seems like air traffic controllers should just walk out and bring all air travel to a halt. That might put some pressure on.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan, in another complicated time

my wife and I own cars that are 20 and 16 years old. I like the fact that they do not receive software updates.

Vibe Coding: a technology that enables one developer to create enough technical debt to keep 10 developers employed for 10 years.

I should keep mentioning this to the IACR board.

it's true. I wasn't at my desk yesterday. Monterey California, 72 degrees.

Stitching Us All Together, 2014, glass sculpture by Canadian artist Carol Milne #womensart

I can’t qWHITE figure out what’s wrong here.

I asked gemini to provide some pros and cons for different document formats like LaTeX, docx, markdown, and HTML. It gave a reasonable answer, though I didn't learn anything new from it. It offered to export the answer as a spreadsheet. Holy shitbrains it really does NOT understand the question.

As we end #OpenAccessWeek I have a meeting next week to review whether IACR should go completely open access for conference proceedings. I think the bigger problem for IACR is how to conduct peer review. On that subject: openreview.net/pdf?id=VObyC...

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

I was amused in reading the comments from the IACR survey that someone used the term "out house publishing" when I think they meant "out sourced publishing". Similar meaning, don't you think?

IEEE S&P has removed the decision types of "major revision" and "minor revision". Instead they have introduced the concept of "accept with reservations", in which there is a public metareview published with the paper. I think I like this idea.

I'm surprised that internetofcr.app is not registered.

Luckily the IACR mail server is in US-EAST-2 (Ohio) instead of US-EAST-1 (Virginia). 🫣

How dominant is LaTeX in computer science? Very. It turns out that among the 1895 papers uploaded to eprint.iacr.org this year, it looks like 3 were produced from typst, 10 were produced from Microsoft Word, and three of indeterminate origin. The rest were various flavors of LaTeX.

It's a little hard to tell from this photo, but that door opens straight out to a cliff. There is no ledge at all. Another peculiar sight in Santa Cruz, CA.

I sometimes miss New Mexico.

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There must be some unstated law that mail servers and smoke alarms are only allowed to fail between midnight and 5am.

If you do standards work, you should not waste your time with ISO because they charge for access to their standards. As a result I almost never implement them. Charging for standards is just ridiculous, and you should not agree to work on them unless the final result becomes public.

dear @financialtimes.com Fuck you very much for your dark pattern website.

History has many painful lessons.

If you have kids whom you love and cheris, I hope your home doesn't look like this.

I saw a funny video where a guy said "if the US wants to sell citizenship for $5M, then can I sell my citizenship and get the fuck out of here?" That raises an interesting point in economics - if there was a free market for people to trade their citizenship, what value would be placed on them?

Nominations are due October 1 for IACR elections. There are seven positions available. iacr.org/elections/20...

Whoa. 100 responses from speakers at CHES, and only one is presenting by video. Maybe their conference is actually worth going to?

Last day for IACR members to respond on the survey!

looking forward to Talk like a pirate day

Were people clamoring for a thinner phone or did Apple just run out of ideas?

My wife pointed out to me over lunch that hummingbirds do not have knees. I confess that I never thought about it before that moment. 🤔

it would be funny if Taylor swift turned out to be pregnant. 😳

You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums

When a conference tells you to upload your slides at least 24 hours in advance, that doesn't mean 24 minutes in advance.

Monday will be the 40th anniversary of my first attendance at the Crypto conference. 40 years ago I gave the first talk at the conference. I didn't know wtf I was doing. I still don't.

Turns out that discuss.iacr.org is getting some interesting participation in response to the survey that was put out. If you received an invitation, you should consider joining just to read along.

I find it difficult to take seriously any project that uses #discord. What an awful user interface...🤮

Anyone who has been an IACR member in 2023-2026 should have received a link to respond to a survey about conferences and publishing. So far over 500 people have responded, but it will remain open for responses until Sept 12, 2025. I would also encourage people to use their forum invitations.

and again the next day.

Upgrading a mission-critical service like submit.iacr.org is always a little terrifying. 😬

@researchorgs.bsky.social We started gathering ROR for affiliations in 2022, and it now provides a way to see where research in cryptology is being done. eprint.iacr.org/geo/index.html As with all data collection, there are occasional errors.

It seems that plus.google.com now directs to something silly.

I need to coauthor something with this guy orcid.org/0000-0001-92...

I am amused by the USENIX Security call for papers. "USENIX Security is a systems security venue. AI-focused contributions must be relevant to the broader systems security community". It seems that machine learning is like an oil slick spreading across computer science.

#ORCIDfeedback After reading the guidelines for how to include a link to an ORCID profile in a document, I lean toward omitting them altogether. The guidelines require authors to authenticate their ID before using the ORCID logo, but that's unrealistic. A lot of OJS admins are just disabling ORCID.

Uhm...I don't think I need these ads.

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.

I've spent so much time thinking about LaTeX lately that I immediately started writing \newenvironment{hiddenprompt}... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...