1/ Excited, but frankly quite worried, about a new work with the wonderful 🏴 levochka.eth 🏴 💙💛🇮🇱☀️🦁🗡️ and Dmitry Khovratovich: ia.cr/2025/118 We break soundness of a standard protocol (essentially commit to witness and run GKR) by constructing a circuit for which we can prove a false statement.

🚨 APPLE WITHDRAWS ENCRYPTION TECH FROM UK 🚨 The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. UK citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data falling into the hands of criminals and predators. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Very concerning! bbc.com/news/articles/…

“Use Signal.” —@ElonMusk A letter from Signal President Meredith Whittaker, not yet published: "Apple's removal of vital cybersecurity protections in the UK functionally amounts to a government mandated backdoor. All while creating a playbook for authoritarian regimes. People

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…

Join us next week on Apr 3th at 2PM CEST for an FHE.org meetup with Daniele Micciancio, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, presenting "Bit Security: Optimal Adversaries, Equivalence Results, and a Toolbox for

And now in the Financial Times: "We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security. The argument that weakening encryption will make any of us safer is as

Also #Switzerland, once known for its strong privacy protections, is considering undermining #encryption and online anonymity. I spoke with Nym COO Alexis Roussel to know what's at stake and how the Swiss privacy tech industry plans to fight back techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privac…

A new strongly poly-time algo for negative-weight shortest paths, O~(m sqrt(n)) time, by my colleague Satish Rao. This is the same problem Bellman-Ford, which we teach to undergrads, solved in O(mn) 70 yrs ago. Just 13 pgs! (*puts on todo list to read*) arxiv.org/abs/2503.22613

#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/

It is insane how scary the threat models of encrypted messaging apps providers are.

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against the notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Congratulations to WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop. Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats. signal.org/blog/signal-do…

Aligned “A word of a Gentleman is better than a proof, but since you are not a Gentleman – please provide a proof.” - Leonid A. Levin (1986)

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, no surveillance ads—whatever the rest of the industry does. We lead we don’t follow❤️

Austria is about to legalize state hacking of encrypted chats: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. The law would let police plant spyware (called source TKÜ) directly on your phone, bypassing encryption entirely...

Who would have thought?

My ISP has decided to block access to VPN sites. I’m so happy! Thanks for keeping me save!!

🚨 Stop Chat Control! 🚨 The EU Council wants all your messages to be read by ominous AI. But government and military accounts will be exempt. Why? For security. 😤 Vote: October 14. Key meeting: September 12. 📢 Act now! We've got two months to stop Chat Control: