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Cryptography

Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption

Governments are back on their anti-encryption bullshit again. Between the U.S. Senate’s “EARN IT” Act, the E.U.’s slew of anti-encryption proposals, and Australia’s new anti-encryption law, it’s become clear that the authoritarians in office view online privacy as a threat to their existence. Normally, when the governments increase their anti-privacy sabre-rattling, technologists start talking more […]

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Cryptography

Authenticated Key Exchanges

Authenticated Key Exchanges are an interesting and important building block in any protocol that aims to allow people to communicate privately over an untrusted medium (i.e. the Internet). What’s an AKE? At their core, Authenticated Key Exchanges (AKEs for short) combine two different classes of protocol. An authentication mechanism, such as a MAC or a […]