Brett
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~fbrett/
Brett directs the Crypto and Society Lab (CASL) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research uses tools from cryptography and computer science — including secure computation protocols and blockchain technology — to address large-scale societal challenges around privacy, transparency, and trust.
Posts
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Falcon Signatures in Algorand
In 2025 Algorand implemented post-quantum signatures.
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The AI Layoff Trap
As companies rush to automate, their excitement to cut wages can lead to a prisoner's dilemma, where over-automation causes a collapse in demand
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Markdown is the future
If you're not using Markdown for most tasks, you should be
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We are building a parallel web for AI agents
Major content distributors like Cloudflare are creating Markdown summaries for your agents
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The Efficiency of Post-Quantum Signature Schemes
This post gives basic benchmarks for NIST's 3 Post-Quantum Signature Schemes, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA and FN-DSA
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It takes a lot of tokens to replace a human
How many tokens will we need to replace all white-collar workers?
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NIST's Post-Quantum Signature Standards
NIST's Post-Quantum Signatures