Notices by Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org), page 5

Trust me- no one knows what it means.

.@bitwarden raises $100 million investment from PSG Equity who takes a minority position in the company.

Corporate plans remain the same with the ability to deliver more value to users and customers more quickly.

https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-users-bitwarden-raises-usd100-million/

NIST is issuning a call for additional digital signature schemes for the
Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization process

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/pqc-dig-sig/standardization/call-for-proposals

Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/09/04/peter-eckersley-co-creator-of-lets-encrypt-dies-at-just-43/

Just finished reading "The design and evolution of OCB", by Ted Krovetz and Phil Rogaway.

Two things stuck out at me. First, this at the end:

"The limited adoption of OCB
exemplifies the often poisonous impact of patents on cryptographic practice."

http://krovetz.net/csus/papers/ocb_joc.pdf (PDF)

The second thing that stuck out at me was not necessarily OCB's performance, which we already knew was amazing, but how it also compared to ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AEGIS-128. And the presentation of that performance is on point.

Looks like #Linux 5.19 just landed in #Debian unstable. IMO, probably the biggest change made to the RNG is that it no longer pretends to handle the "premature next" security model.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220522214457.37108-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/T/#u

AdGuard has just launched the first Manifest V3 ad blocker for Chromium-based browsers.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html

Crypto\.com mistakenly sent a customer $7.2 million instead of a $68 refund.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330458/crypto-dot-com-typo-mistake-refund-audit

Use a VPN that does ad filtering at the DNS level, like Pihole.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/30/google_play_vpn_rules_changed/