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Brian Sletten<p>Another good outcome in the UK’s lunacy case against Apple:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nobackdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nobackdoors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptomeanscryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptomeanscryptography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/uk-demand-for-apple-backdoor-should-not-be-heard-in-secret-says-court/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/uk-d</span><span class="invisible">emand-for-apple-backdoor-should-not-be-heard-in-secret-says-court/</span></a></p>
Brian Sletten<p>France shows some sense and drops the backdoor mandate:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptomeanscryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptomeanscryptography</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nobackdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nobackdoors</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-</span><span class="invisible">encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate</span></a></p>
Brian Sletten<p>NIST selects HQC as backup post <br>quantum cryptography algorithm in case there are issues with ML-KEM.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptomeanscryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptomeanscryptography</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nist.gov/news-events/news/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryption</span></a></p>
Brian Sletten<p>Wow, Apple is really fighting this.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptomeanscryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptomeanscryptography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/apple-appeals-uks-secret-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-encrypted-user-data/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/apple-appeals-uks-secret-demand-for-backdoor-access-to-encrypted-user-data/</span></a></p>
Omkhar<p>Today NIST announced the approval of FIPS standards for PQC:</p><p>* FIPS 203 (Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard, CRYSTALS-KYBER submission)<br>* FIPS 204 (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard, CRYSTALS-Dilithium submission)<br>* FIPS 205 (Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard, SPHINCS+ submission)</p><p>While the road to adoption will be a long one, this is a critical first step towards the future of quantum resistant cryptography.</p><p>More info <a href="https://www.nist.gov/pqcrypto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nist.gov/pqcrypto</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>If you’re interested in driving the adoption of PQC through open source, check out PQCA : <a href="https://pqca.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pqca.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pqc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pqc</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptography</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cryptomeanscryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptomeanscryptography</span></a></p>