Let the enshittification begin. Soon they will be selling content to AI companies. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

I live in silicon valley. My reality is that my neighbors are from India, China, Korea, Japan, Persia, Russia, Germany, Mexico, Vietnam, and probably places I don't know about. The hatred that republicans exhibit about immigration is sad and bizarre. We all share life experiences.

This is the distribution of the number of pages of papers submitted to Crypto 2026. 314 of the 752 papers have at least 50 pages, and 22 have at least 100 pages. Clearly the 30 page limit isn't cutting it.

RWC livestream has started at www.youtube.com/live/QQhyxFj...

Because the name "Google plus" worked out so well last time.

how many articles of clothing do you own that you haven't worn in five years?

“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump

I discovered today that my house (which was built in 1976 on top of an old vineyard), was also built almost exactly on the site of a railroad line that ran from Campbell California to New Almaden (near where IBM Almaden used to be). www.historicaerials.com/viewer

archive.is/LAaZi I don't think there is just a single day you can point to, but support for Israel is definitely eroding in the US.

It feels like @pkp.sfu.ca should be able to keep a web site up and running. forum.pkp.sfu.ca has been down for a while now.

About page limits. Why do CS conferences have them? If you look at the length of papers posted to eprint.iacr.org, 96% of them are at most 75 pages. Seems like we should just publish them instead of jumping through hoops to fit the old world of paper.

I suspect that Trump's popularity in his country is approximately equal to what the Ayatollah's popularity was in Iran.

It's somehow fitting that it ended up with Elsevier.

For the last few months I've been working with a colleague on trying to improve a result in number theory that I proved about 40 years ago. I'm out of practice in number theory but it's odd how quickly it comes back.

It’s finally over

30 years. This video should be on every network.

We've received an offer for a corporate credit card for Digicrime. 🤔

when I lived in Los Angeles I always thought of it as the land of firm bodies and flabby minds.

I've pretty much had it with bots crawling eprint. Today there was someone who was requesting /2025 every five seconds, not noticing that it's a redirect to /2025/ I think my next project is going to be a LaTeX generator that contains random mathematics in order to pollute the training of LLMs.

dblp.org/pid/s/c.html No relation to Claus-Peter Schnorr.

hard to believe that I've been retired for 8 years now.

It's somehow representative of the state of science in the USA that the NSF server is not working today. 🤕

it says something about the situation in the USA that my wife and I have a folder in our file cabinet to deal with all of the class action lawsuits that we end up involved in. Most of them end up paying only tens of dollars - but that's life in the USA.

It's unfortunate that the President of the United States and the dumbest mother fucker on the planet is currently the same person.

we planted a snow pea plant and a snap pea plant. The snap pea on the right looks pathetic but is proving four times as much. 🤔

I was testing something with LaTeXML to generate HTML from a LaTeX file the way that arxiv does. Unfortunately the LaTeX file loaded expl3 so it took 30 minutes to process a one page LaTeX file. #TeXLaTeX I guess this shows why you should not try to parse LaTeX in perl. 😢

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

I sailed on the ship from San Francisco to Sydney in 1971. ok I'm old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arca...

The IACR board sent a survey to members last year, and it took us a while to analyze the results and publish findings. You can see them at iacr.org/surveyresults/

I have an Erdos number of two, but I also published an article in the same journal as Ted Kaczynski.

75% of the traffic on eprint.iacr.org is now bots.

In going back over some old IACR documents, I discovered something I had written for the board in 2013 saying that we could be full open access in 2015.

it was cold today. It only reached 60 degrees by noon. 🧐

I took a lovely drive today with the top down. #California

How long will it be until ICE starts using drones?

On this day in history, former Republican Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died. His secretary was 25 at the time.

When do you declare a github repository dead in terms of the number of open issues. Flutter has over 12k open issues. github.com/flutter/flut...

Is it just me, or is llncs the ugliest damn LaTeX class on the planet?

I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

much if the US is under snow and ice this week. Meanwhile in California we are wondering if it will break 70 degrees today.

I believe that it's time for California to secede from the "United" States. We should join the new superpower Canada and leave the stupor power that the USA now represents.

I was only 14 when Martin Luther King died but I still remember thinking the world was fucked up. A few months later Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The USA has problems again and I hope that we can recover. It's not guaranteed.

dear Denmark. please ignore the noise from the orange idiot who is experiencing mental illness. he will be gone eventually.

In 1943, Norwegian author Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize to Joseph Goebbels. So history _does_ repeat itself.

my wife and I saw a bald eagle in San Jose today. I've never seen one in the city before.

We have now published 8 issues in two volumes of IACR Communications in Cryptology. I remember this going back to a proposal by Nigel Smart over ten years ago. @smartcryptology.bsky.social