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29 May

Matthew Green 14 min read

This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting vulnerability. But it did teach me a lot about frontier LLM APIs and coding agents. It also got me certified as an … Continue reading Let’s talk…

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18 Nov 2025

19 Feb 2025

Matthew Green 16 min read

This is the third and penultimate post in a series about theoretical weaknesses in Fiat-Shamir as applied to proof systems. The first post is here, the second post is here, and you should probably read them. Over the past two posts I’ve given a bit of background on four subjects: (1) interactive proof systems (for … Continue reading How to…

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4 Feb 2025

Matthew Green 17 min read

Trigger warning: incredibly wonky theoretical cryptography post (written by a non-theorist)! Also, this will be in two parts. I plan to be back with some more thoughts on practical stuff, like cloud backup, in the near future. If you’ve read my blog over the years, you should understand that I have basically two obsessions. One … Continue reading How to…

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16 Apr 2024

Matthew Green 4 min read

Update (April 19): Yilei Chen announced the discovery of a bug in the algorithm, which he does not know how to fix. This was independently discovered by Hongxun Wu and Thomas Vidick. At present, the paper does not provide a polynomial-time algorithm for solving LWE. If you’re a normal person — that is, a person … Continue reading A quick…

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26 May 2015

Luciano Mammino 2 min read

Keybase.io is a new service that combines asymmetric cryptography with a social network. It allows users to easily share public keys and authenticate messages by linking keys to profiles on Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, etc. The service provides encrypted messaging and bitcoin wallet pairing to make adopting cryptography seamless.

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