Our group in Tartu (me and Janno Siim and some PhD students) have additional openings for a postdoc and a PhD student; see crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/OpenPosit… (iacr.org/jobs link will hopefully be up in a few days). Apply by email to me

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Huge respect!

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Supra is about to go through it's biggest Public Testnet upgrade ever. Major evolution of Web3 technology.

A computer must be automated, so a world computer (aka blockchain) must have this feature as well! Supra 2.0 puts forward AutoFi..,

Zhongtang Luo Nibesh Shrestha Easwar Vivek will be presenting VITARIT (eprint.iacr.org/2025/174), a fair-exchange protocol for paying for threshold services on Bitcoin (and similar networks). In the UTXO setting, this allows paying only to the required threshold of t + 1 out of the n servers offering a

Pousali Dey will be presenting our paper on Non-interactive ZK at PKC'25. Feel free to check it out. Title: Universally Composable Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge from Sigma Protocols via a New Straight-line Compiler Eprint link: eprint.iacr.org/2024/1713 pkc.iacr.org/2025/program.p…

Overleaf is down close to deadline! Quintessential case of single point of failure. Maybe a decentralized Overleaf is on the card? 🤞🏽

Then the weekend is gone 🥲

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Wow, Oakland in Montreal! 😁

This is great news!

The best way to not leak personal data is for orgs to not have it in the first place. ZK allows KYC/compliance without sharing of sensitive information. Incidents like these will catalyze ZK adoption—privacy is not just ideological but also reduces risk for businesses.

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Excited to share that Jacob from Supra Research will be presenting our work on Verifiable Randomness Services (VRaaS) at IEEE CSF 2025! Key contributions: > First formal security model for blockchain VRaaS > Proves Supra dVRF security in this model > New simplified ideal

Great to see Supra logo :-)

Exciting result from Supra Research Team!

Next 6 months will be exciting!