Our paper "Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications" (arxiv.org/abs/2505.02761) received a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025. A bit of bragging ;) The effort was led by @nibeshrestha.bsky.social from Supra Labs

Deadline in 46 hr! Hope your ACNS 2026 (acns26-cycle1.hotcrp.com) submissions are coming along well.

Breaking the Barrier for Asynchronous MPC with a Friend (Banashri Karmakar, Aniket Kate, Shravani Patil, Arpita Patra, Sikhar Patranabis, Protik Paul, Divya Ravi) ia.cr/2025/1736

Join us in shaping the program at Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2026 in New York. (acns2026.github.io) The first deadline is this Friday AoE.

Velox: Scalable Fair Asynchronous MPC from Lightweight Cryptography (Akhil Bandarupalli, Xiaoyu Ji, Aniket Kate, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Daniel Pöllmann, Yifan Song) ia.cr/2025/1630

Web3 Recovery Mechanisms and User Preferences (Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Konstantinos Chalkias, Aniket Kate, Mohsen Minaei, Mainack Mondal) ia.cr/2025/1687

Call for Papers (CFP) is up for ACNS 2026 (first deadline in a month) Place: New York City acns2026.github.io

Hydrangea: Optimistic Two-Round Partial Synchrony with One-Third Fault Resilience (Nibesh Shrestha, Aniket Kate, Kartik Nayak) ia.cr/2025/1112

Building anonymous post-office protocols without getting restricted by post-box sizes... via Oblivious shuffle + ORAM + OMR

Towards Improving Throughput and Scalability of DAG-based BFT SMR (Nibesh Shrestha, Aniket Kate) ia.cr/2025/877

InstaRand: Instantly Available and Instantly Verifiable On-chain Randomness (Jacob Gorman, Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Pratyay Mukherjee, Pratik Sarkar, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) ia.cr/2025/896

Dyna-hinTS: Silent Threshold Signatures for Dynamic Committees (Aniket Kate, Pratyay Mukherjee, Samipa Samanta, Pratik Sarkar) ia.cr/2025/631

Happy to announce our paper "VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains" was accepted into IEEE CSF 2025. Led by @pratikscrypto.bsky.social @aniketkate.bsky.social, and Jacob Gorman from Supra. The paper can be found here eprint.iacr.org/2024/957

Looking forward to attending Real-World Crypto '25 rwc.iacr.org/2025/ next week. I should be there from Tuesday afternoon to Friday evening. I will present our Tor Directory Authorities (zhtluo.com/paper/Attack...) work on Friday afternoon.

Disincentivize Collusion in Verifiable Secret Sharing (Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate, Hemanta K. Maji, Hai H. Nguyen) ia.cr/2025/446

VITARIT: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends (Lucjan Hanzlik, Aniket Kate, Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Pratyay Mukherjee, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) ia.cr/2025/174

I am looking forward to attending Real-Wolrd Crypto in Sofia in March'25. #RWC I will be presenting our work on attacking and improving the Tor directory authority (distributed) system: zhtluo.com/paper/Attack...

The list of accepted talk at @rwc.iacr.org is now available: rwc.iacr.org/2025/accepte... Early registration ends 26 February. CC: programme co-chair @nicksullivan.org

There are now *three* official co-located events for #RealWorldCrypto 2025. * Real-World MPC (RWMPC) * The 4th Annual FHE.org conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption * The 3rd Annual Real World Post-Quantum Cryptography Workshop (RWPQC 2024) rwc.iacr.org/2025/colocat...