I’m very happy to share that two of my post-quantum signature candidates — MQOM and SDitH — have advanced to Round 3 of the ongoing NIST process 🎉 👏 Congrats to the teams behind these submissions. It has been a great journey so far, and I’m excited for what comes next. 👉 mqom.org 👉 sdith.org

How will post-quantum cryptography reshape privacy? PQCSA hosts a workshop on “Privacy in the Post-Quantum Era: Challenges and Migration Strategies” ahead of #CPDP. 📅 May 19 | Brussels ✅ Free 👉 Info & registration: cryptoexperts.com/pqcsa-worksh...

CryptoExperts is co-organizing "Privacy in the Post-Quantum Era: Challenges & Migration Strategies" (EU PQCSA), a CPDP pre-event. Discover PQ privacy challenges with industry & public actors. Free to attend. Matthieu (@mrivain.bsky.social) & Mélissa will be there! 🔗 cryptoexperts.com/pqcsa-worksh...

🏆 CHES is currently seeking organisers for the CHES 2026 Challenge: ches.iacr.org/2026/callfor... This is your opportunity to gamify and spotlight your favorite crypto engineering topic!

Tomorrow, I’ll present SmallWood at the NIST MPTS workshop (csrc.nist.gov/events/2026/...) a preview submission to the NIST MPTC process. SmallWood is a hash-based (plausibly post-quantum) zero-knowledge proof system with competitive proof sizes for relatively small instances. 📄 ia.cr/2025/1085

We have another event to announce: "PQCSA workshop Open-Source PQC Libraries and Implementations" on 30 Jan in Brussels, co-located with @fosdem.org www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...

The accepted talks for Real World Crypto 2026 are now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte... Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.

Happy to announce the posting of D1.1 Survey of PQC algorithms D1.3 Hot Topics and Open Problems in Post-Quantum Cryptography D2.1 Survey of PQC protocols pqcsa.eu/deliverables... There are no formally approved deliverables, yet. These drafts are provided as is for the interest of the community.

The call for papers for PKC 2026 is out: pkc.iacr.org/2026/callfor...

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

8 days left to submit your contributed talk to Real World Crypto 2026. Submit here: submit.iacr.org/rwc2026/ Deadline: October 10

✨ New publication ✨ Thibauld Feneuil & Matthieu Rivain's paper that introduces “Threshold Computation in the Head” (TCitH) paradigm for ZK proofs and PQ signature schemes is published in the Journal of Cryptology’s ZK collection! 📃 ePrint: eprint.iacr.org/2023/1573 📘 Journal: doi.org/10.1007/s001...

🎓 CryptoExperts launches 5 short-format training modules in cryptography! 📚 Post-quantum, side-channel attacks, blockchain & more — for non-specialists 📍 In Paris or on-site. 🇫🇷/🇬🇧 Available in French or English 👉 www.cryptoexperts.com/services/tra...

Super pleased to see that Zama has just announced the first recipients of the Zama Cryptanalysis Grants. www.zama.ai/post/announc... The projects supported cover security of FHE, MPC, TEEs and ZK. The teams getting the grants represent some of the leading experts in their respective fields.

The CHES Challenge is coming back in 2025 with two tracks! 🔬 GE Wars: Test your DL-SCA skills on real-world AES EM traces. 🔧 HACK@CHES'25: Dive into hardware security on a custom OpenTitan SoC. 🔗 ches.iacr.org/2025/challen... #CHES2025 #SideChannel #HardwareSecurity

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