literal digitalized signature. In layman's terms, it is a procedure that guarantees the integrity and the authenticity of digital documents and messages. The name of a digital signature comes from the analogy with the handwritten signature of a paper document. Everyone knows that there is a lot of paperwork in the world of business. And, where there is paperwork, there is a lot of validation, approvals, etc.
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[AI summary] An email exchange detailing a technical proposal to implement a secure Merkle-Winternitz-HORS signature scheme for the Tahoe-LAFS distributed file system, outlining improvements in signature size, security against quantum attacks, and stateless performance optimizations.
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An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks.
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