With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Tom Lehrer wasn't just a satirist or a musician. He as a comedian who could quietly tell a joke and wait more than SIXTY YEARS for the payoff. That's dedication to craft. We lost an icon.

In 2022, a local #alamtg activist named Rasheed Shabazz was asking around on twitter about digitizing meeting minutes and monthly reports from local organizations as part of his ongoing research into the racial history of Alameda. 1/n

quantum agile >> quantum waterfall

quantum random artificial intelligence cryptanalysis

artificial quantum random intelligence

I was literally spinning up LA County as the fires started, and it just finished and pushed today. We'd love someone to dig into fire prevention and land use policy around what happened here

Quick reminder: the Queer in Cryptography conference is being held 6-7 March, 2025, in Rochester! Come for the conference Thursday and Friday, stay for the fantastic city of Rochester! cryptography.lgbt visitrochester.com

Galaxy Brain is excited to announce that we are partnering with @techtonica.bsky.social, a US-based nonprofit helping women and nonbinary adults seeking economic empowerment overcome barriers to technical careers.

My absolutely lukewarm take of the day is that more organizations should hire librarians

Okay, so: the other day I wrote a thread on "you should have rules that ban off-platform harassment". Well, given the latest thread from @safety.bsky.app, I wanted to do a short follow-up to that to talk in more detail about *why* you need policies like that. bsky.app/profile/andr...

*designing cryptographic protocols* yeah nah, feeling pretty chill, gonna get cozy and figure out how to structure this key tree *trying to parse a QR code from a webcam* what the fuck is this black magic, how do people do this

2024 update for my chart on the landscape of quantum computing: sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_land... Not much visible on the chart, but Google's result (the one with the recent press attention) is a pretty big deal

Argh, I am fully awake at 7:00am. 😐 If you are at #asiacrypt2024, please come to my talk at 9:00am in Track 2 on "Robust AE With Committing Security" (w/ Viet Tung Hoang). If you are a keener and want to read the paper first: eprint.iacr.org/2024/1542

#Asiacrypt2024 is almost here. As someone who was born and raised in Kolkata, I decided to provide some unofficial updates/tips and will post them as they come into my mind. Folks, especially who are coming from outside the sub-continent, might find these useful. 1/3

Eyy, I now know everything I needed to know about about the torus. #asiacrypt2024

Today in the US is #SmallBusinessSaturday, a day for folks to use their dollars to support small businesses instead of megacorps. If you're looking for ways to vote with your dollars for the world we want, I run two small businesses that are aligned with the values of folks I see here.

How Bluesky could implement Limited Audiences / Non-Public Content and private, end-to-end encrypted protocol-native DMs using existing cryptography: soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...

This is my new response when my faculty advisor asks how my research project is going.

A celleux qui nous tiennent la main. A celleux qui nous l'ont lâchée, A celleux qui firent nos joies, qu'on aurait aimé voir continuer. 🕯 🫂🏳️‍⚧️✨️ Cœur sur nous aujourd'hui. Une pensée à celleux qui restent. #TDoR

I’m at #CSCW2024, which feels like the right place to use Bluesky for the first time! I’m recruiting PhD students to UW HCDE who want to think about digital safety from a sociotechnical lens.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Estrogen, is in fact, 17β-Estradiol, or as I've recently taken to calling it, 17β plus Estradiol. Estrogen is not a steroid hormone unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning endocrine system made usef

God bless good tests. I forgot that the GCTR component of AES-GCM is not the same as CTR mode (it has a 32-bit counter) and I had used AES-CTR in the no-AES-NI fallback. Thankfully we have *both* a test for counter wrapping, and a framework to test fallback code even if there's hardware support.

As of this morning, @nytguildtech.bsky.social, which represents NYT tech workers, is on strike. Unless it's resolved while today's Wordle is still live, this streak is gone. Here's a 🧵 with info on the picket line and how you can help. PLEASE READ — the rules may not be what you think!

on the internet, everybody knows you’re a dog

Super double triple confirmed:

voice training final boss: karaoke night at the local dive bar

what do you think? did i pull it off?

As a topological mathematician,

At Techaro we have no idea what we are doing and hope that we will just stumble towards success. You may think this is a bad thing for us to admit, but at least we're honest about it.

is there a barkeeper’s girlfriend 😏

Stipend applications for #RealWorldCrypto2025 are now open! These grants support students, early-career researchers, and individuals from underrepresented groups, enabling them to engage with pivotal developments in cryptographic research and applications. rwc.iacr.org/2025/stipend...

Looks like #AceInSTEM hasn't been used as a hashtag yet on Bluesky yet... If you are on the asexual spectrum and work in/study STEM, please say hi and help us find others using the hashtag! Hi I'm Sarah (she/they) and I'm a science communicator in the UK 👋 #AceWeek #AceWeek2024

If you missed my live stream reacting to the final ML-KEM drop, FIPS 203, I've uploaded a tighter edit with a silly thumbnail: youtu.be/oeuM1tLkww4

Robust AE With Committing Security (Viet Tung Hoang, Sanketh Menda) ia.cr/2024/1542

We had an excellent Open Source Cryptography Workshop last Thursday, bringing together developers, maintainers, and users of open source cryptography in Toronto after #RWC2024. Most of the session recordings are now posted, along with photos & slides. See  oscwork.shop/2024/  #OSCW #OSCW2024

Emma Connor and I have been ratcheting the ratchets up to 5! drive.google.com/file/d/1Wr-8...

💎✨ shine bright like a diamond ✨💎 #REALWORLDCRYPTO

Want nonce misuse-resistance, nonce hiding, want to avoid successful decryption under multiple different contexts (K, N, A, CT): context commitment; also want an output not /much/ longer than the message #REALWORLDCRYPTO

Nonces 😭 #REALWORLDCRYPTO

AES-GCM is not enough anymore #REALWORLDCRYPTO

Next up, "Building the Next Generation of AEAD", presented by Sanketh Menda #REALWORLDCRYPTO

@[email protected] provided the idea "join, or die but it's a single-linked list" and I just had to make it

why be nice when you could be Dedekind?

How to murder the productivity of ADD people: call to say you'll be there to deliver a shipment in a couple minutes, never show up, turn off the phone.

There's everything to love in "X-Wing: The Hybrid KEM You’ve Been Looking For" eprint.iacr.org/2024/039 - concrete choices! - strong proofs - easy to implement - good performance - "quantum superiority fighter" \./ /^\

Hey @smartcryptology.bsky.social quick heads up that the TLS certificate on cosic.esat.kuleuven.be expired four days ago.

"You did it. You crazy son of bitch, you did it." www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23...

For the philosophers newly following me because of my MIND paper, here are the footnotes they forced me to remove.