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Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)

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161 points botanica_labs | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.33s | source
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neilv ◴[22 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45672983[source]▶
> FourQ [...] Its name is derived from the four dimensional Gallant–Lambert–Vanstone scalar multiplication,

Funny if that's true.

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tptacek ◴[22 Oct 25 18:25 UTC] No.45673177[source]▶
The backstory on the name is --- I think --- a lot funnier. Read it out loud fast.
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