Twinkle, twinkle little star, I wonder what your thresholds are? Our new threshold signature TWINKLE is here! eprint.iacr.org/2023/1482 t<n adaptive corruptions from DDH without pairings or AGM! Joint work with Stefano Tessaro, Renas Bacho, Chenzhi Zhu, and Benedikt Wagner

The program for the 1st Workshop on Cryptography Applied to Transparency Systems (CATS) is available now: catsworkshop.dev/program/ We hope you find the program as exciting as we do, and we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!

Very excited about hosting many distinguished researchers for our upcoming NUS Computing CS Research Week, Jan 10-12, 2024. researchweek.comp.nus.edu.sg The event is public and needs no formal registration.

48 hours into a search for a $95k/year asst. prof. on a 3-year contract: "You can expect the dean and provost to sign off on the job ad within a month. Assuming it conforms to regulations." 48 hours into a search for a $7.75M/year coach on a 7-year contract: "OK here's our guy!"

Very unusual joint report by cybersecurity agencies from 4 countries - ANSSI (FR), BSI (DE), NSNLA (NL) and NCSA (SE) critical of Quantum Key Distribution: only for niche cases and lacks maturity. bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Dow…

ASIACRYPT 2024 still has no webpage, but according to this iacr.org/news/item/22868, their deadline is right in the middle of EUROCRYPT '24. Is this actually correct?

eprint.iacr.org/2024/583.pdf The fun continues.. Omri Shmueli makes a step towards saving the world..

.Mahdi Sedaghat 🐬 wrote a blog post while attending IACR Eurocrypt 2024 in Zurich: "Eurocrypt 2024: Twinkle (A Fully Adaptive Threshold Signature from DDH)". Check it out here: esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/twi…

Pro-tip: Crypto 2024 accepted papers are out, not on Crypto 2024 website but on CryptoDB. iacr.org/cryptodb/data/…

The list of accepted papers, highlight talks and spotlight speakers for ITC 2024 is now online. itcrypto.github.io/2024/2024Accep… itcrypto.github.io/2024/index.html It promises to be an amazing conference, in Stanford University, just before CRYPTO. Looking forward to a big attendance.

Oblivious Issuance of Proofs will be at CRYPTO this year 🎉 eprint.iacr.org/2023/1635 This was joint work with Stefano Tessaro, @ChenziZhu5, and Greg Zaverucha!

As some eager beavers already started asking me about the postdoc market for next year, I wrote a new blog post about the postdoc market. Based mostly on last year's convos with @ShivNadimpalli! kiragoldner.com/blog/on-postdo…

If you use cryptobib, you might wish to know about publish.iacr.org/cryptobib so you can extract just the entries you want.

itcrypto.github.io/2024/2024prog.… Check out the program for ITC 2024. It is pretty awesome, and the conference is at a very convenient location (Stanford University) from August 14-16. Consider attending if you can..

Several people contacted me today because they received a phishing email pretending to come from me and asking them if they could spare me a few minutes to help the IACR board. Please ignore that email. It's a scam!

Watch out - scammers are impersonating IACR president Michel Abdalla asking for help with board duties. Looks like they understand the board roles and where individual cryptographers are based, so it is a bit more sophisticated than the typical scam.

Just defended my thesis! 🥳

Late summer PNW hiking at its best.