The cr.yp.to microblog: 2026.06.23 17:30:05

2026.06.23 17:30:05 (Mastodon 116800605738133127, Twitter 2069473089696751672) from Daniel J. Bernstein:

One interesting aspect of https://web.archive.org/web/20260622222335/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/ is the demand that federal contractors (starting mid-2027) label "the use of non-FIPS approved algorithms" as a "vulnerability". The 1990s version of this would be telling contractors to label RSA above 512 as a "vulnerability".