Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

The list of accepted papers to SCN 2026 is available online: scn.unisa.it/scn26/index....

Registration for SCN and the event for my "academic retirement" is now open... scn.unisa.it/scn26/index.... See you in Amalfi

Going to Eurocrypt in Rome next week? Looking for something interesting to do on Monday evening? Look no further.... luma.com/zama-meetup-...

Two weeks ago, Google published a paper proving in zero-knowledge that they had an efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm. Today, Trail of Bits can prove that we have an even better implementation which beats Google's on all metrics! 🫢 blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...

I'm looking for a PhD student to work with me on formal verification for cryptographic protocols. This is a 4-year position at VU Amsterdam, co-supervised with Kristina Sojakova. Send me an email if you want to know more!

Going to Eurocrypt this May in Rome? The Zama team will be presenting new research on Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Check out the talk by Amit Deo and Benoit Libert on Fully Asymmetric Anamorphic Homomorphic Encryption from LWE.

Betting on the Quantum Apocalypse... www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/c...

Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley, the English economist best known for coining the term BRIC, has named Brexit as a 'colossal economic shock', and the reduce in productivity has been 'exaggerated by our rather odd decision to leave the EU.'

In a blatant act of provocation yesterday, Sadiq Khan allowed Christians to perform the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square - a disgraceful show of dominance by a religion from the middle east.

With Nigel Smart’s recent #RSAC Math Award, he becomes the 4th COSIC member to receive this recognition over the years - joining Bart Preneel, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. Proud of COSIC’s long‑standing contributions to cryptography. 🔐 #COSIC #KULeuven #RSAC2026 #RSAC

Enjoy your April.... debrisprint.iacr.org

Adi Shamir reading out the thank you I sent to the audience today at RSAC after the award of the RSA 2026 Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics, which was jointly award to me and Yehuda Lindell. I could not be at the event today in San Francisco to receive the award in person alas.

Incredibly happy to announce that @zama-fhe.bsky.social is sponsoring FIVE full-cost scholarships for Lebanese students to attend Cedarcrypt. THANK YOU! Our CFP is open until April 10 for workshops, lectures, and research talks in applied crypto. Sponsors welcome. cedarcrypt.org

I have a Reviewer 2 joke but apparently it represents only an incremental advance on previous jokes, and so has been rejected.

Final day and we are going out swinging. Privacy tech, Bluetooth deep-dives, a bird's-eye view from Nadia Heninger, PKI dispatches, TLS war stories, and lightning talks. No one's leaving early. #realworldcrypto

RSAC 2026 Conference to Celebrate Pioneering Minds in Mathematics and Cryptography Awards#United_States#San_Francisco#RSAC_Conference#Mathematics#Cryptography

Super pleased to have been recognized with this award... www.rsaconference.com/library/pres... Yehuda and I join an amazing list of previous winners.

We’re live!

It's RWC. So follow online by video...

It's RWC. So follow online with @durumcrustulum.com ....

* Randomization in FHE and TFHE by Nigel Smart and Michael Walter * Iterated Hash Functions over Encrypted Data: News from the Front by Olivier Bernard and Marc Joye Time for a break before the final session of the day, then on to the afterparty!

A full day of talks, posters, lunch, breaks, networking, and afterparty is about to begin! Come meet the amazing people in FHE on the 5th floor of the Taipei Marriott Hotel. #FHE2026 #FHE

"I said it's quite bold of Nigel Farage to go to the US to side with Donald Trump against his own country. What did I say Roy?" "You said he's a treacherous self-serving sack of shit"

New sponsor update: Bundesdruckerei (BDR) is joining Real World Crypto 2026. Thank you for the support and see you next week!

Nice blog by @matthewdgreen.bsky.social on anonymous credential systems

Miss our meetup with Miran Kim on "Efficient Homomorphic Matrix Computation for Secure Transformer Inference"? You can watch the recorded presentation here! 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVUS... #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption

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.

FHE.org would like to thank Technology Innovation Institute (TII) for their sponsorship this year of the FHE.org 2026 conference. Find out more information about Technology Innovation Institute at www.tii.ae #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #TII

📢 Just 10 days left until the 5th annual FHE.org conference in Taipei, Taiwan! You won't want to miss this year's presentations: 55 submissions (10 talks and 23 posters accepted) and invited speaker Shai Halevi presenting "To Search and Protect: An MPC/FHE Approach to Encrypted Search"

We’re glad to share a new sponsor for Real World Crypto 2026: Yubico. Thanks for supporting the symposium.

We're glad to share that Technology Innovation Institute will sponsor Real World Crypto 2026. Thank you for the support!

Joining the sponsors for Real World Crypto 2026: Mozilla (@mozilla.org). Thanks for helping make this symposium happen.

Oh I like this! #xckd #xkcd2501 #meme #cryptography #nerd #zkp #zeroknowledge

There's a lot of concern of Europeans being dependent on US payment firms, notably Visa/Mastercard. We forget that until 2016 Europe DID have its own payments champion. Visa Europe was owned by European banks (it merely licensed the Visa name) Sold for ~$20bn. Basically zero regulatory scrutiny.

Labour isn’t levelling with voters on the sacrifices higher defence spending will require, storing up trouble for the future. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Do you use a cloud-based password manager? So what's your threat model? Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even if we wanted to)." We decided to test this… 1/n

"This is vibes-based policy making, not evidence-based policy making" — me talking on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast just now about the MPs pushing for a social media ban for under 16s.

CFP says: "Original research papers on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering theory, implementations and applications, and related fields, are solicited for submission to PKC 2026" Reviewer B says: "I do not think it aligns well with the theoretical focus expected at this conference"

FHE.org would like to thank @leastauthority.bsky.social for their continued sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference. #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #LeastAuthority

bloody Normans, coming over here and holding the battle of Hastings not even in Hastings but in Battle.

Today I was looking at an article on Multi-Party Threshold #Cryptography and wondered why "threshold" has only one h. Turns out the etymology is not "thresh-hold" at all, but "thresh-wold", possibly from the Middle English word "wold" meaning "forest". Mind blown.

Last chance: the early registration deadline is tomorrow, February 6 (AoE). rwc.iacr.org/2026/registr...

"The Internet has mostly divided itself into people who already know these allegations are true, because they don’t trust Meta and of course Meta can read your messages — and a second set of people who also don’t trust Meta but mostly think this is unsupported nonsense" Well said Matt.

Come be part of Cedarcrypt, our historic new initiative to grow cryptography research, development and representation in the Levant region! We're seeking speakers and workshop leaders: our call for submissions is open! Learn more: cedarcrypt.org Please spread the word!

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/

Looking forward to this... www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...

It has been an exciting past week for Zama. Now the results are in. The first sealed bid auction conducted using Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and it all went smoothly. Fully Homomorphic Encryption is now here and ready to use. www.linkedin.com/pulse/zama-p...

Reminder that the next submission deadline for IACR's Communications in Cryptology is next Monday. Remember this is a fully reviewed Diamond Open Access (free for authors, free for readers) journal , published by the premier cryptographic society on earth. cic.iacr.org