Highy recommended pre-reading for people who are coming to Future Cryptography! futurecryptography.eu

One of the first chances to hear about the work towards Estonian Post-Quantum Cryptography roadmap. Registration at: qprep.eu/webinars/

"Universally Composable Server-Supported Signatures for Smartphones" just got published at CiC Volume 3, Issue 1 (cic.iacr.org/p/3/1/13)! In this paper, my colleagues, Jelizaveta Vakarjuk Peeter Laud, and I aimed to prove security of server-supported signing in UC.

Future Cryptography is coming again, with Zero Knowledge proofs for wallets, voting, location proofs and more! Registration is open now. futurecryptography.eu

So I may now proudly tell that I contributed in a making of the boardgame 😅 You could follow updates (though somewhat slow) on Instagram - www.instagram.com/post_quantum...

Cybernetica and the OpenSSL Foundation are making a board game promoting research and transition to post-quantum cryptography! openssl.foundation/news/post-qu...

Post from Liina at Cybernetica in the OECD blog, on cybersecurity in SMEs. oecdcogito.blog/2026/03/27/h...

We've felt that internet voting gets a bit too much attention in academic research. So we continue doing cool things with/to it. New paper, something completely different. Anette Habanen, Jan Willemson, Sven Laur Utilising Video Deepfakes for Paper Voting Privacy Defence doi.org/10.1049/ise2...

Estonian municipalities are not at all doing well with digital sovereignty. Most have Microsoft e-mail. livenson.github.io/mxmap/

Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we! Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Governments worldwide turn to age-based access control to Internet services to protect children. More than 370 scientists call for a moratorium until there is a good understanding of their feasibility, effectiveness, and societal impact: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...

Instant pre-order, new book coming out from Cindy Cohn. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

I just have to ask ... is this the pinnacle of papers breaking RSA with a QC for Q1 2026? arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11457

I'm not sure it's an awesome idea to go while(true): ai_agent.doSomethingWith(all_my_credentials) But here we are.

Sirbi laureaat 2025 on teiste seas ka Tanel Mällo, kes kirjutas viieosalise artiklite sarja "Inimene masina ees". Soovitan. www.sirp.ee/sirbi-laurea...

2026 will bring more blockchain/quantum/AI scams, hacks, overvaluations, bankruptcies; VC psyops, trolls and bots, paid articles and endorsements. Meanwhile there wont be no... - "AGI" - useful/practical quantum computers - meaningful blockchain use beyond tokenization Like the past 10 years.

Mis on tehisintellekti kallutatus? Kuidas sellega seotud ohte kahandada? Cybernetica koostas riskianalüüsi töövahendi, mis on lihtne ja näidetega. Juhend www.volinik.ee/volinik-live... Tööleht: www.volinik.ee/volinik-live... Metoodika: www.volinik.ee/volinik-live...

You can personally do things to keep your skills and wits with AI. www.compute.dtu.dk/newsarchive/...

Why are AI systems biased? - a new podcast episode from Cybernetica. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXHw...

In the end, Europe will be made better by people like Eduardo. cyber.ee/resources/ne...

Don't forget to apply for some of the limited space at the Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day at Bocconi University in Milan on December 12th .... coedcon.github.io/index.html There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)

Logic and trust: Constructive reasoning cyber.ee/resources/st...

Cybersecurity protip from Digital Tech Summit in Copenhagen.

We are looking for a cybersecurity professor to strengthen Estonia's existing expertise. We are looking for an ambitious researcher (with a steady presence at big four security conferences) with demonstrated leadership skills who can build a larger team. iacr.org/jobs/item/4075

Travelling to Copenhagen this week to constructively rain on peoples' AI parades at the Digital Tech Summit. Constructively, I promise. Can't have economic weakness in Europe this time around, or you know, ever. event.ing.dk/dts5/session...

At least in Estonia, the story of "digital signatures and Smart-ID could be broken by a quantum computer" still raises eyebrows. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/intuit...

If I get cryptographic agility in systems *and* get rid of MD5, I would totally have no cryptographically relevant quantum computer ever. May it do computational chemistry and cold fusion for all I care. Might be it won't do that either. Getting rid of MD5 is still a trip to Awesome Town.

Looks like cryptographers can still safely fall asleep again.... eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945 Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.

Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.

Yesterday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a new company, Liberty Vote. Dominion, the second-largest voting systems vendor in the US that currently tabulates 1 in 5 American votes, is no more. www.voting.works/news/public-...

Discord user IDs getting leaked is the entirely predictable consequence of requiring platforms to do age verification. That data never goes away, it spreads. In this case, into appeals in a breached customer support database. And predictably, it can get worse. www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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

My colleagues from Cybernetica and I decided to make another variant of Smart-ID / SplitKey protocol. Coppercloud is a two-party blind RSA signing with private key being split between a user and a server. Perfect for the future of privacy-preserving digital wallets! 🌐✨

What is chat control? Good video explainer developed by @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social and team at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy #chatcontrol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2O...

Tehisintellekt aitab neid, kes seda kontrollida suudavad www.err.ee/1609806123/d...

A lot of generally principled people have been riding the “I do this because I believe in the mission of stopping bad guys” and I think those principles are going to be tested soon.

@lilimilani.bsky.social Would there be value in validating this study on Estonian biobank data? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

I'm sympathetic, but I do think it is charming how teh lawyerz believe that you can legislate your way out of a threat model. "No one would ever do that, it's illegal."

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

Bart Preneel warns EU’s #chatcontrol is dangerous & ineffective: criminals will evade scanners, millions of false positives expected, and end-to-end encryption for all could collapse, threatening privacy, journalists & activists. #Privacy #Encryption #EU www.demorgen.be/nieuws/meer-...

Teaduste akadeemia küberturvalisuse komisjon avaldas 2024-2025 hooajal tehtud riskianalüüsid. koodivaramu.eesti.ee/riigi-valimi...

Really speaking to US academics here: rumor I heard is that DARPA appears to be “just not starting new (unclassified) projects.”

Teaduste akadeemia küberturvalisuse komisjoni augusti istungi protokoll on avaldatud. www.akadeemia.ee/akadeemia/no...

Usaldusest ja usaldatavusest 2025 päevakava ja esinejate nimekiri on nüüd lõplik. www.akadeemia.ee/konverents-u... Palun registreerige! Teemasid: Platvormivõim: kelle huvid ja väärtused meid juhivad? Käideldavus või kontroll? Millises ulatuses pannakse Eesti riik pilve?

New science from Cybernetica: Proving vote correctness in the IVXV internet voting system by Taaniel Kraavi and Jan Willemson www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Varajane eelteade - mõned esinejad on veel puudu - aga Teaduste akadeemia komisjon konverents Usaldusest ja usaldatavusest tuleb jälle! Registreerida juba saab. www.akadeemia.ee/konverents-u...

Excellent explanation of what chat control would mean and why we should not have it. Estonia uses so much cryptography at a national level that weakening by law it will cause legal issues for our government. chatcontrol.dk/en/