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Great day visiting Bletchley Park with our RHUL Cyber CDT PhD and Information Security Group, Royal Holloway MSc students!

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: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenlette…

It was great to attend IMACC'23 this week at Royal Holloway! Thanks lizquaglia and IMA for the smooth organisation!

In 2019, we reported several privacy vulnerabilities in the AirDrop protocol to Apple. They remained unfixed. Fast-forward to 2024, Chinese forensic experts actively exploit this to identify senders of "inappropriate information". More details on privatedrop.github.io.

I threw together a quick blog post explaining the recent attack on AirDrop privacy, and how Chinese law enforcement is exploiting it. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/att…

The ISG is looking to strengthen the department in systems/software security ➡️ three new (Senior) Lecturer positions are now advertised online! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx…

Signal is introducing User IDs so you won’t have to hand out your phone number. signal.org/blog/phone-num…

📅 Save the date! London Crypto Day 2024 is happening on Nov 15 in the Enigma Room at The Alan Turing Institute (The Alan Turing Institute). Registration opens in September. More info: sites.google.com/view/london-cr…

Looking forward to discuss unbalanced PSI at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography next Tuesday :) csrc.nist.gov/Events/2024/wp…

🚨 Calling all UK-based PhD applicants! 🚨 We have fully-funded studentships available for our project: "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Social Good." Deadline: 26 Oct. 🗓️ Interested? Email Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad and me to chat! royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/…

📢 Registration is now open for London Crypto Day on 15th Nov 2024 at the Alan Turing Institute! 🗓️ Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/2HNrr8xK8W

That’s a wrap for London Crypto Day 2024! Huge thanks to our incredible speakers, attendees, co-organizer lizquaglia, and our wonderful host, Laura Ball from the The Alan Turing Institute, for making it such a successful event 🎉

We just launched a new Crypto Group website! 🚀 If you're interested in a bit of history, I highly recommend exploring the group's rich legacy here: cryptography.isg.rhul.ac.uk/history.html

Honored to kick off TPMPC 2025 at IISc CSA with my invited talk on "Standardization of MPC". Looking forward to a successful workshop week!

In the D2.1 document you'll find quite a comprehensive overview of MPC implementations. I would argue it has the biggest list of implementation frameworks there is. If yours is missing, let me know and we'll fix it. Read it here: cros.ec.europa.eu/group/46/files…