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...

The UK implements tough new age verification rules

That was about as welcome as a telemarketing call in the execution chamber.

Traffic for this may have peaked, according to Google. That's a shame. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

I've never understood the European tradition of everyone taking their vacation at the same time. Isn't everything really expensive during the month of August as a result?

I recently started clamping down on AI companies crawling cryptographic literature on IACR servers. I see no point in letting them use it to generate scientific nonsense. pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/m...

Today marks 672 months since I met my wife. Yes, I know I am old.

I'm beginning to think that authors should be given the opportunity to choose a NT clause in their creative commons license - to prevent training generative machine learning from using their content. You might think that BY-NC-ND would be enough, but it's clearly not.

Less than a mile from my house. 🤕

blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... I see this as a very weak proposal to solve the problem of visas to attend a conference. The physical attendance at NeurIPS in 2024 was 16,777. The Mexico City location can only accommodate 500 attendees. Why are they creating a second tier of attendance experience?

In researching for an article I'm working on, I came across this article titled "Toward a new economics of science". Of course Elsevier offered to sell it to me for $31.50, which pretty much supercedes anything the article could have to say. #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have heard predictions about a coming ice age. I had no idea that meant immigration enforcement.

www.ams.org/news?news_id... Things that make you say hmmm.

Sorry to hear that IBM Almaden is closing. I worked there in 88-89 and again in 1997-2005. Unfortunately IBM has not kept pace with the changes in the world, and other places in silicon valley became more attractive.

I'm always curious what is on these when I find old media.

I am stunned by the irony of Netanyahu nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Am I still on Earth?

We've published Volume 2, Issue 2 of IACR Communications in Cryptology. This now brings us over 200 articles published in six issues. cic.iacr.org/i/2/2 It may be time to overhaul the rest of IACR publishing. 🤔

Uhm ok. eprint.iacr.org/2025/445

The more I look at the #TeXLaTeX uploaded to #arXiv, the more I realize that #TeXLaTeX is a complete mess.

For someone in the USA, tomorrow will be the last day they have ten fingers. #Fireworks

NSF budget request for 2026 cuts Mathematical and Physical Sciences by 75%. It's a bloodbath. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

in case anyone is wondering; being retired is better than being at work.

I stopped for a meal today in a rural part of California today when I saw a guy wearing a red maga hat. It was all I could do to avoid screaming at him for voting for a satan that cut the NIH budget.

I think researchgate should identify itself as useless since it keeps asking me to identify as a human.

the only way I care about SpaceX is if Musk is onboard and it's a one way trip.

summertime.

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