Hat tip Ray Dillinger. (I steal from the best. Been stealing from him for twenty four years.)
Nist has with great regularity issued kleptographic standards.
What is a kleptographic standard? It is a standard that ensures that NSA can read other people’s data. Snowden revealed the inside info on Nist Standards.
And, lo and behold, Nist is terribly alarmed by the terrible threat of Quantum Cryptography, the terrible terrible terrible awful horribly imminent threat, and has issued a new standard to deal with this terrible threat.
And lo and behold a whole lot of people promoting this terrible terrible threat and the new wonderful supergood solution to it, Post Quantum Cryptography, seem to be getting funding and support through the backdoor in ways that suggest that this funding and promotions is coming from the spooks.
In actual fact, the current state of Quantum Cryptography remains unchanged from what it was thirty years ago.
There are no actual quantum computers: There are “fiddly delicate machines demonstrating basic
principles that vaguely indicate a possibility that one day actual quantum computers could be constructed.”
None of these machines has actually accomplished a quantum factoring of any integer, notwithstanding numerous headlines that might lead one to believe that they have factored the numbers fifteen and and twenty one. They have not.
An actual quantum computer would need to have a lot of Tofolli gates, which would need to establish a massively entangled state over a lot of qubits. To do something interesting with that massively entangled state, you need a lot more Toffoli gates that qbits, and the massively entangled state has to remain coherent for long enough. Trouble is as soon as you put in some Toffoli gates to entangle the state, the system decoheres.
This situation just is not changing, even though from time to time we get various basic principles demonstrated in ways that are arguably more impressive than previous demonstrations, we are still back where we were in the beginning — no substantial controlled entanglement that remains coherent, and no real factorisations even of very small integers.
Ray Dillinger:
We’ve been hearing a whole lot about Quantum Cryptography lately. And considering the state of play in terms of actual quantum computers, it’s hard to justify how much fear, uncertainty, and doubt there is.
The mismatch between perceived threat and demonstrated threat is so spectacular that it looks like a FUD campaign. Which is a necessary step in a Kleptographic Standards attack. Kleptographic Standards are promulgated addressing fear of some threat, so that the fear can be used as a lever to get people to do something stupid.
Post Quantum Cryptography, “(SKEIN, KYBER, KEM) is promulgated by NIST, the same people who brought us the Dual-EC DRBG standard.” Which looked like it was designed so that it could have a hidden backdoor, and then Snowden revealed that it did have a hidden backdoor.
And, what do you know: The new Post Quantum Cryptography standard also looks like it was designed so that it can have a hidden backdoor.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1681.pdf
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-82852-2_11
algorithms in this class may have backdoors structurally built into them!
These papers are not reassuring. These remind me of Bernstein’s paper when the Dual-EC DRBG was being standardized.
Quantum Cryptography, while intellectually neat, does not present a practical attack that we need protection against at this time.
Kleptographic Standards on the other hand are very much a practical attack that we need to protect against at this time.
When a standards body tells you that you should cast aside well-studied cryptographic algorithms which have earned their trust through dozens of years of examination, testing, and motivated attackers, for the sake of protection against Quantum Crypto? The attack you should be protecting against isn’t Quantum Crypto.
And this is why Coin Shill is now banned on this blog, as is anyone promoting Quantum Crypto Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.
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I am kind of sick of Jews who last year were trying to ban Easter pulling the “hail fellow Judeo-Christian, you should unite with us Jews against those horrid Muslims” card.
I get shills saying “Jews bad, therefore we should get with the George Soros program to defeat Orange Man Bad”, and I get shills saying “Muslims bad therefore die for Israel”, and I fairly sure both sets of shills are Jewish. (Two Jews, three factions.)
The George Soros Jews say I a Jew, and the die-for-Israel Jews say I am a Muslim.
There was never anything wrong with ‘master’ and ‘slave’, nor ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’.