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

Leuven named among best places to visit in Europe in 2026 www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1931...

The ticker is #$ZAMA www.zama.org/post/the-tic...

Looking forward to the NIST workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes next week. It has been a long time since the project was first conceived by NIST, but now excited it is really all systems go. csrc.nist.gov/events/2026/... My talk will be on Tuesday

FHE.org would like to thank Brightside for their sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference. Sponsorships like Brightside's make it possible to provide a quality conference with great speakers and free student admission. #FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #brightside

It’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.

Nice attack from COSIC on headphones... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j45... Details here... whisperpair.eu

Belgium has a cyber security unicorn.... www.belganewsagency.eu/ghent-cyber-...

New resource added to FHE.org /resources : "AAAI 2024 Tutorial: Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning using the OpenFHE Library" by Ian Quah, Yuriy Polyakov, and Sukanya Mandal. fhe.org/resources/#0... #FHE #Homomorphicencryption #OpenFHE

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