U.S. - #Education in #Danger 🙀

source: arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

A prominent computer #scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on #cryptography, #privacy, and #cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his #professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his #employer, #Indiana #University, and had his homes raided by the #FBI. No one knows why.

#usa #problem #politics #crime #future #news #fnord #wtf #omg

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

Haha, good one!

#Cryptography

@wiktor
@octade
I *really* appreciate your input here. The purpose of this thread is to venture into opportunities to improve traditional email in a way that doesn't suck (as @soatok also states in depth in his blog post that #email for socially working end-to-end confidentiality sucks). It is also not about other tools (like Signal, Bitmessage, Briar, ...).

This is about potential #cryptography for #authenticity or mon-repudiation use cases of email. PGP flavours, S/MIME or something else?

I was wondering ... as #email encryption via PGP/GnuPG is not suitable for true and ongoing end-to-end confidentiality. But what about authenticity of mails? I dislike S/MIME for its corporate nature, and #PGP via PGP/MIME is well enough supported by many (free) mail clients.

What's the #cryptography or #security community's view on PGP for signing emails? Or what would a suitable alternative be? I haven't come across any, though.

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Consider hosting a CryptoParty in 2025.

Please share your knowledge with people interested in learning but may need help getting started.

Email encryption is an example, some people may not realize protecting messages is easier than they imagine. This may also benefit people around the world they communicate with if they already use email encryption.

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Website: cryptoparty.in

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