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New blog post: "Reducing 'gate' counts for Kyber-512: Two algorithm analyses, from first principles, contradicting NIST's calculation." https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231023-clumping.html #xor #popcount #gates #memory #clumping Also via Cloudflare given the frequent DoS attacks: https://blog-cr-yp-to.viacache.net/20231023-clumping.html
djb - DuckDuckGo it if you aren't familiar - in his most recent blog post about the NIST standardization efforts for next-gen cryptography shows, quite clearly, how badly #NIST botched their #calculations. But perhaps more importantly, they have resisted all efforts to correct their mistake(s), or even acknowledge them.
I found it much easier to comprehend than his previous post. If you're interested in #cryptography and aren't scared of a little #math:
This less-than-transparent behaviour on the part of #NIST, when added to all their #machinations trying to obscure the deep involvement of the #NSA in the competition, instead attributing NSA's work to NIST itself, is troubling.
To a conspiratorially-minded person, Occam's Razor might suggest that it was NSA's #attempt to get the world to #standardize on #encryption that is much #weaker than claimed - i.e., encryption that they know they can already #break.