STORY OF THE MONTH

Aug
2025
When Eve Wins by Making Bob Go Quiet
Quantum key distribution (QKD) promises information-theoretic security. In practice, clever eavesdroppers…
Loïc Millet
Jul
2025
Just Guess! Improved Algorithm for underdetermined MQ solving
In this story of the month, we dive deep into the world of cryptographic signature schemes and their security.
Massimo Ostuzzi
Jun
2025
LOST IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY
In my last story of the month, we saw how a cryptographer navigates the classical landscape—toggling between symmetric and asymmetric schemes, publi…
Álvaro Yángüez Bachiller
May
2025
Latticia and the Web of Trapdoors.
In the land of Cryptonia, spiderwebs were more than homes—they were mathematical puzzles. Each web was built on a hidden structure called a lattice;…
Fabrizio Sisinni
Apr
2025
Memory-Hard hash functions.
Memory-Hard hash functions are a cryptographic primitive used to make hash functions more expensive to implement in hardware. This reduces the financi…
Gina Muuss
Mar
2025
The Boring Sabotage
I can’t believe it’s come to this. Eight years in the army, countless hours of training, and now I’m stuck on the most boring sabotage mission i…
Sergio Juárez

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