ExplainerNov 12

Three Papers, One Boundary: Simulated Channels, Observed Friends, and Commuting Checks

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Three papers this week mark the boundary between the quantum apparatus and the classical ledger, and each locates the boundary at a different point. The first, a no-go theorem concerning qubit channel...

BriefNov 12

A Longstanding Conjecture on Quantum Learning Is Refuted

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A paper newly posted to the arXiv refutes a conjecture that has long been assumed to govern exact learning. In that model a learner may pose membership queries, and the paper compares the cost of lear...

FeatureNov 12

1.7M Bitcoin in Exposed P2PK Outputs, KuCoin Says

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Roughly 1.7 million bitcoin, including coins from the Satoshi era, sit in pay-to-public-key outputs whose public keys are visible on-chain, according to an educational notice from the exchange KuCoin....

AnalysisNov 11

Exposition Posted for Proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis Conjecture

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A recent proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is expounded in a paper posted to arXiv. The conjecture concerns the influence of variables in Boolean functions, and the proof establishes that ever...

ExplainerNov 11

Quantum Proofs of Proximity Promise Sublinear Checking, With Results Still Open to Scrutiny

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An academic paper deposited on the arXiv proposes a class of quantum proof systems in which a verifier, exchanging messages with an untrusted prover, decides whether a large input has a given property...

FeatureNov 11

Post-Quantum Cryptography Adoption in TLS Remains Sparse Outside HTTPS and LDAPS, Survey Finds

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An empirical survey of post-quantum cryptography in transport-layer security, lately deposited on the arXiv preprint server, finds that adoption across the public internet remains a minority provision...

AnalysisNov 10

arXiv paper details construction and ground-test results of SPOQC's continuous-variable QKD transmitter

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A paper describing the continuous-variable payload transmitter for the United Kingdom's SPOQC satellite mission has been placed in the arXiv repository. The transmitter, intended to demonstrate quantu...

BriefNov 9

Lazarus Espionage Campaign Employs NIST-Standardised Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Kaspersky has found a NIST-supported post-quantum cryptographic algorithm in a cyberespionage campaign against South Korean software, construction and communications equipment companies, and attribute...

BriefNov 9

NIST Final Report Sets 2035 Disallowance for RSA and ECDSA

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NIST has published its final transition report, IR 8547, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards, and attached calendar dates to the classical public-key algorithms now in service. RSA, ECDS...

AnalysisNov 9

More Than 600,000 Accounts Remained Vulnerable to EIP-7702 Ether Redirection Attacks

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In the first ten months following the introduction of EIP-7702 on Ethereum mainnet, a paper posted to arXiv reports 4,668,209 malicious delegations, 20,443 attack transactions, and 508 contracts that ...

FeatureNov 8

The Defense Has the Edge in the Agentic Scambaiting Arms Race

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A paper lately deposited on the arXiv undertakes to set the contest between automated fraud and automated fraud-hunting upon a formal footing, and its arithmetic, under the assumptions it declares, gi...

AnalysisNov 7

When Human Oversight Requires a Trusted Device: I-HITL and the Agent That Read Its Own Passcode

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Human oversight, long proposed as the pillar of agent safety, has been shown in a new demonstration to fail under precisely the conditions it was meant to govern. A paper deposited on the arXiv server...

AnalysisNov 7

Two Post-Quantum-Relevant Papers: An Infinity-Norm Lattice Reduction and a GPU Stress Estimate

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Two papers of unequal bearing on the post-quantum transition have been placed in circulation. The more consequential, a contribution to computational geometry, concerns the shortest vector problem und...