# standardization (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover standardization. Page: Feed: --- ## [When geopolitics enters the tech stack](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/when-geopolitics-enters-the-tech) _2026-08-18 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How standards bodies can help companies navigate a world of competing technical and regulatory regimes. ## [Europe’s standards paradox](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/europes-standards-paradox) _2026-08-05 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ National ambition is weakening the coordination that made Europe a global standards power. ## [The Cyprus Commitment, a direction without a destination](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-cyprus-commitment-a-direction) _2026-07-21 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How Europe’s standardization agreement talks about transformation, not about how Europe should use standards to shape markets. ## [When standards go parallel](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/when-standards-go-parallel) _2026-07-09 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Strategic architectures beyond WTO TBT and the Geneva‑based institutions. ## [SMART to 2029, urgency to 2024](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/smart-to-2029-urgency-to-2024) _2026-06-24 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ How a SMART roadmap to 2029 collides with immediate pressures on access, IP and the economics of standards. ## [On hybrid signatures](https://keymaterial.net/2026/06/18/on-hybrid-signatures/) _2026-06-18 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ Introduction It has come to my attention that people are wagering dinner invitations to anyone who can convince me to publicly state my opinions and reasonings on hybrid signatures. So in the interest of not having people starve, here is a blog post on this topic and the recent controversies surrounding it. This is going \[ \] ## [The Unstandardized Digest #8](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-unstandardized-digest-8) _2026-06-15 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ A selection of what I read, watched or listened to recently. ## [So you want to deploy FN-DSA](https://keymaterial.net/2026/05/13/so-you-want-to-deploy-fn-dsa/) _2026-05-13 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ FN-DSA (née Falcon) is a proposed post-quantum signature standard that keeps polarizing engineers. Cryptography engineers on the one hand, tasked with potentially implementing this monstrosity, hate it with a passion. Protocol engineers on the other hand, especially when working with UDP, see a glimmer of hope that they might not have to deal with packet \[ \] ## [The Unstandardized Digest #7](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/the-unstandardized-digest-7) _2026-04-30 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ A selection of what I read, watched or listened to recently. ## [Reflections on business model innovation in standardization](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/reflections-on-business-model-innovation) _2026-04-06 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Why decades of "transformation" left standards bodies financially more fragile than ever, and what they can do about it. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oxnU5G9hagN1) _2026-04-06 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [European standardization and the illusion of invisible power](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/european-standardization-and-the) _2026-03-27 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ When the world is competing to own the rules, invisibility is not a strategy. ## [Why a fragmented world rewrites the rules of standardization](https://www.theunstandardized.com/p/why-a-fragmented-world-rewrites-the) _2026-03-01 · Nicolas Fleury · The Unstandardized_ Possible scenarios and strategies for the sustainability of standards bodies. ## [A very unscientific guide to the security of various PQC algorithms](https://keymaterial.net/2025/12/13/a-very-unscientific-guide-to-the-security-of-various-pqc-algorithms/) _2025-12-13 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ After publishing my series on UOV, one feedback I got was that my blog posts made people feel more confident in the security of the scheme, because at least someone is looking into these things . I don t necessarily know if that is the takeaway I would make from my posts, but it gave me the \[ \] ## [ML-KEM Mythbusting](https://keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/ml-kem-mythbusting/) _2025-11-27 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ What is this? There have been some recent concerns about ML-KEM, NIST s standard for encryption with Post-Quantum Cryptography, related standards of the IETF, and lots of conspiracy theories about malicious actors subverting the standardization process. As someone who has been involved with this standardization process at pretty much every level, here a quick debunking of \[ \] ## [There is no Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman](https://keymaterial.net/2025/05/23/there-is-no-diffie-hellman-but-elliptic-curve-diffie-hellman/) _2025-05-24 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ When I first learned about Diffie-Hellman and especially elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman, I had one rather obvious question: Why elliptic curves? Why use this strange group that seems rather arbitrary, with its third intersection of a line and then reflected? Why not use, say, the Monster Group? Surely a monster is better equipped to guard your \[ \] ## [How not to format a private key](https://keymaterial.net/2025/02/19/how-not-to-format-a-private-key/) _2025-02-19 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ Last time I had an issue with standardization going into the, in my opinion, wrong direction, I wrote a blog post about it. Much to my own surprise, that actually worked, and as a reward you get more blog posts about somewhat convoluted standardization issues. In order to entice you to at least skim the \[ \] ## [Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar, Part III](https://keymaterial.net/2025/01/08/unbalanced-oil-and-vinegar-part-iii/) _2025-01-09 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ In Part I, we looked at the problem we want attackers of UOV to solve. In Part II we had plenty of oil and vinegar, but did not really discussed the whole unbalanced part of the scheme. So in this third part of this three part series, I will discuss why we are using Unbalanced \[ \] ## [Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Part II](https://keymaterial.net/2024/12/30/unbalanced-oil-and-vinegar-part-ii/) _2024-12-30 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ After Part I looked at the hard problem underlying Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar, it is now finally time to talk about the algorithm itself. Verify As with many signature algorithms, looking at the verification routine first is a good idea. The verification algorithm is usually simpler, and gives you an idea of what the signature \[ \] ## [Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar, Part I](https://keymaterial.net/2024/12/24/unbalanced-oil-and-vinegar-part-i/) _2024-12-24 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ Introduction While there are many schemes discussed in the currently ongoing second onramp for PQC signatures, Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar (UOV) is both one of the most serious contenders and also an extremely curious scheme. In this three part blog series, we will take a closer look. In a previous blog post, I looked at \[ \] ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OAV5mmhfYyS0) _2024-12-24 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [HashML-DSA considered harmful](https://keymaterial.net/2024/11/05/hashml-dsa-considered-harmful/) _2024-11-05 · Sophie Schmieg · Key Material_ I mentioned ranted about this topic as a section of a previous blog post (at the very end), but the topic keeps coming up, so I am escalating to a full blog post, since obviously that will help with all these people who are wrong on the internet standardization. The Problem Prehashing is a paradigm \[ \]