Cybersecurity Company Loses Encryption Key for Internal Election

[nateb (Nathan Bartram)]

The Internal Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) was forced to cancel their annual leadership election after one of the officials permanently lost their encryption key, rendering the results permanently encrypted.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/cybersecurity-company-loses-encryption-key-for-internal-election

[phnx]

The risk of this could have been greatly minimised if they had used a threshold scheme with three of five shares being required.