Imagine you receive a large box of numbers meant to serve as a public key for secure communication. The numbers look completely random, the way scrambled data should look if no one can find a pattern. Yet a careful test reveals a subtle internal order. That is the main finding of a recent paper by Ashrujit Ghoshal, Yuval Ishai, Aayush Jain, and Nuozhou Sun titled “Quasipolynomial Cryptanalysis of the McEliece Cryptosystem.” The paper does not open the box or read any of the messages inside i
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Drones have emerged as a significant security concern for US military bases and critical infrastructure. These unmanned systems are typically low-cost, simple to operate, and difficult to detect using traditional air-defense sensors. A single drone can be deployed for surveillance, smuggling, or disruption, creating a scenario where security forces must respond swiftly without overreacting. To address this challenge, the US Army is adopting a new counter-drone platform known as DroneArmor. D
A cross-party group of US lawmakers has introduced the “No Adversarial AI Act,” a bill designed to prohibit federal agencies from using artificial intelligence models developed by companies based in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. The bill mandates that the Federal Acquisition Security Council maintain a regularly updated list of banned AI technologies, with China’s DeepSeek cited as a prime example of the threat. The legislation, sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans, responds to g
