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The Crypto-V Alliance today announced the launch of its official website at https://crypto-v.org, providing a central resource for professionals, researchers, and organizations involved in cryptographic assurance and cybersecurity.
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The Crypto-V Alliance is a registered nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cryptographic assurance through validation, education, research, and collaboration. The Alliance brings together experts from academia, industry, government, accredited testing laboratories, certification bodies, and the broader cybersecurity community to promote the understanding, implementation, validation, and deployment of trustworthy cryptographic technologies.
The website serves as the primary hub for information about the Alliance's initiatives, educational resources, and events, including its inaugural conference, FIPS 'n' Chips, which will take place October 26-27, 2026, at The University of Texas at Austin.
FIPS 'n' Chips is a two-day conference focused on cryptographic module validation and the technologies, standards, testing methodologies, and certification processes that underpin trusted cryptographic modules. The conference will bring together leading experts from academia, industry, government, testing laboratories, and certification bodies to discuss the evolving landscape of cryptographic assurance.
The Alliance also announced that the Call for Presentations for FIPS 'n' Chips remains open through August 1, 2026. Researchers, practitioners, and industry experts are encouraged to submit presentation proposals for consideration.
Presentation proposals can be submitted at: https://crypto-v.org/fnc2026/call-for-presentations/
The conference comes at an especially significant time for the cybersecurity community. Executive Order 14412, issued in June 2026, specifically references the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), FIPS 140-3, and the importance of deploying FIPS-validated cryptographic products throughout the federal government. These developments underscore the growing importance of cryptographic validation and assurance in protecting critical systems and infrastructure.
More information about the Executive Order is available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/
In conjunction with the conference, the companion book, Tasting Cryptography: FIPS 'n' Chips, is now available for pre-order through major booksellers, including Amazon. The book provides a practical guide to cryptographic standards, cryptographic module validation, testing methodologies, implementation challenges, and industry best practices, making it a valuable resource for engineers, developers, validators, and security professionals.
For more information about the Crypto-V Alliance, visit: https://crypto-v.org
About the Crypto-V Alliance
The Crypto-V Alliance is a registered nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cryptographic assurance through validation, education, research, and collaboration. By bringing together stakeholders from academia, industry, government, testing laboratories, certification bodies, and the cybersecurity community, the Alliance promotes the development, understanding, validation, and deployment of trustworthy cryptographic technologies.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he was trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues.
Dan Sohail, 36, was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court by a judge who declined a recommendation by prosecutors that he force Sohail to remain behind bars for another eight months. The sentence clears the way for the New Jersey man, who has already spent six months in detention, to be released in about a week.
Prosecutors had sought a stiffer sentence as a wider warning to those who might attack Jewish interests amid a dramatic rise in hate crimes against the Jewish population.
Judge Eric N. Vitaliano said he was "somewhat saddened" to see that the Justice Department wanted him to be influenced at sentencing by a mistaken initial impression among the wider public that the Jan. 28 attack was a hate crime.
No one was injured when Sohail drove his car into the Chabad Headquarters' side entrance five times, knocking the door off its hinges and destroying his car's front bumper. Before he drove toward the building, he waived passersby away, a fact the judge mentioned at sentencing as he ordered him to pay $20,000 restitution.
The complex at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn includes a synagogue and offices, and was bustling with people at the time, authorities there said.
Prosecutors in their arguments prior to sentencing noted that “a staggering” 80 of 146 hate crime incidents across New York City since the start of the year were based on crimes against Jews and Jewish institutions.
Vitaliano said the government's argument for a stiff sentence to send a deterrent message to the general public was in part based on the fact that the attack was initially cast as an “I-hate-the-Jews crime, or, worse, an act-of-terrorism crime.”
But he noted that federal prosecutors ultimately charged the Carteret, New Jersey, man with intentionally damaging religious property and Sohail pleaded guilty in mid-May.
The judge cited a psychiatric report he reviewed and said Sohail's mental health challenges “played an important role” in his decision-making.
“This is a sad tale,” Vitaliano said.
Defense attorney Mia Eisner-Grynberg told the judge in court papers prior to the sentencing that Sohail was battling depression and post-traumatic stress disorder after a traumatizing childhood when he carried out the attack even as he “desperately sought belonging and understanding through his exploration of Judaism.”
She said Sohail attended the Chabad he eventually attacked and “found the rabbinical students there warm and welcoming.”
Eisner Grynberg said Sohail “danced with them” and followed their instructions to visit Israel, but he became erratic and extremely anxious after he returned to the United States and was “begging” members of the Chabad to assist him.
Driving the car into the building, she said, was “an irrational cry for help.”
Sohail did not speak at sentencing, but he thanked the judge at the end of the proceeding.
The crash occurred on the 75th anniversary of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson becoming the leader of the Lubavitch movement and prompted immediate concern in the city. Schneerson died in 1994, but remains a revered figure globally. There has been a near-constant police presence around the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters for years.
The site was at the epicenter of the Crown Heights riots in 1991, when Black residents of the neighborhood attacked Jews after a child was killed by a car traveling in Schneerson’s motorcade. In 2014, a disturbed man entered the synagogue and stabbed a rabbinical student, wounding him, before being shot dead by police.
FILE - People clean up after a car slammed into the entrance of the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, Jan. 29, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
