Congrats to Mike Joy - recipient of the Callaghan Medal royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/med… ka mau te wehi

Congratulations Linda Tuhiwai Smith - recipient of the Rutherford Medal - miharo royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/med…

Emad Heydari Beni Yes only requires about O(2n) FAULT TOLERANT qubits to break n-bit RSA. But it is making each qubit fault tolerant which is the problem. That requires quantum error correction, which is expensive (or at least it was last time I read some stuff on this).

It feels very anticlimactic, given that a number of governments have been working for years to stop or slow down this deployment. Universal deployment of end-to-end feels basically unstoppable at this point.

I love this.

For what it's worth, I'll note that this will open up the possibility of gender challenges during competitions, necessitating some kind of gender inspection process which will be extremely intrusive and weaponised against gender non-conforming and non-white women.

Right-wingers finding out that Greenday hates them is like when they found out that Rage Against The Machine hates them, which was like when they found out that Neil Young & Bruce Springsteen hate them, which was like when they found out that their wives & kids hate them, which w

This is a graph of Taxpayers Union income and cash reserves over time. There was a really really big surge of money coming in from 2020. I wonder what the reason was and where the money came from?

SIS estimates have landed in github.com/malb/lattice-e… thanks to Hunter Kippen (who is not on this website) who did this work during his residency with us at SandboxAQ

Just read in the LMS Newsletter: Nelson Stephens and Dominic Welsh have both died. Two mathematicians whose work was crucial to my initial career development. Nelson for being my PhD external examiner and mentor at Cardiff, and Dominic for his lovely book on cryptography

PKC 24 program is up, and registration open! with great papers, awesome invited talks from Aggelos Kiayias and Nadia Heninger, exotic excursion and cruise banquet, and the lovely little logo Willy Susilo, see you in Sydney~ pkc.iacr.org/2024/

While crypto experts are scrutinizing every detail of the new paper, as a precautionary measure we strongly advise everyone to temporarily switch all your digital communications to pigeon post.

sobo Pierre-Luc Daniel J. Bernstein There are alternative proposals for public key encryption which I discuss in that survey (including one I made). But I think it’s fair to say that none of them, isogenies included, has received enough study to have confidence in it.

Tuesday, December 10, University of Auckland "The mathematics of solitaire" Public lecture by Persi Diaconis who is not only a mathematician and statistician but a professional magician Book now to reserve a seat. These are going to go fast. eventbrite.co.nz/e/the-mathemat…

If you are coming to the joint meeting of the New Zealand,  Australian, and American math societies in 9 days, then here is a photo of the conference dinner venue