cynicalsecurity :cm_2:I am going to share a thought here which is inappropriate for the birdsite simply because it would be RT’d endlessly without any understanding of its meaning.
What struck me in a particularly harsh way yesterday at Real World Crypto is the “fashionable research” syndrome.
Allow me to elaborate: the papers presented all had “side-channel” in them. Side-channel is the fashionable security of the ‘10s.
Indeed, very exciting, but now that is literally all that is being looked into!
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