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This is happening all over the world. Students use LLMs to solve projects/handins that teach them the basics of the subject. Then exam/real world happens, which is more than the basics, and either LLMs can't do it or students can't because they haven't learned the basics.

If you've been following the quantum thing, you've heard that *lattice-based crypto* is going to protect us against quantum attack. But what are they? And why are the keys so big? Why do we think they're secure? Christopher Patton wrote a great blog featuring special guest Peter Schwabe

The Trump admin communicates on Signal and added a journalist to a war planning chat group. Despite the obvious trainwreck that this news is (but not surprising), I'd like to thank them all for some extra material I'll teach tomorrow in a course about private communication :)

Rumors have it that this decision is motivated by the uninvited visit of the US Vice President to Greenland to prevent further such actions.

The only good thing coming out of the US this year.

Cool: pqscan[.]io allows you to check whether your website supports post-quantum key agreement. (Examples in thread.)

Wrote today in the The New York Times about the dangers of blurring scholarship and activism.

On my way to Madrid to IACR Eurocrypt 2025. Looking forward to see you all there and to all the nice talks!

Don't forget to submit your most hilarious talks (and of course also musical performances, general announcements or just recent results) to the IACR Eurocrypt Rump Session 2025.

Wie gut das ich ausgewandert bin, Beispiel 5738.

New item on the CV: make a whole academic conference dance the Macarena.

Smart play for the Vatican to go with an American Pope to avoid tariffs

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

It was great fun to give a talk at the V2 Security conference yesterday. Really engaging questions from the audience about how we will get to post-quantum security, in particular with respect to the different recommendations in Europe and abroad.

Save the date! The next NordiCrypt will take place on Monday June 30th in Aarhus. We will start around 10:00. More details soon at sites.google.com/view/nordicryp…

Reminder: Submit your Nordicrypt talk by Friday (June 20)! Register by June 23. Hope to see you in Aarhus!

The program for the next NordiCrypt (30/06/2025) is online sites.google.com/view/nordicryp…