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Nigel Smart
@smartcryptology.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Get your talk proposals in for FHE.org in Taipei next year...
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
It has been a busy two months in COSIC....
- Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar
- Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone
- Battering Ram attack
- Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...
- Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar
- Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone
- Battering Ram attack
- Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...
COSIC Newsletter October-November – COSIC News
www.esat.kuleuven.be
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It has been a busy two months in COSIC....
- Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar
- Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone
- Battering Ram attack
- Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...
- Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar
- Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone
- Battering Ram attack
- Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...
IACR woes even made the BBC news.
But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
The International Association for Cryptologic Research - created to study secure communication - said it was an "honest human mistake."
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
IACR woes even made the BBC news.
But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour.
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour.
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is
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NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
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FHE.org would like to thank Belfort for their sponsorship this year of the 2026 conference.
Sponsorships like Belfort's make it possible to continue providing a high quality conference with great speakers and waive registration fees for all students.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #Belfort
Sponsorships like Belfort's make it possible to continue providing a high quality conference with great speakers and waive registration fees for all students.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #Belfort
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
FHE.org would like to thank Belfort for their sponsorship this year of the 2026 conference.
Sponsorships like Belfort's make it possible to continue providing a high quality conference with great speakers and waive registration fees for all students.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #Belfort
Sponsorships like Belfort's make it possible to continue providing a high quality conference with great speakers and waive registration fees for all students.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #Belfort
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
Don't forget to apply for some of the limited space at the Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day at Bocconi University in Milan on December 12th ....
coedcon.github.io/index.html
There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)
coedcon.github.io/index.html
There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)
COED Industry Day
coedcon.github.io
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Don't forget to apply for some of the limited space at the Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day at Bocconi University in Milan on December 12th ....
coedcon.github.io/index.html
There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)
coedcon.github.io/index.html
There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Trusted Execution Environments are the gift that just keep on giving [for attackers]....
TDX Attack: tee.fail
SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202...
As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".
TDX Attack: tee.fail
SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202...
As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".
TEE.fail: Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
tee.fail
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Trusted Execution Environments are the gift that just keep on giving [for attackers]....
TDX Attack: tee.fail
SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202...
As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".
TDX Attack: tee.fail
SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202...
As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".
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I spent two years building a piece of infrastructure for open access publishing in CS arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424. I've gotten positive feedback from authors, but most are quite ignorant about how publishing works (even in computer science). Thankfully we don't have to accept Microsoft Word.😁
Lowering the Cost of Diamond Open Access Journals
Many scholarly societies face challenges in adapting their publishing to an open access model where neither authors nor readers pay any fees. Some have argued that one of the main barriers is the actu...
arxiv.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I spent two years building a piece of infrastructure for open access publishing in CS arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424. I've gotten positive feedback from authors, but most are quite ignorant about how publishing works (even in computer science). Thankfully we don't have to accept Microsoft Word.😁
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The university email telling me to do mandated cybersecurity training contains all of the warning signs - implied threat; mysterious link to click; sense of urgency - that we are supposed to beware of in phishing emails.
October 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The university email telling me to do mandated cybersecurity training contains all of the warning signs - implied threat; mysterious link to click; sense of urgency - that we are supposed to beware of in phishing emails.
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Reminder: FHE.org 2026 submission deadline is in 10 days!
The deadline to submit your presentation for FHE.org 2026 is fast approaching—less than ten days left — November 1, 2025 (23:59 AoE)!
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026
The deadline to submit your presentation for FHE.org 2026 is fast approaching—less than ten days left — November 1, 2025 (23:59 AoE)!
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026
October 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reminder: FHE.org 2026 submission deadline is in 10 days!
The deadline to submit your presentation for FHE.org 2026 is fast approaching—less than ten days left — November 1, 2025 (23:59 AoE)!
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026
The deadline to submit your presentation for FHE.org 2026 is fast approaching—less than ten days left — November 1, 2025 (23:59 AoE)!
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026
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45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Looks like cryptographers can still safely fall asleep again....
eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945
Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.
eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945
Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.
So about that Quantum Lattice Thing: Rebuttal to "Exact Coset Sampling for Quantum Lattice Algorithms"
In this note we identify major issues with “Exact Coset Sampling for Quantum Lattice Algorithms” by Zhang. The issues include:
• in the first version, the proposed algorithm requires foreknowledge of...
eprint.iacr.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Looks like cryptographers can still safely fall asleep again....
eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945
Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.
eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945
Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.
Just over a week left to submit a 2-4 page talk proposal for the @fheorg.bsky.social conference in Taipei next year...
fhe.org/conferences/...
fhe.org/conferences/...
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
We are a community of researchers and developers interested in advancing homomorphic encryption and other secure computation techniques.
fhe.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Just over a week left to submit a 2-4 page talk proposal for the @fheorg.bsky.social conference in Taipei next year...
fhe.org/conferences/...
fhe.org/conferences/...
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"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"
The politician in South Carolina who has introduced a bill redefining contraception as abortion also wants people who share websites to be charged with aiding and abetting homicide.
October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"
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Join us on Thursday, Oct 23rd at 5PM CEST for an FHE.org meetup with Shane Kosieradzki, Cryptographic Engineer at Crypto Asset Technology Labs, and Hannah Mahon, Research Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute, presenting "Encrypted Matrix Multiplication Using 3-Dimensional Rotations".
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Join us on Thursday, Oct 23rd at 5PM CEST for an FHE.org meetup with Shane Kosieradzki, Cryptographic Engineer at Crypto Asset Technology Labs, and Hannah Mahon, Research Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute, presenting "Encrypted Matrix Multiplication Using 3-Dimensional Rotations".
If you are looking for a present for that cryptographer in your life for Xmas, then here you go....
obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...
obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...
The Enigma touch
Entry page describing the Enigma touch, a replica of the Enigma cryptography machine from World War 2
obsolescence.dev
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you are looking for a present for that cryptographer in your life for Xmas, then here you go....
obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...
obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...
The next COED Industry Day is going to be held in Milan....
coedcon.github.io/index.html
Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama
coedcon.github.io/index.html
Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama
COED Industry Day
coedcon.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The next COED Industry Day is going to be held in Milan....
coedcon.github.io/index.html
Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama
coedcon.github.io/index.html
Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama
Just a few days left....
Under one week left to submit your papers to the next issue of the IACR's Communications in Cryptology...
cic.iacr.org
You know it makes sense
- Fast turnaround
- Diamond Open Access
- No travel to conferences in some god-forsaken location
cic.iacr.org
You know it makes sense
- Fast turnaround
- Diamond Open Access
- No travel to conferences in some god-forsaken location
IACR Communications in Cryptology
cic.iacr.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Just a few days left....
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This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people! rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
RWC 2026 call for papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
October 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people! rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
FHE.org 2026 Taipei Registrations are open!
Registrations are open for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026.
Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...
Registrations are open for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026.
Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
We are a community of researchers and developers interested in advancing homomorphic encryption and other secure computation techniques.
FHE.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
FHE.org 2026 Taipei Registrations are open!
Registrations are open for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026.
Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...
Registrations are open for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026.
Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...