Happy days! A perfect excuse to share my favourite quantum cryptography origin story, as recounted in Brassard’s paper: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph...

CHES 2026 is calling for Test of Time Award nominations! A great opportunity to spotlight high impact papers💡 ➡️ ches.iacr.org/2026/callfor... Celebrating lasting impact means honoring foundational ideas! #CHES2026 #HardwareSecurity #CHES

I am co-organising (with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik) a workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Rome on May 10 as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt. Submit your best PEC-work (3-page extended abstract) for presentation by February 25th: privcryptworkshop.github.io

From mid-November on, before you send an email ask yourself if this is really a 2025 problem

🚨 The CHES 2025 Rump Session — Call for Contributions is out! Got something short, fun, bold, or last-minute to share with the community? Submit now 👉 ches.iacr.org/2025/rumpses... #IACR #CHES #hardwaresecurity #CHES2025

CECC 2025 will accept posters, submission deadline is the 23rd May (more details can be found at cecc2025.inf.elte.hu). Also we have great invited speakers (Carla Rafols, Thomas Decru, Stefan Dziembowski), so hope to see you in Budapest!

🚨 TCHES 2025 Issue 4 Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025! Submit your research on cryptographic hardware & software to CHES- happening this September in Kuala Lumpur! More info: ches.iacr.org/2025/callfor... #CHES2025 #Cryptography #HardwareSecurity #SideChannel #IACR #EmbeddedSystems #CallForPapers

Our friends at ELTE are organizing the Central European Crypology conference (CECC 2025) in Budapest and they're looking forward to your submissions (you only need to submit an extended abstract). Every info on the webpage: cecc2025.inf.elte.hu/en/

There is a deadline of April 8 for submitting to volume 2, issue 2 of Communications in Cryptology (see https://cic.iacr.org). The papers for volume 2, issue 1 are going through copy editing.

📢 Final call for CHES Test of Time Award 2025 paper nominations! 🏆 Help us recognize impactful research from past editions of CHES. Submit your nominations by April 1st! Details: ches.iacr.org/2025/callfor... #CHES2025 #CHES #TestOfTimeAward #AcademicExcellence #IACR

Congratulations to the legendary Adi Shamir on his Levchin Prize win! Dr. Shamir donated the $10K prize money to students sponsorships.

Our group in Tartu (me and @jannosiim.bsky.social and some PhD students) have additional openings for a postdoc and a PhD student; see crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/OpenPos... (iacr.org/jobs link will hopefully be up in a few days). Apply by email to me

Update on crypto.iacr.org/2025/

We have extended the submission deadline for the International Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PrivCrypt) by two weeks to April 4, 2025, AoE. Please help spread the word and consider submitting your work to join us in Munich in Summer 😎

Join our Applied Crypto group at FAU in Nürnberg as a PhD student or spread the word: we're hiring. Our work covers many topics in real-world crypto, especially provable security and privacy of modern messaging protocols 🔐✉️ www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/7-phd-p...

If you are looking for a PhD or PostDoc position in Cryptographic Engineering, please check the openings of Michael Hutter at our Research Institute CODE here in beautiful Munich. Please consider and help spread the word: iacr.org/jobs/item/3908

Ludovic Perret (EPITA & SORBONNE) and I are organizing a workshop on "Quantum-Safe Hybrid Cryptography (QSHC)" under the umbrella of ACNS 2025. Please consider submitting a contributed talk (2-page abstract) and helping us spread the word. Link: sites.google.com/view/qshc25/...

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

We are organising the International Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PrivCrypt) - co-located with ACNS 2025 end of June in beautiful Munich. Submission deadline is March 21, 2025 (AoE). Please help spread the word! 🙏 privcryptworkshop.github.io

We're hiring multiple PhD candidates for our ARC-funded project on fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE), SNARKs & more Job listing 👇 iacr.org/jobs/item/3840 Apply via docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Some info on PhD at Monash/in Australia mfesgin.github.io/supervision/ Please help to share!

Submission deadline approaching for the IACR Communications in Cryptology (CiC). Don’t miss your chance to contribute to this diamond open access journal. Deadline: January 13, 2025 (AoE) Details and submission guidelines: cic.iacr.org/callforpapers #cryptography #iacr

Not only is it not Friday, it’s not even Thursday

“No worries, I should have it finished by December!” December:

We got a PhD Position in Lattice-Based Cryptography at King's College London martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/p... cryptographers.kcl.ac.uk

The Asiacrypt 2024 program is finally up! asiacrypt.iacr.org/2024/program...