# Cybersecurity Company Loses Encryption Key for Internal Election

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cybersecurity-company-loses-encryption-key-for-internal-election/33143
**Category:** News
**Created:** 2025-11-22T19:58:34Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @nateb — 2025-11-22T19:58:34Z

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](https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/cybersecurity-company-loses-encryption-key-for-internal-election)

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## Post 2 by @jonah — 2025-11-22T20:01:03Z



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## Post 3 by @jonah — 2025-11-22T20:27:10Z

A post was split to a new topic: [Expand embedded news posts by default](/t/expand-embedded-news-posts-by-default/33152)

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## Post 4 by @anon42475305 — 2025-11-22T20:24:48Z

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