Benjamin Dowling

Lecturer of Cryptography at King's College London. Professional Protocol Admirer. Views are my own. He/Him.

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

Ad for funded position in Social Foundations of Cryptography

https://t.co/s7K4A1KsiQ

https://t.co/zU857GqAnK

https://t.co/DGkhD9CRKU

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

Excited to announce a funded PhD position analysing the Social Foundations of Cryptography here at King's College London @kclinformatics with me and @martinalbrecht. Applications open now, feel free to reach out for a chat.

https://t.co/cXfcwdPU85

Link in next tweet!

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

@RikkeBjerg wrote an ethnography focused announcement blog post: https://t.co/BeV8UkU6K4 and @martinralbrecht wrote a cryptography focused one: https://t.co/1xGwdB4oau

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

Exciting news! We (@RikkeBjerg, @AndreaMMedrado, @martinralbrecht and myself) are about to start our three-year research project "Social Foundations of Cryptography", funded by the EPSRC. Our website says a bit about what we're trying to do: https://t.co/IrDPXwgUCl

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

We'll have two postdoc positions: one ethnographer (hopefully starting soon) and one cryptographer (starting in about a year). We have details about the ethnography position on our website: https://t.co/pMuEIgPDYZ

[Dennis Jackson @Dennis__Jackson]

https://t.co/Rhp4aSAuG8

[Martin R. Albrecht @martinralbrecht]

I'm looking for a postdoc to work with us on lattice-based cryptography

See https://t.co/dGCHnZwPMf and https://t.co/afMqAM0AIv

Closing date: 31 January, 2 year contract in London, salary £42k to £60k.

Please help me reach potential candidates.

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

At @sheffielduni, I am interested in the security of user privacy and secure messaging, from cryptographic vulnerabilities to laws passed by governments. Read the full piece @ConversationUK:

https://t.co/KtWKLMl928

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

UK's controversial Online Safety Bill (OSB) was recently approved by the House of Lords, representing a clash between government and tech giants over E2E encryption. Critics say it threatens online safety and privacy. I looked through the #OnlineSafetyBill to confirm (a thread).

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

But no amount of time will resolve this conflict. The open letter from cybersecurity experts in the UK is clear: you cannot scan plaintexts without breaking E2EE. And while the UK government has acknowledged this gap, this is not represented in the text of the OSB.

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

The provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill are deeply concerning. I signed the open letter because the text in the proposed bill seeks to undermine the privacy and safety of people using end-to-end encryption. No backdoor is safe: its existence incites its use.

[Martin R. Albrecht @martinralbrecht]

68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety."

Read our letter here: https://t.co/DPHkBowkoQ

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

As a @sheffielduni academic, deeply interested in user privacy, I'd implore users to investigate the information that they're sharing across social media, and other infosec academics to verify that these applications adhere to the policies that they provide.

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

Is TikTok safe? That’s the question many are asking after Cabinet Office minister @OliverDowden banned the social media application on government issued devices with immediate effect. (a thread).

[Benjamin Dowling @DowlingBJ]

Read the full piece @ConversationUK:: https://t.co/Z07SbBGpMI