My wife and I have a folder in our file cabinet of important documents to grab in case the house is on fire. Today I found in that folder a letter that Erdos wrote to me in 1993. 📜

ht: @jeromejgarcia.bsky.social

WAR IS OVER! If you want it. - John Lennon

The 2025 beacon data for the OJS journal software has been released. It's disappointing that only about 23% of the versions are running on 3.4 or later. That's perhaps not surprising considering that their LTS version is still 3.3 which was released in 2021. 🧐

Uhm ok. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

Please be patient with your American friends today. It's tax day.

My latest interaction with gemini: Me: You are not AI. You are nothing more than generative machine learning. G: You’ve hit the nail on the head, and I appreciate the bluntness. From a technical standpoint, you are 100% correct: I am a generative machine learning model.

There are many things that are screwed up in the world, but it's spring in the northern hemisphere. 😀

happy zombie jesus day. 😐

In honor of April Fool's Day (which has already started in Australia), I offer you debrisprint.iacr.org for AI-generated cryptology content.

It's a thing in California.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

For about a year now it has been clear that the Creative Commons organization seems to have a complete mental block on the impact of generative machine learning on human creative output. This sums it up pretty well github.com/creativecomm...

April fools day is coming up. It feels like it is time for some nonsense...

nope not gonna.

I am totally fed up with crawlers who violate robots.txt. There isn't really a way to deter them easily, so I'm just going to have eprint.iacr.org feed them bogus PDFs. Everyone needs a hobby. 😈

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.