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

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Looks like cryptographers can still safely fall asleep again.... eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945 Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.

Just over a week left to submit a 2-4 page talk proposal for the @fheorg.bsky.social conference in Taipei next year... fhe.org/conferences/...

"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"

Join us on Thursday, Oct 23rd at 5PM CEST for an FHE.org meetup with Shane Kosieradzki, Cryptographic Engineer at Crypto Asset Technology Labs, and Hannah Mahon, Research Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute, presenting "Encrypted Matrix Multiplication Using 3-Dimensional Rotations".

If you are looking for a present for that cryptographer in your life for Xmas, then here you go.... obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...

The next COED Industry Day is going to be held in Milan.... coedcon.github.io/index.html Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama

Volume 2 Issue 3 of Communications in Cryptology is now available.... cic.iacr.org/i/2/3

Just a few days left....

This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people! rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...

FHE.org 2026 Taipei Registrations are open! Registrations are open for the 5th Annual 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...

Under one week left to submit your papers to the next issue of the IACR's Communications in Cryptology... cic.iacr.org You know it makes sense - Fast turnaround - Diamond Open Access - No travel to conferences in some god-forsaken location

KU Leuven spin-off creates world's first chip for encrypted data processing

Get your talk proposals in for FHE.org in Taipei next year...

The Call for Presentations for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, to be held in Taipei in March 2026 is open. Just under 7 weeks left (November 1st) to submit your 2-4 page PDF on your FHE project, use-case, or demo. #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHEorg2026

Over 500 cryptographers warn the EU draft “Chat Control” could weaken end‑to‑end encryption. The EU council votes on the Danish text on Sep 12, 2025. https://getnews.me/eu-chat-control-criticized-by-500-cryptographers-over-privacy-risks/ #euchatcontrol #privacy #cryptography

The EU Parliament has published a new proposal for Chat Control to mass-surveil all digital communication in Europe. The proposal is ineffective, weakens secure communication, and violates basic human privacy. This must be stopped immediately. #ChatControl csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

The EU wants to spend your money to assemble a giant mass surveillance machine with little effect on harm against children. Chat Control is not effective, weakens security for all and does not respect privacy. Contact your EU representatives and let them know. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Check out the new open letter signed by more than 450 scientists who have serious concerns on the latest (July 2025) version of the chat control proposal. csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Officially old. @londmathsoc.bsky.social have sent me an email saying I qualify for senior membership. Down hill from here on in.

Just a flavour: 1) you can’t make a backdoor that only lets goodies in. Baddies will also use it, to devastating effect. 2) Security services, and even Europol- who face the shape end of global gangs and threats- have acknowledged as much.

Another great video from Oxford Maths dept...

Great video from Oxford Maths showing how Uni maths is different from school maths. Basically maths at Uni is a different subject to that at school. You really need to go back to basics to learn what a number is, and then build up from there.

Map of where people come from who submit papers to the IACR eprint archive eprint.iacr.org/geo/index.html Zooming way out what is interesting is that North America (185) is much less represented than Europe (406) and Asia (234). Note this is counting locations/institutes as opposed to papers.

Quantum computers vs a dog... eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

The Call for Contributed Talks is now open for RWC 2026! And the deadline for submissions is now Oct. 10, 2025. rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...

🔐 You're invited! Join us on 18 Nov 2025 in Leuven (Belgium) for the #IEEE Milestone Award Ceremony, honoring #Rijndael, the Belgian cipher selected as #AES, protecting billions worldwide. 📅 Register (free) by 25 Oct: 🔗 rijndael-ieeemilestone.cs.ru.nl/index #CyberSecurity #Cryptography

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. 🤔

Paris-based Zama, which is developing fully homomorphic encryption tech for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $57M Series B at a $1B+ valuation (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Zama, a pioneer in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for blockchains, just raised $57M at a $1B+ valuation, becoming the first FHE unicorn! 🚀 This funding fuels their mainnet launch & ecosystem growth, enabling confidential dapps & securing sensitive data on-chain. #FHE #Blockchain #Privacy #Zama

Paris-based cryptography startup Zama secures €49 million to bring end-to-end encryption to public blockchains French startup Zama, an open-source cryptography company building Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain, today announced a €49 million Series B funding round to…

Zama Raises $57M, Becomes First Unicorn Involved With Fully Homomorphic Encryption The team said the fundraise pushes Zama’s total capital raised to over $150 million and values it at over $1 billion, making the firm the first... @cosmicmeta.io #Unicorn https://u2m.io/Lz404S5Q

Paris-based cryptography startup Zama secures €49 million to bring end-to-end encryption to public blockchains French startup Zama, an open-source cryptography company building Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain, today announced a €49 million Series B funding round to…

Catastrophic cost of £40bn to the UK economy from Brexit now effectively confirmed.

Just a reminder to join us later today at 4PM CEST for FHE.org meetup with Alexandra Henzinger, graduate student at MIT presenting "Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption from Sparse LPN". RSVP at lu.ma/opf2g5sj #FHE #homomorphicencryption

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Registration for the Leuven Isogeny Days 6 is now open! 📅 10–12 Sept 2025 @ KU Leuven Morning: research talks Afternoon: brainstorming sessions More info: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/projec... #isogeny #isocrypt #erc #postquantum

Fitting all (well, most) of COSIC into one picture? Not easy, but we did it! Curious about our research in #cryptography and #security? Check out our work: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/ #choosecosic #COSIC #KULeuven