2024-10-17
Quantum Apocalypse?
NIST finalized their first post quantum secure cryptographic algorithms in August 2024. This post provides a technical intuition on the actual impact of this, going beyond the hype and buzzwords.

Hi, I'm Pascal! Cryptography Engineer at ELCASecurity, privacy enjoyer and tinkerer. Here I write about Cryptography and Security. For shorter and more frequent posts see:
NIST finalized their first post quantum secure cryptographic algorithms in August 2024. This post provides a technical intuition on the actual impact of this, going beyond the hype and buzzwords.
Getting into the weeds of my flashy website banner, that simulates a padding-oracle attack on AES-CBC.
When I started this project, I thought there would be little to find. However, it didn't take long for my initial assumptions to be proven wrong.
A collection of study material I created back when I was tutoring Computer Science at ETH Zürich