Does anybody know why Ed25519 is not included in the recommended curves in ENISA's EUCC Guidelines on Cryptography?

Really @Apple what brilliant mind thought of putting these two “X” next to each other?

@BrownCSDept faculty member @vkemerlis and his Brown Secure Systems Lab have earned two honors at CCS 2025, a Top Reviewer Award and a Distinguished Artifact Award. Learn more at Brown CS News: cs.brown.edu/news/2025/11/26…

The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time. The world's first: WAYMO DDOS

Το (πάντα δραστήριο) αρχείο της ΕΡΤ ψηφιοποίησε ένα σπάνιο ντοκουμέντο. Μια εκπομπή γυρισμένη τον Μάιο του 1987, πριν το Ευρωμπάσκετ. Μια αναδρομή στα πρώτα 50 χρόνια του Ελληνικού μπάσκετ, που φτάνει έως και την προετοιμασία της Εθνικής του 87 στη Νάουσα. ert.gr/ert-arxeio/i-ellada-p…

We’ve gone from companies suing individuals for piracy, to individuals outraged at companies for...piracy. Wouldn't have imagined this 5 years ago.

github.com/dspinellis/ai-cli… it is real fun and helpful when you are forgetting stuff @DSpinellis @CoolSWEng 🙏

Can't miss Markus on DIDs!

Evgenios Kornaropoulos' computer science paper was nominated for a Pwnie Award in the Best Cryptographic Attack category at the DEFCON Hacking Conference. cec.gmu.edu/news/2024-09/com… #ComputerScience #CSAward #CryptographicAttack #Hacking #CyberSecurity #InfoSec

The folks at the Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast invited me to nerd out with them about Telegram crypto. So we did that over beer. securitycryptographywhatever…

One of the things we need to discuss is that LLMs listening to your conversations and phone calls, reading your texts and emails — this is all going to be normalized and inevitable within seven years.

“The gift that gives on giving.” If you want a simple introduction aimed at software developers, check out dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/jrnl/2…

Γι' αυτό πρέπει να διαφυλάσσουμε τη Διαύγεια ως κόρη οφθαλμού και να προάγουμε τη διαφάνεια στη λειτουργία του κράτους.👇 Φανταστείτε τι γινόταν πριν θεσπιστεί η Διαύγεια. Υπάρχουν όμως ακόμα πολλοί σκοτεινοί τομείς και πολλές ευκαιρίες ανοίγματος δεδομένων.

Growing list of production use of "fancy" cryptography with actual adoption. Lots of early web3/blockchain projects use "fancy" crypto, but don't have any real adoption yet.

Who says biometrics can’t be rotated?

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

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A network eavesdropper can completely reveal keystrokes for apps we tested. This puts upto a billion people who use these input methods at risk, including people who live in #China and diaspora users across the world, and others. We urge all users of Sogou, Baidu, and iFlytek keyboards to update their apps and operating systems immediately, turn off "cloud prediction" capabilities, or switch to a different keyboard altogether. Read this report’s accompanying FAQ: citizenlab.ca/2024/04/chines…

George Xylomenos presenting “Data integrity protection for data spaces” at @EuroSecWorkshop @EuroSys_conf @SecoperaP