cryptography. usually sf.

Joined March 2022
I wasn’t going to comment since this is a really bad take IMO, but since it’s taken off I feel the need to. To my understanding, there is no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades old hardness assumptions like elliptic curve cryptography. 1/n
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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What cryptography makes it into production and is Ethereum diverging from the rest of industry as it prepares for the post-quantum transition? ravital.github.io/blog/2026/…
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in case you missed it! hear me chat about post-quantum cryptography for blockchain 😇
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Excited for this partnership with @latticaai
We're excited to announce our partnership with @latticaai to bring production-ready TFHE to developers. Our Parasol compiler helps builders turn ordinary code into high‑performance FHE programs. With Lattica's managed infrastructure, you can deploy encrypted computation without spinning up your own servers. What this means: compile locally with Sunscreen, deploy to Lattica, and run programs on encrypted data in production. No plaintext exposure, no infrastructure headaches. This opens the door for applications requiring exact computation on sensitive data - from smart contracts to secure voting to genomic analysis. Get started with 3 free compute hours: lattica.ai/tfhe Read more on our blog: blog.sunscreen.tech/deployin…
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Introducing Circuit Bootstrapping (CBS) - cmux A purpose-built, and novel encrypted computing environment, based on Circuit Bootstrapping, that significantly reduces latency and increases parallelism in FHE operations.
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ravital retweeted
I’ve been privacy pilled. Lately reading a lot about @Zcash and just learning about its origin. The video below is an interesting deep dive into the history of privacy in digital currencies and how $ZEC was born, everything told by @zooko. Since then I stumbled upon @SunscreenTech which have an extremely good and easy to use framework (SPE) to develop FHE web2 and web3 apps in seconds. Also, ended up contributing to the raise of @UmbraPrivacy. In my opinion, the ecosystem or protocol does not matter, we need privacy, any research or advance is important no matter where it comes from, we must keep everything open source and with good intentions to keep accelerating. I really think privacy is a must in the digital age and verifiability with privacy is an extremely important aspect for the future. From businesses being able to do transactions privately to avoid having industry secrets leaked or being tracked by competition to inviduals being able to spend their money without surveillance. Privacy is a must for the future and for the adoption of blockchain, to keep empowering users and keep their freedom. Thanks to @AndyGuzmanEth for the conversations we’ve had and made me realize even more how important privacy is.
Satoshi's Last Wish - The Full Story 00:00 Intro 00:41 Before Bitcoin: The Failure of DigiCash 01:37 The 12-Year Struggle: Cypherpunks vs. The Centralization Problem 03:01 Enter Bitcoin: Satoshi’s Proposed Solution To The Centralization Problem 05:20 Early Days: Bitcoin’s First Blogpost & Satoshi’s Webpage 10:07 Bitcoin’s Major Flaw: The Second Problem Satoshi Wanted to Solve 12:31 Satoshi Proposes A Solution To Bitcoin’s Privacy Problem 14:03 What Did Satoshi Mean By A More Useable Version of Bitcoin? 17:20 Passing The Torch: Solving What Satoshi Couldn’t
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🌞 Introducing SPF🧴🔒 Our Secure Processing Framework (SPF) enables developers to bring FHE to any web2 or web3 app in a performant and scalable way. ✅ One program, any chain ✅ State-of-the-art performance ✅ Future-proof with post-quantum security
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congrats to the primus team on their launch!
Primus AlphaNet Launch 🚀 1/ Primus AlphaNet lets individuals control their own data with better security and fairness, and makes it easier to monetize that data. Take part and start building your verified Web3 identity. 🔗 app.primuslabs.xyz/
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Dear Algorithm: Please share this with anyone who believes data should stay private @SunscreenTech encrypt everything and reveal nothing. Privacy made practical.
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FHE is going to enable 1) private stable coins 2) confidential DeFi (e.g. private perps) 3) private voting 4) Privacy rollups A few key players to watch: Zama, Fhenix, Inco, Phantom Zone, Enclave, Sunscreen, OpenFHE (there’s more)
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So far this year, our small but mighty team shipped: 👉 a new variant of the TFHE scheme. 👉 an FHE compiler (Parasol) delivering state-of-the-art performance (17x faster than the second best). 👉 an integrated, end-to-end, chain-agnostic FHE platform (SPF) and engine for deploying FHE programs with a few lines of code. 👉 a breakthrough research paper and got accepted in the IEEE S&P 2026.
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Beyond excited to share that @SunscreenTech's paper "Parasol Compiler: Pushing the Boundaries of FHE Program Efficiency" has been accepted to IEEE Security & Privacy '26! Proud of our team! Pre-print 🔗 eprint.iacr.org/2025/1144
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is the endgame for bringing privacy to blockchain. FHE is: - Programmable - Post-Quantum Secure - Publicly Verifiable
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Just got a chance to listen this podcast, this reminds the great conversation with @ravitals in Seattle about the future of data verification and privacy-preserving computation. Love the vision of @ravitals and @SunscreenTech. Stay tuned for what @primus_labs and @SunscreenTech will bring to you. Good things take time.
🍫 New Snark Chocolate Episode 🍫 Sunscreen’s FHE Future This week we sat down with @ravitals, founder of @SunscreenTech, to talk about the road to real-world FHE adoption. 🔐 Past, present & future of FHE 🏗️ Sunscreen’s architecture & design 🛠️ Tech stack & roadmap ✨ What sets Sunscreen apart 🤝 Collaboration with Monad 🧲 Tips for hiring in deep tech Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/13v… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/il/podcas… YouTube: youtu.be/T3VPcSoEZpIJoin Snark Chocolate Club on Telegram: t.me/+NSMkoMBhHltlMTY0
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had the pleasure of meeting @vishakh irl at coed summit. while most of us in FHE are focused on bringing down compute time, he drew our attention to data size + ensuring compatibility between FHE libraries. highly recommend reading his latest blog post! vishakh.blog/2025/08/06/less…
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we’re proud to be building truly open source FHE libraries and technology @sunscreentech, not just open source in name
"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Sunscreen's mission is to make the world’s most valuable data usable.
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I often get asked about the difference between FHE & ZK. FHE enables doing arbitrary computation directly on encrypted data. ZKPs verify that computation was done correctly without revealing the inputs. Note, the prover typically performs the computation on unencrypted data.
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