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Jonathan Katz

@jon_katz

Chief Scientist / lead cryptographer at Dfns; Professor at University of Maryland

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Congrats to Chelsea Komlo of Dfns and co-authors for receiving Best Early Career Paper Award at Crypto 2023 for their paper "Fully Adaptive Schnorr Threshold Signatures" eprint.iacr.org/2023/445

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4. Takeaways: (1) standard best practices for implementing crypto (including audits) still need to be followed; (2) don't deviate from the published protocol unless you know what you are doing

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Insane that I have a first-degree connection to two Nobel laureates. I was a TA for Bawendi at MIT; Brus was my advisor for 2 years when I was at Columbia. I remember them both as incredibly kind people as well. Congrats to both!

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UMD-MC2 hosting Vadim Lyubashevsky for a week-long course on lattice-based cryptography. Register now! cyber.umd.edu/events/index.p…

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My Coursera cryptography course goes live in about a week. Check it out! (Feedback welcome.) coursera.org/course/cryptog…