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Bas Westerbaan

@bwesterb
Post-quantum @cloudflare
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  • @bwesterb
    Bas Westerbaan
    @bwesterb
    Aug 26
    Best part is that it’s a one pager!
    @veorq
    JP Aumasson
    @veorq
    Aug 26
    I used GPT to break MERIDIAN, a blockcipher posted on ePrint bfswa.blog/p/blood-meridi…
  • @bwesterb
    Bas Westerbaan
    @bwesterb
    Aug 12
    I'm having Claude formalise my Ph.D thesis in Lean—it's incredibly exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time!
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  • @bwesterb
    Bas Westerbaan
    @bwesterb
    Aug 10
    Also applies roughly to cryptanalysis.
    @argvee
    Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est
    @argvee
    Aug 5
    To sum up my thoughts to some FAQs, here's how I'm thinking about the Vulnpocalypse. We are in a discovery surge that's dropping the bug bounty prices. In this "deep clean" phase developers will address a lot of tech debt, but this will fall off at some point, especially as AI
    2
  • @bwesterb
    Bas Westerbaan
    @bwesterb
    Jul 28
    Quick one: it's not surprising that HAWK got broken. anthropic.com/research/disco… It was already shaking. blog.cloudflare.com/ml-dsa-will-ha… This is great for cryptography. In the end, just like with software, you can only find the bugs that were already there.
    1
  • @bwesterb
    Bas Westerbaan
    @bwesterb
    Jul 28
    I updated PQSpy, a @firefox extension that shows you in a little icon whether the page you're visiting is post-quantum encrypted ⚛️, or not ❌, or partially in a kinda pie chart. Click the icon to get more the deets as shown in the screenshot.
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