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Kenny Paterson
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 21d
Nah, I just need more coffee!
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 21d
When I read “was” I feared the worst. Glad to hear Alfred is alive and kicking (and still having impact).
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Sep 1
Catching up on recent posts on the CFRG mailing list.
Two carved wooden heads on a Swiss bridge, both looking startled.
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Aug 2
Good luck - hope everything goes smoothly and the course is a hit!
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 28
I like it! New mascot for the group.
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 28
Do I let this guy stay in the garage or gently remove him to a nice damp bit of garden?
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 26
Curve25519 is a false friend. Also isn’t it “defence” rather than “defense”? 🇬🇧
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 18
Would it be too salty to say how reassuring it is to find so many new experts in quantum computing and post quantum cryptography suddenly popping up over on LinkedIn?
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 17
New reading material dropped.
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Real World Crypto Symposium @rwc.iacr.org · Jul 13
The Call for Contributed Talks is now open for RWC 2026! And the deadline for submissions is now Oct. 10, 2025.
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
RWC 2026 call for papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 10
Reading this gave me a lift - we are rapidly progressing to a carbon-free future, at least outside the US (who are being held back by extremist ideology and power of big oil lobbyists).
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 9
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 9
Wrong pole!
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 9
Hello again from mighty Svalbard, 78 degrees North, 125 days of constant sunlight.
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 8
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 8
Some impressions of Longyearbyen from the last few days.
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 7
It’s nearly midnight in Svalbard, and I’m about to try to give an entertaining yet challenging talk at #ArcticCrypt -wish me luck!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 17
bill this is the kind of mansplaining audacity that’s preserved in museums for future generations to learn from as a cautionary tale

this is mansplaining in the form of a long-term nuclear waste warning message
Bill Mitchell @askbillmitchell.bsky.social - 3h So yes, I do think I have a better insight than the president of the company. I'll wait while you try to remind me that Signal is non-profit, and I retort with something clever like "And how do you developers feed themselves". •72 ₴ 29
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · Jul 6
On Svalbard for #ArcticCrypt2025 - looking forward to a week of daylight, cryptography research and exploration.
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Martin R. Albrecht @malb.bsky.social · Jun 24
Slides of my talk titled "Lattices give us KEMs and FHE, but where are the efficient lattice PETs? -- By Example of (Verifiable) Oblivious PRFs" given at spiqe-workshop.github.io are here: github.com/malb/talks/b...

Thanks @kennyog.bsky.social and @jurajsomorovsky.bsky.social for inviting me.
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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · Jun 6
Reminder that the MSCA postdoctoral program exists. If you have a PhD and want to work in a European lab, you have until September to apply. Just contact them now.

ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · May 16
Thanks. I agree with you about the technical analysis. But the question is: how much should one expect from a free, open source project? Same issues arise around time of Heartbleed. Lots of orgs who had never funded OpenSSL had a lot of negative things to say…
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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · May 16
This blog from HAProxy is pretty brutal about OpenSSL performance and broader management of the OpenSSL project. But then I have to wonder how much funding HAproxy has contributed to OpenSSL over the years?
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Ignacio Cascudo @icascudo.bsky.social · May 8
Thanks to our wonderful organization team and to the over 800 participants (including the affiliated events) that helped making Eurocrypt 2025 a success!

And now I'll go to sleep for a year or two...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · May 7
WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages
The weakness creates the possibility of an insider or hacker adding rogue members.
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