Paul Wouters

Aiven Security Architect
IETF Security Area Director, IESG
Opensource dev: libreswan, Fedora, etc (see github)
NIST SP800-77 Rev.1 author
RDRonline player

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Konstantin Weddigeweddige@gruene.social
2025-06-16

The best outcome of this day would that people who have been clinging to the appearance of normality will finally have to admit that the US is no longer a democracy.

The EU and NATO must not only figure out how to defend themselves without the US, but also get used to the idea that they may have to defend themselves against the US.

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2025-06-16

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

Full-size image: storage.mollywhite.net/trump-f
Disclosures: oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Extremely tangled diagram depicting relationships between LLCs, major companies, the Trump family, Bill Zanker and various other individuals, and various crypto projects including the $TRUMP memecoin, NFTs, World Liberty Financial, etc.
2025-06-15

These crowds are so huge, so phenomenal, it calls for Sean Spicer ! youtu.be/K6S5dYKt128

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2025-06-15

Newspapers: if your headlines tomorrow don't say "tanks for nothing" then you are all cowards

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Frederic Jacobsfj
2025-06-15

Crypto: Sponsoring military parades for the Great Leader’s birthday

Just like Satoshi envisioned it.

A photo of the grandstand at the DC Military Parade for Trump. The awning is black with the gold "US ARMY" logo used in more modern promotions. featuring a star.

Behind the stands where Trump and other government people would sit are two screens featuring the "coinbase" logo in matching branding with the US Army.
2025-06-15

Canadian roam at home is $15/day when using 0 phone calls and 0 data.
Can’t wait for Canada 🇨🇦 to join the euro🇪🇺
ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E

2025-06-15

In America, you can’t tell the difference between government razzia or terrorists killing government members fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

2025-06-14

@w7voa Charged with reckless driving and not terrorism or attempted murder ?

Paul Wouters boosted:
2025-06-14

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling
addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results
appear first."
The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple
times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.
Paul Wouters boosted:
2025-06-14

The IETF working group that I co-chair, PQUIP, had its first RFC published today. RFC 9794, "Terminology for Post-Quantum Traditional Hybrid Schemes", lists and describes terms used in post-quantum cryptography that are specific to the hybrid schemes that have become the focus for much of the PQC development work.

In short hybrid schemes are those that fully mix both post-quantum and traditional asymmetric algorithms. There are a lot of ways to mix them (some better than others), and thus there are a lot of properties that different mixtures have. The result is a lot of potentially confusing vocabulary full of similar-looking four-word chains. This document lays out all the differences so that other groups (other IETF working groups, other standards development organizations, governments making standards, ...) can be precise about what schemes they are adopting and why.

Congrats to the WG and the RFC authors!

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc97

#ietf #rfc #pqc
(not using hashtag-hybrid because this ain't about cars, and certainly not using hashtag-crypto because bleaugh)

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13

I found the real Fediverse chick!

2025-06-13

I really need to jump multiverses ……
journa.host/@w7voa/11467281378

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@Gargron The real question is whether Meta’s circumvention of Android’s safeguards for the advertising ID — and their ability to unmask real user identities — qualifies as a criminal offense under Germany’s anti-hacking law (§202a StGB) or similar international laws governing cyberattacks.

What Meta did wasn’t just a violation of GDPR. It involved bypassing built-in technical protections with the intent to extract and link data — potentially personally identifiable information (PII) — to users without their knowledge or consent.

That is the textbook definition of unauthorized access and data exfiltration.

We need to stop framing this as a regulatory issue or a privacy mishap. This was a malicious cyber intrusion, done knowingly and at scale, by a corporation with full awareness of the legal and technical boundaries it was crossing.

It’s time we start treating it as such.

2025-06-11

vm.tiktok.com/ZMSUVUDK4/
Trump speeches in Palpatine voice 🤣

2025-06-11

@jpmens Nothing beats the “Ubuntu cannot print on Tuesday” bug 🤣

2025-06-11

@z3r0fox Yes it’s Common Milkweed - ensure it lives to feed the monarch butterflies ! I am waiting on my planted milkweed seeds to come up 😀

Paul Wouters boosted:
Jonathan Kamens 86 47jik@federate.social
2025-06-11

I'm impressed that #StarTrek #DS9 was only about nine months and half a state off in their prediction about the Bell Riots.
I'm still holding out hope for their Irish Reunification prediction.
#LosAngeles #politics

2025-06-11

If I was an American, I’d wear, suit pants, a white button down shirt and a sweater and carry an empty white plastic bag, enter the viewing area and when the tanks arrive put my sweater in my plastic bag, jump the fence and stand in front of a tank.
mastodon.social/@randahl/11466

Paul Wouters boosted:
Frederic Jacobsfj
2025-06-09

🆕⚛️🔐 Starting with iOS 26, CryptoKit gets support for quantum-secure cryptography with algorithms such as ML-KEM, ML-DSA and HPKE with X-Wing:

developer.apple.com/documentat

👉 Join us for a session on how to protect your app's user data from the emerging threat of quantum computing!
developer.apple.com/videos/pla

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