Bit of a last-minute announcement: school on isogenies 9 - 13 Feb at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
https://t.co/xZkco8Hhz4
Registration deadline is tomorrow (15 Jan).
Our project doesn't have an account here, so I'm crossposting https://t.co/uV9KFfccy6
Most interesting IMO is D1.3 Hot topics & open problems in PQC .
Link to drafts and disclaimers https://t.co/7uS97XZvqu
Deadlines for PQCrypto2026 are around the corner! Papers must be _registered_ by 31 Oct https://t.co/vYNHc7WFA5 You can still update your submission for another week, with the final submission deadline on 7 Nov. You cannot register new papers during that period. Get yours in now!
For people in Germany there is also the low-effort option of signing a petiton if you want to take action against chat control https://t.co/hRWHBlfVjC
Running since yesterday and already at more than 200k signatures.
If you're good at talking to politicians, contact your representatives, in particular in countries still undecided.
Many don't understand the risks and implications and fall for the emotional arguments. I appreciate the attitude but this exposes us to hacking & mass surveillance
Our "Joint statement of scientists and researchers on the EU Presidency’s new proposal for the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" has reached more than 700 signatures. If you're scientist, consider co-singing. Proposal would be a security nightmare, but many states consider approval
My colleague, Lorenzo Grassi, has another PhD position open. https://t.co/EyFMCydRjP
Deadline stated is 12 Oct but the position will close as soon as a candidate is found. Starting date no sooner than Mar 2026. Applications must be received via the TU/e page.
The next two editions of the Crypto Working Group will be on 5 Sep (next Fri) and 28 Nov. Details to come soon at https://t.co/opM1wOfgu0
Location is as always the Kargadoor in Utrecht.
We will be streaming talks, incl in-person talks, via our YouTube channel. See https://t.co/z7sdmajJKo for the link. To ask questions please reply on mastodon or bluesky to the respective toot for that talk (accounts linked from the event page)
We are aware that the Dutch railways have canceled all domestic trains for this Friday. We''re working on adding some option for remote attendance/talk streaming and will notify here when we have more. We will host the in-person event and there will be food, so do come if you can
Registration is open https://t.co/z7sdmajbUQ
First batch of invited speakers:
Julia Angwin @JuliaAngwin
Chloé Berthélémy @edri
Maarten Hundscheid (Totem Game Dev)
Katharina Kohls @HGI_Bochum
Savio Sciancalepore @TUeindhoven
Floor Terra @floorter Privacy Company
More to come!
🎉 Bart Preneel named ICT Personality of the Year 2025!
At the 26th Data News Awards for Excellence, the editorial board honoured Prof. Bart Preneel(head of COSIC) for his outstanding impact on the ICT landscape.
📍 Full interview coming soon in Data News
https://t.co/xQYPeXfdFE
Program for next Ei/Ψ crypto working group on 23 May is out with talks by Vahid Jahandideh, Jelle Vos, Monika Trimoska, and Thijs Veugen.
See https://t.co/NuaNDoTSh8 for titles and abstracts.
@DGligoroski@hashbreaker I wish it was an April fools joke :-/ but the ProtectEU document links to a report from a High Level Group (on crypto backdoors) that presented just what the ProtectEU document says & gives the same timeline. HLG was mostly law enforcement, as you may imagine
EDRI is raising an alarm over the EC's plan to issue a technlolgy roadmap "lawful access to encrypted data" during Q2 this year. The same strategy document ProtectEU in other places pushes for privacy and for post-quantum cryptography.
https://t.co/EeZVh4d6wG Critical to act now!
Eurocrypt talk today says that in 2^529 operations it can tell that a mceliece348864 public key is a public key. IACR has been refusing to post the Classic McEliece Team response https://t.co/JwwgZ0Vj5w on eprint (IACR's preprint archive for "any author" to post crypto research).
Can't wait till 6 June for your next event? We'll host the Crypto Working Group on 23 May in Utrecht, watch https://t.co/opM1wOfOjy for more details or register to our mailing list.
Next Security in Times of Surveillance will be on 6 June at Eindhoven University of Technology @TUeindhoven
Watch https://t.co/z7sdmajbUQ for more information
#award The IACR Fellows for 2025 have just been announced. Congratulations to:
Joan Daemen
Thomas Johansson
Anna Lysyanskaya
Pascal Paillier
J.R. RAO
Alon Rosen
Elaine Shi
Bo-Yin Yang
More info at: https://t.co/WsgZR1uCh9