The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) uses an electronic voting system which needs three members, each with part of an encrypted key, to access the results. In a statement, the scientific organisation said one of the trustees had lost their key in "an honest but unfortunate human mistake", making it impossible for them to decrypt - and uncover - the final results.
Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached him with an unusual offer. She said she represented a wealthy client interested in funding voting systems that would encourage bigger turnouts. Did he have any ideas? "I told her you should stay away from internet voting, because it's really, really hard," he says.
For cryptography, .NET 10 introduces extensive new APIs across cryptography, globalization, numerics, serialization, collections, and diagnostics. Also, with quantum computing on the horizon, .NET 10 expands post-quantum cryptography support with Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) support, enhanced ML-DSA with simplified APIs, and HashML-DSA support, plus Composite ML-DSA for hybrid approaches. Additional cryptography enhancements include AES KeyWrap with Padding support for secure key wrapping scenarios.
It may sound anachronistic to use terms like espionage, counterintelligence, secret services, or double agents in relation to ancient times. But activities, organizations, and personnel that largely fit our current concepts were widely deployed by the civilizations of the ancient world, giving truth to the saying that there is nothing new under the Sun (or, in this case, the shadows). To provide a few examples: Ramses II was nearly defeated at the Battle of Kadesh (which ended in a stalemate)
We clustered 91,954 cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow and manually analyzed 383 to comprehend the crypto challenges developers face. Developers showed a lack of knowledge of fundamental concepts.
The transformation needed for organisations in the UK to be ready for the threat of post-quantum computing will make preparations for the millennium bug look easy, cyber chiefs said today.
