@JoshuaWBaron

Former NSC, DARPA, RAND. All opinions are mine alone. Often distributed, rarely succinct.

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Joined April 2016
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Partha@iamParthaSGOct 22
Mogged arxiv.org/abs/2610.27918
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@ns123abcOct 22
What's your private key? 1? >...what? No? 2? >It's 384 bits you dumbass. That's 35 orders of magnitude larger than the estimated number of atoms in the known universe. ...3? >[visibly sweating] Th-this is ridiculous...
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Replying to @DARPA
@DARPA Young Faculty Award call is out! darpa.mil/work-with-us/commu…
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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What a creative way to celebrate cybersecurity awareness month
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Zlatko Minev@zlatko_minevOct 19
Chemistry, quantum materials, nuclear matter, linear algebra: DOE's eight priority applications, where a fault-tolerant quantum computer should first earn its keep. energy.gov/science/articles/…

DOE Announces Science Applications for Quantum Computing

Key scientific utility problems will guide Quantum Genesis’s goal of developing fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers.

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Steve Weis@sweisOct 16
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

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American quantum innovators, are you up for the challenge? The Challenge: demonstrate fault-tolerant quantum computers with at least 100 logical qubits. The Deadline: October 19. Apply for @ENERGY’s Quantum Genesis Q Competition: bit.ly/4j858Bs
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To leverage quantum computing's potential, @ENERGY announced 8 key aspects of the Quantum Computing National Challenges. These questions will guide the Quantum Genesis Mission's goal of developing fault-tolerant, scientifically-relevant quantum computers. energy.gov/science/articles/…
The Quantum Genesis logo, which is a sphere with two radius lines running from the center to the edge

ALT The Quantum Genesis logo, which is a sphere with two radius lines running from the center to the edge

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Chris Peikert@ChrisPeikertOct 9
This is what I have been telling everyone who will listen. The most valuable thing the frontier labs can now do for crypto (and math more broadly) is publish their *negative* results. What ideas they tried, how much compute they used, and what obstacles they found.
Matthew Green
@matthew_d_greenOct 9
Replying to @matthew_d_green
And specifically for cryptanalysts who are working with models and for the labs: Folks, what we need right now are *negative* results. Silence is the worst thing you could be publishing.
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Darío Gil
@ScienceUnderSecOct 8
The real test of quantum computing is what it can make possible for science. @ENERGY’s 8 new Quantum Genesis Priority Applications will help us measure progress against real scientific problems and guide our work through Quantum Genesis. Read more: energy.gov/science/articles/…
The image features the logo of Genesis Mission and the U.S. Department of Energy at the top. Below, the text reads "Quantum Genesis Priority Applications" alongside a series of black curved lines creating a concentric pattern on a white background.

ALT The image features the logo of Genesis Mission and the U.S. Department of Energy at the top. Below, the text reads "Quantum Genesis Priority Applications" alongside a series of black curved lines creating a concentric pattern on a white background.

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DoW R&E is taking aggressive steps to keep the US and our military at the bleeding edge of quantum computation technologies.
Department of War CTO
@DoWCTOOct 8

Department of War Announces $350 Million in Quantum Computing Initiatives

Article · @DoWCTO
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This is incredible
OpenAI
@OpenAIOct 6
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math

GitHub - openai/math

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
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IARPA
@IARPAnewsOct 1
Today IARPA celebrates its 19th anniversary! Since 2007, IARPA has been committed to driving technology breakthroughs that deliver state-of-the-art capabilities and operational advantage to the Intelligence Community. To learn more about IARPA, visit our website: bit.ly/4xT0nPJ
🤖 Made with AI
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New Jersey
@NJGovSep 28
we just want to talk
Peter Hamby
@PeterHambySep 25
The public needs your help in identifying the NYT staffer who vetoed The Sopranos because it started in 1999
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arXiv.org@arxivSep 23
arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/ar…
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If I am unusual and outstanding would that suffice?
Shawn G. Chittle 🎃👻
@ShawnChittleSep 23
Federal Agencies can now award up to $25,000 cash to an employee who is "highly exceptional and unusually outstanding.”
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We are living in interesting times in Cryptography: McEliece security being reduced drastically, new records in RSA factoring (saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.htm…) showing attacks on RSA-1024 to be practical, a concrete attack on Chaum's blind signatures (github.com/ucsd-hacc/NSNFSSS…),
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An easy and meaningful fast for those who observe it. Gmar v'Chatimah Tovah
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The bots and I made a little thing for my cryptography class: the one-way function transform lab. Interactively write security proofs (reductions + analysis) and attacks, both correct and wrong, for a variety of natural function transforms. web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert…
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