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Masks as cryptosystems: A thread. 1/11

Very sophisticated attack against the RADIUS protocol that uses flaws in the protocol as well as a novel variant of the MD5 chosen prefix collision. Cryptography from the 90s never goes away! blastradius.fail/attack-details

New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere arstechnica.com/?p=2035809

At least there is now a song about how friends don't let friends use MD5: suno.com/song/6f749152-… #BlastRADIUS #vulnerability

For those interested in #scholarlypublishing and #TeXLaTeX , I've released most of the system we use for publishing cic.iacr.org as open source now. See github.com/IACR/latex-sub…

[Final versions of FIPS 203,204,205, I guess] "set for release the week of Aug. 12, according to people familiar with the matter" nextgov.com/emerging-tech/…

Final versions of the NIST PQC Standards are out! :) FIPS 203 ML-KEM (Kyber): nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/fips/… FIPS 204 ML-DSA (Dilithium): nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/fips/… FIPS 205 SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+): nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/fips/…

A more EICAR-like CRC collision in pure ASCII: "DpVRUX<=EICAR CRC collision? Use Shake128/Kangaroo12/Blake3 instead!" Hash recommendations from Marc Stevens

Here is an interesting read on the Enigma and other historical cryptographic machines: nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/pdf/naw… It's written by Stijn Maatje.