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RWC 2025 is now officially open for submissions for contributed talks! rwc.iacr.org/2025/contribut…

RWC 2025 in Sofia is going to be 🔥 I'm excited to be the co-chair (along with Martin R. Albrecht) of the program committee this year. We have an amazing group of reviewers this year, and we're looking forward to reading the strongest batch of talk submissions yet.

🤓 Just released the full (not truncated) slides from my DEF CON presentation on the XZ backdoor! I think this is the most condensed (and digest) version of this crazy story! 🤯 Hope you'll find it useful! 👇 speakerdeck.com/fr0gger/the-xz…

Our paper (with Kamil Doruk Gur) "Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions from Lattices: Practical-ish and Thresholdisable" is out on eprint and Doruk will present it at Asiacrypt 2024. Here's my summary: martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2024/09/21/ver…

My department is recruiting two lecturers (~ assistant professors) kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096025-le… Cryptography is not high on the list of priorities for these ones, though.

🚨 introducing LeOPaRd: more efficient #quantum-safe Oblivious PRF 🚨 - round-optimal, supports verifiability and partial obliviousness - relies on a new interactive lattice problem, called iMLWER-RU Full paper: eprint.iacr.org/2024/1615.pdf Joint w/ R. Steinfeld, Erkan Tairi, J. Xu

id.erudit.org/iderudit/11122… "Pred-Pol-Pov: Visibility, Data Flows, and the Predictive Policing of Poverty" featured in Surveillance and Society Vol 22 no2 is a vital read. We are campaigning with other grassroots organisations to challenge the tech's use. #AutomatedInjustice

Spec-o-Scope: Cache Probing at Cache Speed - Exploiting microarchitectural weird gates for cache attacks with measurement time of only 5 cycles! Congratulations to my student Gal Horowitz for this great work and a distinguish paper award at ACM CCS 2024! Joint work with Yuval Yarom.

Big announcement: The next edition of The Joy of Cryptography will be published by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social!

The deadline for getting talk proposals in for Real World Crypto 2025 is about two weeks away... rwc.iacr.org/2025/contribut… Talk proposals are short, so there is no excuse in not putting in a bid to talk about your fave applied crypto thing from the last year.

A “Nation investigation finds that a little-known British software company embedded in Safaricom’s internal systems a data management system that allows Kenya’s security services virtually unrestricted real-time access to Kenyans’ call data” 🤔 nation.africa/kenya/news/exc…

"Given the Kenyan authorities’ record of disappearing and murdering suspects, such a predictive policing and profiling system raises serious human rights concerns."

Here are the slides for my talk on Adventures in SIS with Hints, given at the Emerging Topics in Design and Cryptanalysis of Post-Quantum Schemes workshop at IHP, Paris. github.com/malb/talks/blo… indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/5777/ SIS with Hints Zoo is here: malb.io/sis-with-hints…

Reminder, you must register your Real World Crypto 2025 submission by Friday AoE to have it considered, but you can finalise it until Monday (not AoE!), see submit.iacr.org/rwc2025/deadli… We hear there's a competing S&P deadline and we're nice like that. Real World Crypto Nick Sullivan

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Today is the last day for submissions to RWC 2025!

We got a PhD Position in Lattice-Based Cryptography at King's College London Cybersecurity @ KCL Informatics KCL Informatics martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/phd… cryptographers.kcl.ac.uk

Khanh and Eamonn are organising UK Crypto Day on 20 February at King's College London. Registration is free (and open) but required: uk-crypto-day.github.io/2025/02/20/uk-… Help us spread the word and see you there.

Excited to announce a funded PhD position analysing the Social Foundations of Cryptography here at King's College London KCL Informatics with me and Martin Albrecht. Applications open now, feel free to reach out for a chat. …foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io Link in next tweet!

Come work with the rather excellent Benjamin Dowling (and also me)