A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...

France shows some sense and drops the backdoor mandate:

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NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption The new algorithm will serve as a backup for the general encryption needed to protect data from quantum computers developed in the future

NIST selects HQC as backup post
quantum cryptography algorithm in case there are issues with ML-KEM.

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#quantum #technology

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U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Crypto Wars 2.0 : The Empire Strikes Back

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Post-Quantum Cryptography | CSRC | CSRC Short URL:  https://www.nist.gov/pqcrypto FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205, which specify algorithms derived from CRYSTALS-Dilithium, CRYSTALS-KYBER and SPHINCS+, were published August 13, 2024.  PQC...

Today NIST announced the approval of FIPS standards for PQC:

www.nist.gov/pqcrypto
If you’re interested in driving the adoption of PQC through open source, check out PQCA : pqca.org

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