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FHE.org @fheorg.bsky.social · 1d

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".

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 2d

If you are looking for a present for that cryptographer in your life for Xmas, then here you go....

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

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 2d

Space is limited, and so there is a need to register, with priority going to people from companies which are most likely to benefit from the event.

Register here: coedcon.github.io/registration...

COED Summit

coedcon.github.io

Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 2d

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

COED Industry Day

coedcon.github.io

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 4d

Volume 2 Issue 3 of Communications in Cryptology is now available....

cic.iacr.org/i/2/3

Volume 2, Issue 3

cic.iacr.org

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 6d

Just a few days left....

Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 10d

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

IACR Communications in Cryptology

cic.iacr.org

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Marcus Brinkmann @lambdafu.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 7d

As with last year, students can register for free by emailing [email protected] from their academic email address.

This year there will only be 200 seats available, so reserve them early!

Sponsors can also participate still by emailing with their proposals!

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Fully Homomorphic Encryption

We are a community of researchers and developers interested in advancing homomorphic encryption and other secure computation techniques.

FHE.org

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 10d

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

IACR Communications in Cryptology

cic.iacr.org

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 15d

Personal interests and lack of interest in others of support for the editors

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 16d

What you are seeing is the inevitable result of what I was trying to stop many years ago. Unless we support people standing up for standards then we do not get standards.

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 16d

I have sympathy for the editors.

When IACR eprint editor many many years ago I tried to have a policy of accepting only papers which "looked" like an academic paper.

Got lots of vitriolic complaints from some sections of the community, and no one supported me. So I resigned.

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Belga_English (Belga News Agency) @belgaenglish.bsky.social · 17d

KU Leuven spin-off creates world's first chip for encrypted data processing

A new KU Leuven spin-off says it has achieved a global first: enabling encrypted computer data to be processed without ever being decrypted...

www.belganewsagency.eu

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · 24d

Get your talk proposals in for FHE.org in Taipei next year...

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FHE.org @fheorg.bsky.social · 24d

The Call for Presentations for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, to be held in Taipei in March 2026 is open. Just under 7 weeks left (November 1st) to submit your 2-4 page PDF on your FHE project, use-case, or demo.

#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHEorg2026

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GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · Sep 9

Over 500 cryptographers warn the EU draft “Chat Control” could weaken end‑to‑end encryption. The EU council votes on the Danish text on Sep 12, 2025. https://getnews.me/eu-chat-control-criticized-by-500-cryptographers-over-privacy-risks/ #euchatcontrol #privacy #cryptography

EU Chat Control criticized by 500 cryptographers over privacy risks

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Tjerand Silde @tjesi.bsky.social · Sep 9

The EU Parliament has published a new proposal for Chat Control to mass-surveil all digital communication in Europe. The proposal is ineffective, weakens secure communication, and violates basic human privacy. This must be stopped immediately. #ChatControl
csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

csa-scientist-open-letter.org

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Diego F. Aranha @dfaranha.bsky.social · Sep 9

The EU wants to spend your money to assemble a giant mass surveillance machine with little effect on harm against children. Chat Control is not effective, weakens security for all and does not respect privacy. Contact your EU representatives and let them know.

csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

csa-scientist-open-letter.org

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COSIC @cosic.bsky.social · Sep 9

Check out the new open letter signed by more than 450 scientists who have serious concerns on the latest (July 2025) version of the chat control proposal. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

csa-scientist-open-letter.org

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · Sep 5

Officially old.

@londmathsoc.bsky.social have sent me an email saying I qualify for senior membership.

Down hill from here on in.

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · Sep 2

Video listed as private, cannot view it

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just a flavour:
1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect.
2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.

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THE IRISH TIMES
Forcing companies to create access pathways within the technical standards upon which encryption relies would put all online activities at risk, as those pathways amount to security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by others.
There's a fanciful belief, among some lawmakers, that we can undermine encrypted communications in a secure way: open a little door for just the "good" guys to scurry in, take a peek at what one person is communicating to another, and scurry back out again, without undermining the security of the service for all users.
But cybersecurity experts, technologists and computer scientists across the world have been clear: forcing companies to build backdoor access only for law enforcement is deeply misguided.

THE IRISH TIMES
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As the European Court of Human Rights held last year, weakening encryption by creating backdoors would make it
"technically possible to perform routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal electronic communications.
Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users' electronic communications".
Even Europol and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity agree. They previously conceded that mandatory backdoors or weakening encryption would "increase the attack surface for malicious abuse, which, consequently, would have much wider implications for society". They also questioned the efficacy of such measures: "Moreover, criminals can easily circumvent such weakened mechanisms and make use of

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · Aug 1

Another great video from Oxford Maths dept...

Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Jul 27

You're a 13 year old girl sitting in a maths class thinking 'what has this got to say about my life?'

You get home and say the same to your family who get a bit twitchy because they think a bit of maths might be useful.

Part 2 of our chat with students Ellie Guha and Sienna Jacobs.

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Nigel Smart @smartcryptology.bsky.social · Aug 1

Great video from Oxford Maths showing how Uni maths is different from school maths. Basically maths at Uni is a different subject to that at school. You really need to go back to basics to learn what a number is, and then build up from there.

Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · Jul 30

Remember all those kids who aced maths in school and went on to university to study, shock horror, maths? Well, no doubt they aced it there too because it was just more of the same.

No doubt...