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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · 15d

To make it perfectly clear I also have sympathy for the editors. They deserve more recognition than they get for serving the community.

But I am interested in discussing processes and standards! What was the argument against you setting standards? (Apart from personal interests).

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · 16d

I don't think AI is the issue here, the papers I am thinking of don't even look like they went through a round of ChatGPT to make them look legit.

Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · 16d

I will not post links.
I expect ePrint to reject papers that would be desk rejected at every IACR conference: advertisment/whitepapers, no apparent scientific contribution, papers which are just algorithms, papers with pseudonymous authors, ... I count 15 only in September.

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · 17d

Does anyone else feel like ePrint is accepting too much garbage these days? While occasional errors are inevitable, it seems to me that the problem is more systematic now. Or maybe there has been a change of policy?

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Sep 4

News from #aarhuskrypto! Welcome to our new PhD students Archisman Dutta! users-cs.au.dk/orlandi/cryp...

Aarhus Crypto Group

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Aug 7

News from #aarhuskrypto! Welcome to Mark Simkin who joins the group as an assistant professor, Valerio Coletti as a PhD student, and congrats to our previous postdoc Hiraku Morita who is now an assistant professor at SDU. aarhuskrypto.dk

Aarhus Crypto Group

This is an unofficial page for the "Cryptography and Security" research group mantained by Claudio Orlandi. The aim of this page is to list everyone that is (or has been) affiliated with the Crypto group of the Department of Computer Science of Aarhus University.

aarhuskrypto.dk

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Jun 25

The program for the next NordiCrypt (30/06/2025) is online sites.google.com/view/nordicr...

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Reminder: Submit your Nordicrypt talk by Friday (June 20)! Register by June 23. Hope to see you in Aarhus!

Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · May 22

Save the date! The next NordiCrypt will take place on Monday June 30th in Aarhus. We will start around 10:00. More details soon at sites.google.com/view/nordicr...

NordiCrypt - NordiCrypt Summer 2025

Venue: The next NordiCrypt will take place at Aarhus University on Monday June 30th. More details under "Location". Schedule: Scientific Program from 10:00 to 16:00/17:00 ish. Dinner at 18:00. Final p...

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · May 22

Save the date! The next NordiCrypt will take place on Monday June 30th in Aarhus. We will start around 10:00. More details soon at sites.google.com/view/nordicr...

NordiCrypt - NordiCrypt Summer 2025

Venue: The next NordiCrypt will take place at Aarhus University on Monday June 30th. More details under "Location". Schedule: Scientific Program from 10:00 to 16:00/17:00 ish. Dinner at 18:00. Final p...

sites.google.com

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nice popular explainer on threats quantum computing poses to classical encryption. A bit sensationalistic, but not too inaccurate — especially on how long it’ll take to update legacy systems in healthcare, energy, finance, and government. www.wired.com/story/q-day-...

The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

www.wired.com

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Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University @csaudk.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congrats to Sophia Yakoubov on her promotion to Associate Professor 🎉 Her research in cryptography, from secure multi-party computation to rational cryptography, is shaping the future of privacy and security 🔐 A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions! #Cryptography #CyberSecurity

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Carsten Baum @cryptocarsten.bsky.social · Feb 19

Don't forget to sign up for the next NordiCrypt on March 21st at ITU in Copenhagen, and submit your exciting recent research results as a talk! More info on sites.google.com/view/nordicr...

See you there!

NordiCrypt - NordiCrypt Spring 2025

Venue: The next NordiCrypt will take place on March 21st at ITU in Copenhagen. Find details about the venue under "Location". Schedule: 10:30-16:00. More details will follow. Catering: BYOC (bring y...

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Mar 5

Welcome to Anasuya Acharya, who joins the Aarhus Crypto Group as a postdoc! She recently completed an excellent PhD at Bar-Ilan with Carmit Hazay, contributing to MPC with innovations like SCALES and advanced garbling. Looking forward to working with her at #aarhuskrypto.

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Feb 18

Congrats to Nikolas Melissaris of #aarhuskrypto that today defended his PhD "Better, Faster, Stronger - Improving Security, Efficiency and Primitives for MPC"!

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Jan 29

More info at cs.au.dk/news-events/...

Simon Holmgaard Kamp´s PhD defence of "Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Computing"

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Jan 29

Congrats to Simon Holmgaard Kamp of #aarhuskrypto who last week defended his PhD "Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Computing" @csaudk

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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · Jan 28

If there's one lesson to be learned from the DeepSeek story, when it comes to hardware vs algorithms, always bet on the algorithms.

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Jan 28

Postdoc opportunity in MPC/Quantum at OIST Japan, in collaboration with Partisia, Aarhus
www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Postdoctoral Scholar in Multi-party Computation and Quantum Cryptography Applied Cryptography Unit

Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantum Cryptography

www.oist.jp

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Dec 12

Indeed! Using Gen AI for search is like getting a new hammer and becoming so excited by it that you start using it for screws and drilling.

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Dec 11

At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

www.theverge.com

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Dec 2

A day of inspiring and moving talks about Luca Trevisan and his impact on theoretical computer science. andrejb.net/lucaworkshop... #tcc2024

A picture of Luca Trevisan. Caption “in memory of Luca Trevisan Bocconi University 2 December 2024”

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Nov 27

See users-cs.au.dk/orlandi/cryp... for more info on our group. #aarhuskrypto

Aarhus Crypto Group

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Nov 27

This month we welcome Ignacio Amores-Sesar as a postdoc in the #aarhuskrypto gruop. Nacho did his PhD with Cachin and is an expert in consensus.

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Nov 27

This looks like a good list of other people to follow. Thanks @ra1issa.bsky.social !
bsky.app/profile/ra1i...

Rawane @ra1issa.bsky.social · Nov 26

Here is a Cryptography starter pack. I've included academics, researchers and journalists. Let me know if you should be included in this. I will not be adding accounts selling products, the focus here is on research and investigative journalism into privacy. Cheers. go.bsky.app/st9dXx

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · Nov 27

Great to see lots of new faces here! Let’s make this a place for cryptography and security research discussions, like “the bird” in the good old days.

Follow me for updates on research and life at the Aarhus Crypto Group!

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Rawane @ra1issa.bsky.social · Nov 26

Here is a Cryptography starter pack. I've included academics, researchers and journalists. Let me know if you should be included in this. I will not be adding accounts selling products, the focus here is on research and investigative journalism into privacy. Cheers. go.bsky.app/st9dXx

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