The banks are finally buying the vaults. In May, BNY, the world's largest custodian with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ethereum custody in Abu Dhabi. Weeks later, Standard Chartered confirmed it will fully acquire Zodia Custody, the digital asset custodian it incubated in 2020, with the […]

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They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

Cicada 3301 is the name of "three sets of puzzles posted under the name '3301' online between 2012 and 2014." The first appeared on 4chan on January 4, 2012, and ran for nearly a month; a second came in 2013, and a third in 2014. — Read the rest

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Kryptos is a sculpture by artist Jim Sanborn on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Dedicated on November 3, 1990, it carries four encrypted messages. "Of these four messages, the first three have been solved, while the fourth message remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world." — Read the rest

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_As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my section._

Renowned technologist and author Bruce Schneier contributed a column on June 20, 2010, warning about cryptography’s inability to secure modern…

3,068 words This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal of all. –The Zodiac Killer There many stock characters embedded in the psyche of the movie-going public. Vampires, aliens, cowboys, […]

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The SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List keeps growing. New cryptoClass values, a structured docs folder, PQC as a new property, and SCANOSS as our first user-contributor. Here is what happened in the past months.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

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It's not looking good for global cybersecurity.

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My talk for Atmosphere Conference 2026

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Succinct launches ZCAM, an iPhone app that uses cryptography to verify real photos and videos at capture.

There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.

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The modern web is a major pain to use without a password manager app. However, using such a service requires you to entrust your precious secrets to a third party. …read more

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John Carreyrou — the journalist who broke the Theranos story — spent 18 months trying to identify Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator. His conclusion, published in the _New York Times_ this week: Adam Back, 55, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the computational puzzle system that became Bitcoin's proof-of-work mining engine. — Read the rest

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Why we changed the key version to be a required parameters for Key Vault cryptography APIs in Azure SDK for Rust.

I noodle about my pet atproto project for playing board & card games without a trusted 3rd party, and the foundations I'd need to make it a smooth and fun experience for people!

Google says that it will fully transition to post-quantum cryptography by 2029. I think this is a good move, not because I think we will have a useful quantum computer anywhere near that year, but because crypto-agility is always a good thing.

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Naoris Protocol has gone live with its quantum-resistant blockchain mainnet, becoming the first Layer 1 network built entirely on post-quantum cryptography approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology — a milestone arriving as researchers shorten timelines for…