yeah yeah yeah, the author has a thing for steganography, but there's so much gold in this book, especially Chapter 4. If you take my "advanced topics in cryptography" module in autumn, you'll hear about it.
"Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents" by Jean-François Blanchette is underappreciated by cryptographers. Go read it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026201751...
An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents—in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwri...
UK Crypto Day | 20 June 2024 | Edinburgh uk-crypto-day.github.io/2024/06/20/u...
eprint 2024/555: "Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix. Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold."
Also: "I sincerely thank Hongxun Wu and (independently) Thomas Vidick for finding the bug today."
I really wanted to write this up, also as a public apology!
Maybe this part of the article will be a useful reference point for people when writing their next rebuttal about a “Crypto in the Wild” paper. We certainly want to encourage researchers to keep going in this direction.
And we address the question: Is this science? We think the answer is a hard “yes”, if science is about gaining a deeper understanding of the world around us.
We also talk about the responsibilities of researchers - as we see them: to whom we owe them, and what they are. (Sneak preview: we don’t think our responsibilities are mainly towards vendors.)