Andrea Basso 🇺🇦

Postdoc researcher on isogeny-based and post-quantum cryptography at @ IBMResearch🇨🇭

[Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 @andreavbasso]

Had lots of fun working on this project with @MainoLuciano and @isogenies!

We build a brand-new isogeny-based PKE by constructively using the same techniques that enabled the SIDH attacks. The best part? We got to call it FESTA, which is party in Italian! 🎉

[IACR @IACR_News]

#ePrint FESTA: Fast Encryption from Supersingular Torsion Attacks: A Basso, L Maino, G Pope https://t.co/SHn9IrLSXi

[Steve Weis @sweis]

NIST PQ Crypto: Additional Digital Signature Schemes round 2 announced:
https://t.co/IlmGBog39R

[Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin]

🚨 introducing LeOPaRd: more efficient #quantum-safe Oblivious PRF 🚨
- round-optimal, supports verifiability and partial obliviousness
- relies on a new interactive lattice problem, called iMLWER-RU

Full paper: https://t.co/8mBDmBc7Fb

Joint w/ R. Steinfeld, @erkantairi, J. Xu

[Bart Preneel @bpreneel1]

Three decades after Shor's breakthrough paper, NIST has posted the first post-quantum cryptographic FIPS standards
203: ML-KEM https://t.co/DbjNkYmHYV
204: ML-DS https://t.co/86hrYzhrob
205: state-based hash https://t.co/LpOIPI3pBA

[IACR ePrint Updates @Lhree]

[New] Erebor and Durian: Full Anonymous Ring Signatures from Quaternions and Isogenies (Giacomo Borin and Yi-Fu Lai and Antonin Leroux) https://t.co/mlvo6UbCaU

[Dario Fiore @dariofiore0]

Eurocrypt 2025 -- We have updated the website with:
📰Call for papers (Deadline Oct 2)
💡 Call for affiliated events (Deadline Sep 4)
🌍 Venue, travel, and visas info
➡️https://t.co/CesYABxVJH
Madrid🇪🇸 is waiting for you!

[Kevin McCurley @mccurley]

Are you curious where cryptographers work around the world? Here is a plot of the affiliations that people have listed in eprint: https://t.co/bPphlWnAVu I'm guessing that Russia is under-represented in this data set.

[Bas Westerbaan @bwesterb]

We're crowdsourcing a list of mainstream uses of "fancy" cryptography such as OPRFs, blind signatures, SNARKs and ZKP. Basically cryptography beyond symmetric ciphers, hashes, signatures, and KEM/PKE.

https://t.co/HnBYEpMV8a

[asanso @asanso]

accepted paper at #crypto https://t.co/dokOIF19aC

[Benjamin Wesolowski @BenjWeso]

One takeaway from Eurocrypt: the IACR community seems enthusiastic about the idea of a unified submission pipeline for Asiacrypt/Crypto/Eurocrypt

[Benjamin Wesolowski @BenjWeso]

One takeaway from Eurocrypt: the IACR community seems enthusiastic about the idea of a unified submission pipeline for Asiacrypt/Crypto/Eurocrypt

[Giacomo 🪿 @isogenies]

New work on improving SQIsign using two dimensional isogenies. A post-quantum signature scheme with compact public keys, signatures and the fastest verification of isogeny-based protocols so far.

https://t.co/9dXhdSeQ0u

[Joanna Chang @joanna_chang_]

📜Out now @NatureComms !😊

We show that what you learn & how you learn it can lead to important differences in neural activity structure + these differences play an important role in later adaptation https://t.co/j5gLu3TOKg

w/ @mattperich @LeeEugene57 @JAlGallego @ClopathLab 🧵

[Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs]

Chen’s paper has a bug, independently discovered by Hongxun Weng and Thomas Vidick, that he doesn’t know how to fix. If I understand correctly, in its current form the paper doesn’t yield any improvement on prior algorithms.

https://t.co/aZ0hxecjrL

[Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 @andreavbasso]

@SherVn31 The start date is (somewhat) flexible: statring during or after the summer is certainly okay

[Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 @andreavbasso]

Come work with us!

[Kevin McCurley @mccurley]

@LindellYehuda @DGlaucomflecken @IACR_News If we had an open access fee I think it might be $6 to cover costs. 🧐

[Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 @andreavbasso]

@SherVn31 To apply, you can just fill in the form on the job description page. If you have any additional questions, feel free to reach out to either of us

[Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 @andreavbasso]

@ShaskaSr It would be either ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich

[Carsten Baum @crypto_carsten]

This looks serious. Damn serious. Some lattice expert can say something about it?

https://t.co/oEMJSa3RSD

[Nigel Smart @SmartCryptology]

After a long slog, by many, many people, the first issue of the Communications on Cryptology is out.

This is a new Diamond Open Access (free to publish, free to view) journal from the IACR.

https://t.co/GezyiDgbtb