Today's hustle music

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Amazed at the sheer garbage I'm finding in my slides on Diffie-Hellman prior to class! Almost done rewriting... so glad I do two hours of prep before each lecture.

The impact of Alfred Menezes in cryptography is profound. Francisco RH and I are organizing an afternoon session in Latincrypt to celebrate Alfred's career: menezesfest.info If you're coming to Medellín, consider attending!

ATTENTION STUDENTS: the Kopiko crystal bowl in my office has been REFILLED

Received this sticker from students today

Loving iOS 26/macOS 26 so far.

Just installed iOS 26, everything on my phone now looks like a soap bubble

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"Chinedu Mogbo, a wildlife conservationist, carries Moruf, a sea turtle, after rescuing it from poachers in a fishing community along the Ibeju-Lekki coastline in Lagos, Nigeria, July 29, 2025."

A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances “They think if one looks a certain way, that means they have an agenda to convert society. If the society was going to convert, it would have happened hundreds of years ago.” apnews.com/article/leba...

Currently at the Grand Sérail to attend an event organized with the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Mr. Nawaf Salam. What an incredible honor to be a guest within the Grand Sérail!

Generic Anonymity Wrapper for Messaging Protocols (Lea Thiemt, Paul Rösler, Alexander Bienstock, Rolfe Schmidt, Yevgeniy Dodis) ia.cr/2025/1619

A group of physicists claim they have proof that true randomness exists. This has implications for encryption protocols and computing, but (if true) would also indicate that the past does not determine the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uk7...

JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were injected with malicious code in world's largest supply chain hack, geared to steal crypto — a phishing email is all it took to undermine npm packages www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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

It looks like the website for our Applied Cryptography course at AUB is now the top search result on Google for "applied cryptography". The website now has over 200 unique visitors a day from all over the world, and AFAIK the course materials are now being used in at least five universities.

When another student beats me to correctly answering a student's question on Piazza about the problem set

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“by far the most likely outcome is for the tech to be used for massive enrichment and centralisation of power into an even smaller elite than before, with even more terrifying mechanisms of control at their disposal.”

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups

Music for hustling

@tobyfox.undertale.com Hi, I hope this message gets through to you somehow. You should really read this book, if you haven't already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_...

I hate that I can’t use the emdash anymore. Thanks AI.

Literally went into the restaurant and said: “my battery is low”

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AUB cats today have turned the lazy dial up to 11

This came in today.

hope to reincarnate as a song

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Hummus… levels… low… must…

THEY’RE LEARNING

The artist @fearofdark.bsky.social returns to shine sunlight into our minds with his signature humility and melodic brilliance sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/track/recroa...

(helped me stay insane)

YES

It's the second week and now on top of cryptography I'm also explaining the separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judiciary branch

Took clips of AUB's Commencement Ceremony! It was glorious. We sang the Lebanese National Anthem and then President Fadlo Khuri started rapping Eminem's Lose Yourself. Although, on the surface, it's funny, it signals a commitment to transgressive, free intellectual expression. youtu.be/GhVoIXVLD0Q

Fantastic album for locking in sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/album/staffc...

I’m at AUB and they’re looping the Lebanese national anthem as the sound test file for the speakers before the opening ceremony today, and I think that’s glorious