cryptography

This article discusses methods to recover the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes, potentially highlighting security vulnerabilities in the identification system.

Signal introduces zero-knowledge proofs to allow user registration without requiring a phone number, enhancing privacy and security.

The article describes a new implementation of the Falcon signature scheme that replaces floating-point arithmetic with fixed-point arithmetic, enhancing security and efficiency as presented in a CRYPTO 2026 paper.

The article introduces an open-source project called Proof of Capture, which uses steganography and a cryptographic chip to prove photos are camera-captured, offering an alternative to Apple's Reference Image feature.

Researchers from Cognition used the AI agent Devin to factor RSA-260, setting a new record in the RSA Factoring Challenge and demonstrating the potential of autonomous software engineering in cryptographic research.

A retrospective on the ten-year history of rustls, a Rust-based TLS library, covering its origins, development milestones, and future directions.

A tool that preprocesses polynomial coefficients to enable faster evaluation, reducing the number of multiplications needed. Users can interactively preprocess polynomials for applications in cryptography and function approximation.

This paper evaluates the usability of PGP 5.0, finding that most users couldn't successfully encrypt emails, arguing that security interfaces need specialized design standards.

The author factored 512-bit RSA keys from a defunct Certificate Authority shipped in Netscape browsers in the 90s, demonstrating the weakness of old cryptographic standards.

This paper tests whether large language models can maintain exact state across long sequences of dependent tool calls by having them compute MD5 hashes step by step. The study demonstrates that with proper context and voting mechanisms, LLMs can achieve high success rates in such exact, multi-step procedures.

Vals AI claims that their Fable 5.1 AI model assisted in solving a 373-year-old cipher that had remained unsolved for centuries.

Paul Millr announced the addition of interactive demos to the noble cryptography homepage, highlighting its high-security, audited cryptographic libraries for JavaScript/TypeScript developers.

This article exposes critical vulnerabilities in C2PA camera technology on Android, demonstrating that root exploits and hardware attacks can bypass its cryptographic signing, rendering it ineffective against AI forgeries.

HSIP is a security tool built with Claude Code that uses cryptographic signatures for identity verification and logs AI agent decisions, providing an unalterable audit trail as a locally running Rust binary with no cloud dependency.

This paper proposes a zero-knowledge proof system for Wasta, with applications in Lebanon to improve privacy and accountability in social and bureaucratic contexts.

The article argues that Zero-Knowledge Proofs are not an ideal solution for age verification, highlighting risks such as privacy breaches and centralization of internet access control.

Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack that enables the creation of decentralized, sovereign mesh networks with strong encryption and no central control, allowing for resilient and private communications.

Google has published a paper revealing that quantum computers could break blockchain encryption with fewer resources than expected, posing a significant threat to cryptocurrencies and highlighting the need for post-quantum cryptography.

This article discusses Xorshift generators, a type of fast pseudorandom number generator used in computational applications.

The article discusses concerns that AI could make software so secure that law enforcement loses surveillance capabilities, leading to a 'going dark' scenario with implications for security and privacy.