In Japan again, and Finnair again used the "Northern Route" (I got a certificate this time!) Recap: Russian airspace being completely blocked, this flight from Helsinki goes almost right over the north pole to reach the Bering Strait (and Alaska ATC), then turns SW to reach Tokyo.

These researchers did some Delving [sic] into LLM generated text in biomedical research papers. [ Dmitry Kobak et al. "Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary." Sci. Adv. 11, eadt3813 (2025). science.org/doi/10.1126/... ]

Some seem to have interpreted the Trump June 6 "cybersecurity diff" EO to set some kind of deadline on PQC but no. This EO imposes a deadline for a PQC product categories (?) and, uh, TLS 1.3. (However those PQC deadlines still exists in other places.) www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Post-Quantum Multi-Message Public Key Encryption from Extended Reproducible PKE (Hongxiao Wang, Ron Steinfeld, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Muhammed F. Esgin, Siu-Ming Yiu) ia.cr/2025/1000

the slides are at mjos.fi/doc/20250530...

new paper eprint.iacr.org/2025/1000 artifact is at github.com/ml-kem/mmcip...

"bitcoin style encryption"

The talk is on Friday at 11:15 (hardwear.io/usa-2025/sch...) I released some of the tooling used to generate rough pre-silicon "toggle" traces github.com/ml-dsa/abr-sim

Btw CNSSP-15 is publicly available: "Use of Public Standards for Secure Information Sharing" (Version: March 2025) Nothing really new here, but "CNSSP-15" now seems like the most appropriate thing to cite wrt CNSA 2.0. www.cnss.gov/CNSS/issuanc...

Having fun making a talk for a hands-on security conf.. In academic research we often ignore simple implementation bugs, API design flaws, and other "trivial" ways to break crypto systems. But for a real-world security talk such findings are *gold*.. 😅 hardwear.io/usa-2025/spe...

I've been wanting to do the Belfast City Marathon ever since I lived here 2015-16. Had the opportunity to do the run this weekend. No official timing yet, but it will be something like 4:06. Yes, they let runners choose their bib numbers for £5, and I couldn't resist 😉