Slava Gomzin

My Participation at the 15th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Panel

9/30/2024

’m pleased to announce my participation as a speaker at the 15th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum on December 10-11, 2024, in Austin, Texas. I will be part of a panel discussion on “Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Adoption,” where we will discuss the current and future impacts of blockchain technology on financial systems.

During the panel, I’ll share insights from my experience in developing blockchain-based payment solutions and my work in payment security. The discussion will focus on both the challenges and opportunities businesses encounter when adopting these technologies.

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Post-Quantum Payments: Is the Apocalypse Closer Than We Think?

9/5/2024

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RSA Conference Blog just published my essay about post-quantum payments. The article explores the potential threats quantum computing poses to both cryptocurrencies and traditional payment systems, highlighting that while quantum computers aren’t yet capable of breaking current encryption, a breakthrough could destabilize systems relying on public key encryption like RSA and ECC.

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Unpacking Telegram’s Privacy Claims: How Secure Is the Popular Messaging App?

9/3/2024

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Many people in the West might not be familiar with Telegram, a messaging app and social networking platform that’s hugely popular in Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and Asia. It’s known for its focus on privacy and security, at least that’s how they position themselves, but how much of that is true? I’ve been looking into the details, and soon, I’ll be sharing what I’ve found. If you’re curious about digital privacy and secure communication, this might interest you. Stay tuned.

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Quantum cracking machine

8/25/2024

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NIST release of the post quantum cryptographic algorithms is an evidence of possible exponential change in quantum computing. We may face a situation similar to what happened with AI, when no one was expecting the release of ChatGPT with its capabilities. But unlike AI, the first release of quantum cracking machine might me silent, with limited groups trying to break TLS, cryptocurrencies, etc. to get some benefits before the crypto and the private Internet communications are crashing.

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NIST Finalizes First Post-Quantum Encryption Standards: A New Chapter in Cybersecurity

8/20/2024

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Big news from NIST! They’ve just released the first three finalized post-quantum encryption standards, marking a huge step forward in preparing for the future of cybersecurity.

Why does this matter? Quantum computers, when they arrive, will be game-changers in many ways—but they also have the potential to crack the encryption we rely on today. Think of everything from online banking to secure communications; they could all be vulnerable.

The three algorithms they’ve finalized are:

1. Crystals-Kyber: A super-efficient algorithm for public key encryption and key encapsulation.
2. Crystals-Dilithium: This one’s all about digital signatures, offering strong security without sacrificing performance.
3. SPHINCS+: A hash-based signature scheme that’s extremely secure, though a bit bulkier than the others.

It’s a big deal for anyone involved in tech, cybersecurity, or any industry relying on digital security—which is pretty much everyone these days.

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Quantum Computing and Cryptography: The Emerging Threats Highlighted at Black Hat and Defcon 2024

8/13/2024

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There were a lot of interesting talks on various topics at Black Hat and Defcon this year, but I noticed an unexpected (at least for me) trend: an elevated attention to quantum computing and quantum cryptography, or more precisely- post quantum cryptography. This actually might be an indirect indicator of the fact that we are one step closer to the post quantum apocalypse. This is really mind bending, complex topic, which perhaps I am going to review later with more details, but the most important practical outcome is that once quantum computers, which already exists in their premature state, are implemented in full scale, they are going to influence our lives dramatically, and it might happen pretty soon (if not happening already, who knows, big brother won’t tell you). The cyber security and privacy as we know them are about to change, as they must transform fast enough to use quantum resistant algorithms, which is not a trivial but possible task.

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How far are we still from using AI as a personal assistant?

3/25/2023

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Here is the limitation of ChatGPT which shows how far we are still from using AI as a personal assistant. I have got the answer below after several attempts to verify whether ChatGPT checks the context of our previous chats when generating a new answer, using indirect questions. After several misunderstandings and corrections, eventually, we both "gave up" and I asked a direct question and ChatGPT provided a direct answer:

"As an AI language model, I do not have access to a record of your previous questions unless you explicitly refer to them in your current question. Each question you ask is treated as a standalone inquiry, and I provide an answer based on the information provided in that specific question."

But the important question is whether this is a real barrier or artificial one. According to recent Bill Gates' article, it is still a real problem related to the high cost of computational power.

#ai #computing #chatgpt #openai

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A revolutionary tech

3/25/2023

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While we were patiently awaiting a heavily advertised and long promised self driving car from Google, which never happened, these guys were silently working on a revolutionary tech - something that happens only a few times in a century - and successfully delivered it.

The age of ai has begun - by Bill Gates

#google #tech #ai #microsoft #chatgpt #openai

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Good job Forbes...

3/17/2023

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“Stablecoin” USDC isn’t stable anymore

3/13/2023

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Circle, the company behind USDC, has about 8% of its dollar reserves in SVB, the Silicon Valley Bank that collapsed last week. So 1 USDC, which is supposed to be traded for $1 by definition, has been traded for 88 cents last week…

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Author of books Crypto Basics, Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians, Hacking Point of Sale

My Participation at the 15th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Panel

Post-Quantum Payments: Is the Apocalypse Closer Than We Think?

Unpacking Telegram’s Privacy Claims: How Secure Is the Popular Messaging App?

Quantum cracking machine

NIST Finalizes First Post-Quantum Encryption Standards: A New Chapter in Cybersecurity

Quantum Computing and Cryptography: The Emerging Threats Highlighted at Black Hat and Defcon 2024

How far are we still from using AI as a personal assistant?

A revolutionary tech

Good job Forbes...

“Stablecoin” USDC isn’t stable anymore

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