Sofia Celi
@claucece.bsky.social
Proud LatinAmerican. "Legendary quantum lady/cryptographer". Researcher @brave she/they hrpc co-chair @inretafo anti-fraud @w3c @otr_im @LondonU
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Catch up on last weeks Isogeny Club talk! We welcomed Eli Orvis who taught us about abstract isogeny graphs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzcc...
The Isogeny Club #7.4 Ihara zeta functions of abstract isogeny graphs and modular curves
YouTube video by The Isogeny Club
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November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Catch up on last weeks Isogeny Club talk! We welcomed Eli Orvis who taught us about abstract isogeny graphs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzcc...
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The call for talks for CAW 2026 (a workshop affiliated with Eurocrypt) is out!
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The call for talks for CAW 2026 (a workshop affiliated with Eurocrypt) is out!
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
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My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em>
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
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Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
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So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
FEMINIST — Tepski x Tech
Tepski.tech
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
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EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware
EFF has, for many years, raised the alarm about the proliferation of stalkerware—commercially-available apps designed to be installed covertly on another person’s device to exfiltrate data from that
www.eff.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog.
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
1/3
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
1/3
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog.
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
1/3
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
1/3
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Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison
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Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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The Isogeny Club Season 7 starts today! At 5pm CEST, Bruno Sterner will talk about finding large smooth twins from short lattice vectors. More details at isogeny.club
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Isogeny Club Season 7 starts today! At 5pm CEST, Bruno Sterner will talk about finding large smooth twins from short lattice vectors. More details at isogeny.club
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
Woo!! Coral goes to S&P! eprint.iacr.org/2025/1420 Coral is an amazing system to check over ZKP that a document conforms to a grammar (JSON, C, TOML). Super happy with this work and the amazing work of all the co-authors!
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Woo!! Coral goes to S&P! eprint.iacr.org/2025/1420 Coral is an amazing system to check over ZKP that a document conforms to a grammar (JSON, C, TOML). Super happy with this work and the amazing work of all the co-authors!
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a fantastic video about important topics and with a worthy fundraiser, and best of all it has this amazing moment
August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
a fantastic video about important topics and with a worthy fundraiser, and best of all it has this amazing moment
Two super nice things this week!! Thank you, AsiaCCS (really happy there are such things as reviewer's awards, as we need good reviews!) and @iacrcrypto.bsky.social !
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Two super nice things this week!! Thank you, AsiaCCS (really happy there are such things as reviewer's awards, as we need good reviews!) and @iacrcrypto.bsky.social !
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Anyone who has been an IACR member in 2023-2026 should have received a link to respond to a survey about conferences and publishing. So far over 500 people have responded, but it will remain open for responses until Sept 12, 2025. I would also encourage people to use their forum invitations.
International Association for Cryptologic Research
A place to discuss matters related to IACR
discuss.iacr.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Anyone who has been an IACR member in 2023-2026 should have received a link to respond to a survey about conferences and publishing. So far over 500 people have responded, but it will remain open for responses until Sept 12, 2025. I would also encourage people to use their forum invitations.
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11 Sep UK Crypto Day in Manchester: uk-crypto-day.github.io/2025/09/11/u...
Together with @rikkebjerg.bsky.social I'll be talking about our upcoming work with @bedow.bsky.social and Simone Colombo: At-Compromise Security: The Case for Alert Blindness
Together with @rikkebjerg.bsky.social I'll be talking about our upcoming work with @bedow.bsky.social and Simone Colombo: At-Compromise Security: The Case for Alert Blindness
August 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
11 Sep UK Crypto Day in Manchester: uk-crypto-day.github.io/2025/09/11/u...
Together with @rikkebjerg.bsky.social I'll be talking about our upcoming work with @bedow.bsky.social and Simone Colombo: At-Compromise Security: The Case for Alert Blindness
Together with @rikkebjerg.bsky.social I'll be talking about our upcoming work with @bedow.bsky.social and Simone Colombo: At-Compromise Security: The Case for Alert Blindness
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USENIX chair report: "six individuals appear as co-authors on 20 or more submissions, with two authors appearing on 36 and 39 submissions respectively. At such volume, it becomes difficult not to question the nature and depth of the contributions" www.usenix.org/sites/defaul...
www.usenix.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
USENIX chair report: "six individuals appear as co-authors on 20 or more submissions, with two authors appearing on 36 and 39 submissions respectively. At such volume, it becomes difficult not to question the nature and depth of the contributions" www.usenix.org/sites/defaul...
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I just learned that Claus Schnorr passed away last June, aged 81 — a significant loss for the cryptographic community: mittelhessen-gedenkt.de/traueranzeig...
Traueranzeigen von Claus Peter Schnorr | mittelhessen-gedenkt.de
Besuchen Sie die Gedenkseite von Claus Peter Schnorr. Lesen Sie die Traueranzeige und gedenken Sie des Verstorbenen mit einer Kerze oder Kondolenz.
mittelhessen-gedenkt.de
July 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I just learned that Claus Schnorr passed away last June, aged 81 — a significant loss for the cryptographic community: mittelhessen-gedenkt.de/traueranzeig...
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BREAKING: New investigation exposes Microsoft for enabling surveillance + killing of Palestinians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
BREAKING: New investigation exposes Microsoft for enabling surveillance + killing of Palestinians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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We sent a letter to all superintendents in Arkansas warning them not to display the Ten Commandments in schools after a federal judge this week ruled that a state law requiring the displays is “obviously unconstitutional.”
Every school district has an obligation to abide by the First Amendment.
Every school district has an obligation to abide by the First Amendment.
August 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We sent a letter to all superintendents in Arkansas warning them not to display the Ten Commandments in schools after a federal judge this week ruled that a state law requiring the displays is “obviously unconstitutional.”
Every school district has an obligation to abide by the First Amendment.
Every school district has an obligation to abide by the First Amendment.
Proud of this work, and of the amazing work of Eli!
Coral: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge CFG Proofs (Sebastian Angel, Sofía Celi, Elizabeth Margolin, Pratyush Mishra, Martin Sander, Jess Woods) ia.cr/2025/1420
August 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Proud of this work, and of the amazing work of Eli!
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Just as it did with the Apple "backdoor" demand, the UK Government has got itself into a ridiculous mess over age estimation and VPNs. Here's a Govt spokesperson saying that young users must not be encouraged to use VPNs. 1/n
July 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just as it did with the Apple "backdoor" demand, the UK Government has got itself into a ridiculous mess over age estimation and VPNs. Here's a Govt spokesperson saying that young users must not be encouraged to use VPNs. 1/n