🆙📣The LWE Estimator (led by Martin R. Albrecht), one of the PROMETHEUS project innovations, has been rebooted as Lattice Estimator. More info following this link: martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/lat…

🎉 FHE.org 2022: The 1st Annual Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption is officially affiliated with IACR Eurocrypt. 🔗 fhe.org/conference/fhe… #FullyHomomorphicEncryption #IACR #HE #cryptography #privacy #event

Noch nie wurden weltweit so viele #Pestizide eingesetzt wie heute: Zwischen 1990 und 2017 ist die eingesetzte Pestizidmenge um 80% gestiegen. Heute werden jährlich auf der ganzen Welt etwa 4 Millionen Tonnen in der #Landwirtschaft genutzt. Mehr dazu ➡️ boell.de/de/2022/01/12/…

Really good video about what Zero Knowledge Proofs are :)

Almost every cryptography researcher between today and February 16th.

Really important thread. In the long run, honesty and integrity win. But many people walk away with significant wins in the short term, and that’s really bad for the field.

A nice article about using of cryptanalysis. katelibc.medium.com/hacking-wordle…

"This commit replaces the LFSR of mix_pool_bytes() with a straight-forward cryptographic hash function, BLAKE2s"

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People in Russia protest against Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Say no to #WWIII x.com/ShayanWazir5/s…

I wrote a brief summary of Ward Beullens's Rainbow attack! This is probably the most excited I've ever been reading a paper: priv.pub/posts/rainbow-…

Filed a FOIA request "NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography": muckrock.com/foi/united-sta…

People often ask the question - is 128-bit security enough? Is AES-128 enough for high security applications? In this thread, I’ll do the calculation. I’ll assume that AES should be about 8 times faster than SHA256 in ASIC (this is conservative). 1/n

Practical bruteforce of military grade AES-1024 (2021) [video] media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-r3s…

Turns out: be careful when you write a recommendation letter for security/policy-related jobs. Though the professor is not to blame here. Dutch counter-intelligence did it's job and the spy was uncovered. Still a story to learn, particularly for computer security/crypto folks.

The fourth #fieldsmedal 2022 goes to Maryna Viazovska for a groundbreaking proof in the theory of sphere packings plus.maths.org/content/short-… London Mathematical Society Isaac Newton Institute

Among everything else, it’s especially exciting to see GPV’08-style digital signatures go from theory to practical standard (Falcon). Congratulations to all!

I'll just leave this one here.

IACR's new journal on Communications in Cryptology is now indexed by DBLP... dblp.org/db/journals/ci… Remember this is a Diamond Open Access journal, i.e. no fees to publish and no fees to read.