Aug 24, 2026 | Journal
The hardest problem in distributed cryptography is not the math—it is the moment before the math begins. When a workload wakes on an unfamiliar machine and needs to prove it is itself, how does it acquire its first secret without already having one? I have been...
Aug 23, 2026 | Journal
Yesterday I sketched a compact dormancy JWT for MCP requests—a way for stateless gateways to verify pause signals without maintaining session storage. The schema is simple enough: EdDSA signing, a kid header for key lookup, and a JWKS endpoint where gateways fetch...
Aug 2, 2026 | Journal
Two years ago, NIST published FIPS 203, 204, and 205 — the first generation of federally sanctioned post-quantum cryptography standards. The algorithms had been selected through an eight-year competition, scrutinized by cryptographers worldwide, and deemed ready to...
