I got my Ph.D. at TU/e! Thanks to my supervisors Cryp·tomer | 3MI Labs and Tanja Lange! My thesis: research.tue.nl/en/publication…

Accepted papers are posted and registration is open for PQCrypto 2025 (April 8 - 10 in Taipei, Taiwan) pqcrypto2025.iis.sinica.edu.tw Stipend applications are open till 7 Feb, so get in touch asap if you need financial support to attend.

Deadline for early registration for PQCrypto 2025 is this Fri, 28 Feb. Watch for time zone differences, so better get the registration done now pqcrypto2025.iis.sinica.edu.tw/registration.p…

#award The IACR Fellows for 2025 have just been announced. Congratulations to: Joan Daemen Thomas Johansson Anna Lysyanskaya Pascal Paillier J.R. RAO Alon Rosen Elaine Shi Bo-Yin Yang More info at: iacr.org/fellows/

Just a few days left to apply for the PhD position in symmetric crypto with my colleague Lorenzo Grassi tue.nl/en/working-at-… If the link gets you to the general vacancy page of TU/e, searching for "cryptography" narrows it down to 1 vacancy. Apply _before_ 20-04-2025

Can't wait till 6 June for your next event? We'll host the Crypto Working Group on 23 May in Utrecht, watch eipsi.win.tue.nl/seminars_cwg.h… for more details or register to our mailing list.

Eurocrypt talk today says that in 2^529 operations it can tell that a mceliece348864 public key is a public key. IACR has been refusing to post the Classic McEliece Team response classic.mceliece.org/mceliece-529-2… on eprint (IACR's preprint archive for "any author" to post crypto research).

EDRI is raising an alarm over the EC's plan to issue a technlolgy roadmap "lawful access to encrypted data" during Q2 this year. The same strategy document ProtectEU in other places pushes for privacy and for post-quantum cryptography. linkedin.com/posts/european… Critical to act now!

Program for next Ei/Ψ crypto working group on 23 May is out with talks by Vahid Jahandideh, Jelle Vos, Monika Trimoska, and Thijs Veugen. See eipsi.win.tue.nl/cwg/20250523.t… for titles and abstracts.

🎉 Bart Preneel named ICT Personality of the Year 2025! At the 26th Data News Awards for Excellence, the editorial board honoured Prof. Bart Preneel(head of COSIC) for his outstanding impact on the ICT landscape. 📍 Full interview coming soon in Data News linkedin.com/posts/roularta…

Registration is open eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.h… First batch of invited speakers: Julia Angwin Julia Angwin Chloé Berthélémy EDRi Maarten Hundscheid (Totem Game Dev) Katharina Kohls Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security Savio Sciancalepore TU Eindhoven Floor Terra Floor Privacy Company More to come!

Tentative program for next Friday is up at eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.h… Please register soon so that we can get catering set up

We are aware that the Dutch railways have canceled all domestic trains for this Friday. We''re working on adding some option for remote attendance/talk streaming and will notify here when we have more. We will host the in-person event and there will be food, so do come if you can

We will be streaming talks, incl in-person talks, via our YouTube channel. See eipsi.win.tue.nl/surveillance.h… for the link. To ask questions please reply on mastodon or bluesky to the respective toot for that talk (accounts linked from the event page)

The next two editions of the Crypto Working Group will be on 5 Sep (next Fri) and 28 Nov. Details to come soon at eipsi.win.tue.nl/seminars_cwg.h… Location is as always the Kargadoor in Utrecht.

My colleague, Lorenzo Grassi, has another PhD position open. tue.nl/en/working-at-… Deadline stated is 12 Oct but the position will close as soon as a candidate is found. Starting date no sooner than Mar 2026. Applications must be received via the TU/e page.

For people in Germany there is also the low-effort option of signing a petiton if you want to take action against chat control weact.campact.de/petitions/chat… Running since yesterday and already at more than 200k signatures.