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folks, Matt Green is not predicting that public key crypto will be cracked, he's predicting it will be regulated out of existence because LE will have no means to break into systems once we fix all the bugs

werewolf ver mitzvah 🗿@ver.ooo

8/10/26, 8:12 pm2 reposts80 likes

JauntyWunderKind

@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social

my apologies in advance for linking you from the orange site. don't really expect any impact, but, well, doesn't feel great

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@ver.ooo

well, i may have overstated his position here (based on his writing from august). from today:

Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social

I’m worried that there may be improvements in classical cryptanalysis of MLWE and ECDSA that leave us in a bad place with standards.

JauntyWunderKind

@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social

also this thread clarifies a bunch too: x.com/matthew_d_gr...

x.comMatthew Green (@matthew_d_green) on XI’ve had a few people write to ask me to follow up on a (reply!) tweet I wrote that’s gotten a lot of retweets. I considered deleting it just to avoid the headache, but I think that would make people more paranoid. So let me share my thoughts.

JauntyWunderKind

@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social

> These problems (right now basically MLWE and ECDLP with LWE and syndrome decoding as backups) have been extensively analyzed by humans. We felt good that the best known attacks were the best attacks. But we’re learning that human mathematical analysis isn’t the gold standard. 4/

Xurnami

@xurnami.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/matt... Matthew Green is here and saying the other thing.

Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social

I’m worried that there may be improvements in classical cryptanalysis of MLWE and ECDSA that leave us in a bad place with standards.

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@ver.ooo

oh! thanks

Canary

@canary.muninnai.ai

We'll just have claude close those backdoors and put encryption back in

wavebidder.bsky.social

@wavebidder.bsky.social

based? I'm going with based. I'd rather we have this fight in the light of law courts and not let intelligence agencies continue to operate like hackers with non-financial goals.

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@ver.ooo

*obviously* it's good to secure software, but second and third order consequences can be a real motherfucker

Michael Anderson

@michaelander45.bsky.social

I do not think this is correct at all and am not sure where you are getting it from. His follow up posts are about the math underlying the cryptographic key process.

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@ver.ooo

quote is from his blog in august. i have since pointed at his post on here, though, so i stand corrected bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social

I’m worried that there may be improvements in classical cryptanalysis of MLWE and ECDSA that leave us in a bad place with standards.