USENIX chair report: "six individuals appear as co-authors on 20 or more submissions, with two authors appearing on 36 and 39 submissions respectively. At such volume, it becomes difficult not to question the nature and depth of the contributions" www.usenix.org/sites/defaul...

Congratulations, Dr. Phillip Gajland for successfully defending his PhD thesis! It was a great journey!

Eurocrypt 2025!

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since I joined RUB @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ! Time really flies. Bochum has an incredibly vibrant and excellent cybersecurity research community. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxy...

The 3rd edition of WISC – Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop will take place in Bochum from June 16 to 18. Already confirmed are talks by Lejla Batina, Zinaida Benenson, Shafi Goldwasser, Martina Lindorfer, and Doreen Riepel. Registration is open now! casa.rub.de/en/events/wi...

Why is slack so stupid?

TIL that the term Σ-protocol (3-move ZKP) has been coined by Cramer in his '97 PhD thesis, that it refers to SIG (like in zig-zag) and MA from Merlin-Arthur (like in Arthur-Merlin Protocol; MA is also a complexity class) and that it was used for the first time only in a PKC'00 paper. What a day!

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/a... NIST gives you 10, but Australia gives you 5. Not ratings, but number of years to transition away from SHA, RSA, Ecdsa, etc.