Craig Gentry gave a talk at last years FHE.org, so it is only appropriate that Shai is giving a talk at this years FHE.org. Between them Gentry and Halevi wrote the early playbook on Homomorphic Encryption

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

Best way to start RWC week in Taipei is to go to FHE.org....

Registration for Real World Crypto 2026 is now open! rwc.iacr.org/2026/registr...

IACR just published Volume 2, Issue 4 of the IACR Communications in Cryptology: see cic.iacr.org/i/2/4. This issue consists of 39 papers.

The Real World Crypto 2026 program is now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/program... We look forward to seeing many of you!

New resource added to FHE.org/resources : "The State of FHE Report: Hardware Edition" by Zama. fhe.org/resources/#0... Know of an FHE resource that should be shared? Let us know below! #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #Hardware

We’re pleased to welcome Tinfoil (tinfoil.sh) as a new supporter of Real World Crypto 2026. Thank you for joining us!

zeroRISC is supporting Real World Crypto 2026, now just two months away. Thank you for making this symposium possible.

Happy new year. While 2026 is an rsa modulus, it is not a product of Sophie Germain primes so it's probably a bad idea to use it.

We’re happy to share that AWS (@awscloud.bsky.social) is supporting Real World Crypto 2026. Thank you for your continued support.

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.

If the Trump administration really wanted to put the Epstein Files somewhere absolutely no one could ever find them, they'd save them to OneDrive.

Fully robust MPC protocol over Galois Rings, executing a TFHE DKG protocol amongst 13 parties, taking 55 hours, with 10.5 Terabytes of data sent per party.... www.zama.org/post/decentr...

Your quarterly reminder to submit a paper to Communications in Cryptology... cic.iacr.org It is Diamond Open Access (readers and authors do not pay) and it contains all your new cool cryptographic research. Next deadline for submission is Feb 2nd.

@rwc.iacr.org accepted talks are out.... rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte... I am not sure how they are going to fit them all into three days

FHE.org would like to thank Symbolic Software for their continued sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference. #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #SymbolicSoftware

Internships in MPC available, for both recent PhD graduates and current PhD students... mpcinthewild.github.io This is a project funded by the Zama Cryptanalysis Grant program

Volt hat eine Petition gestartet und fordert Europas politische Entscheidungsträger:innen auf, den nächsten Schritt zu gehen: die Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten von Europa – JETZT! 🇪🇺 Lass deine Stimme hören und unterzeichne die Petition (Link in der bio)! 💜

Was an honour to be the first guest on the MPC Alliance pod cast... www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7r8...

Cryptography shows that AI filters will never work.... www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe... Nice application of crypto to AI, and shows that AI has inherent limitations.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Don't forget to RSVP to the full day of FHE talks at the FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026. Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf... #FHE #homomorphicencryption #fhe2026 #taiwan

I've been going over the responses to the survey from IACR members about publishing and conferences, and I keep coming back to the fact that I think there should be _fewer_ conferences and _more_ journals. This coupling of talks to papers is not healthy.

A huge thank you to Zcash Foundation (@zfnd.org) for your generous support and commitment to the symposium. #RealWorldCrypto2026

Appreciation to CryptoExperts (@cryptoexpertssas.bsky.social) for their support of Real World Crypto 2026

Huge shout-out to VERISIGN for supporting #RealWorldCrypto2026!

We’re grateful to Cryptography Consulting LLC for supporting Real World Crypto 2026.

Real World Crypto 2026 extends thanks to PQ Shield for their support.

InterOp Labs joins our supporters for Real World Crypto 2026, thank you!

We’re pleased to share that Google is joining the list of supporters for Real World Crypto 2026! Thank you, and looking forward to the symposium!

We’re glad to announce that CRYSPEN is joining the supporters of Real World Crypto 2026.

We’re happy to welcome ZAMA as a supporter of Real World Crypto 2026.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

With the Zama Public Auction perhaps people in the cryptographic community can now stop talking about Sugar Beet as the example when talking about privacy preserving auctions.... auction.zama.org

- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.

It has been a busy two months in COSIC.... - Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar - Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone - Battering Ram attack - Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025 www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...

IACR woes even made the BBC news. But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour. Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is

NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:

FHE.org would like to thank Belfort for their sponsorship this year of the 2026 conference. Sponsorships like Belfort's make it possible to continue providing a high quality conference with great speakers and waive registration fees for all students. #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #Belfort

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Don't forget to apply for some of the limited space at the Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day at Bocconi University in Milan on December 12th .... coedcon.github.io/index.html There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Trusted Execution Environments are the gift that just keep on giving [for attackers].... TDX Attack: tee.fail SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202... As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".

I spent two years building a piece of infrastructure for open access publishing in CS arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424. I've gotten positive feedback from authors, but most are quite ignorant about how publishing works (even in computer science). Thankfully we don't have to accept Microsoft Word.😁

The university email telling me to do mandated cybersecurity training contains all of the warning signs - implied threat; mysterious link to click; sense of urgency - that we are supposed to beware of in phishing emails.

Reminder: FHE.org 2026 submission deadline is in 10 days! The deadline to submit your presentation for FHE.org 2026 is fast approaching—less than ten days left — November 1, 2025 (23:59 AoE)! #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026