I am about to try Cypriot “hummus”. If it offends me we are canceling Cedarcrypt and going back home

Cedarcrypt final prep music

Excited to soon be moderating the most baller panel discussion of all time at Cedarcrypt next week!!!

THREE DAYS UNTIL CEDARCRYPT

Week 3 of highly dedicated and ambitious weight lifting program at the gym, and my biggest realization is just how unnaturally, unbelievably, terrifyingly weak my core is. It’s like I was born without one. It’s really important to catch this stuff and work on it while you still can!

I'm looking for a job! I'm an experienced researcher in cryptography. My focus is on the transition to post-quantum cryptographic protocols and protocols related to blockains. If that sounds like someone you might want to hire or you know someone who might, let's talk!

I don’t think people should panic based on anything djb has written recently. But I do agree with his conclusion that ECC hybrids are a good idea. I also do continue to be skeptical of the “ECC hybrids are just too hard to get right” arguments.

Did you know? If you are doing weight lifting to gain muscle mass, you need to eat nine million kilograms of protein a day, without obtaining a caloric surplus. This is the lower limit, so try to eat ten billion kilos of protein if you can!

Today marks twenty years since the passing of my father, Prof. Hassan Kobeissi. Seen here on the right next to my mom’s brother, Ahmad Beydoun. My dad taught philosophy, wrote on epistemology, and was involved in translating notably Mircea Eliade and Nietzsche into Arabic.

Ranking of Kings is my favorite anime of all time. Just finished watching it. It’s just one season, I strongly urge everyone to watch it. Incredible writing. Incredible, incredible writing!!!!

I am deeply distressed by German cuisine as a concept. I strongly suspect that it’s a conspiracy by the Germans to cause trauma in any other culture that actually knows what good food — or even just food — is.

Red Bull, the scam compound whistleblower from my story below, is struggling to rebuild his life in a new country. He desperately needs tuition funds to keep his student visa, avoid deportation and stay safe. Anything you can give would go a long way: www.gofundme.com/f/support-wh... Thank you!

I was about to do deadlifts at the gym today and this track came on my AirPods, hilarious deadlift music music.youtube.com/watch?v=q722...

Deltarune Chapter 5 came out IDK if you saw

Another great one.

It's time to cancel your Mullvad subscription:

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529)

Good riddance to Franziskus Kiefer, Cryspen's former scumbag-in-chief. Glad to see that place has cleansed itself from its corrupting elements.

Me IRL this week

It’s 38c outside, but thankfully three weeks ago I made the single most brilliant decision of my life and installed an air conditioning unit in my bedroom, which means that I can now roll around on my bed while shouting HOHOHO NICE FLUFFY COOL AIR HOHOHO (my activity for the past half hour)

Brilliant

The Israeli army committed a massacre on Saturday in the town of Barish, Tyre district, killing an entire family. A strike this morning targeted a residential building, killing Hassan Khalil, Israa Obeid, and their two sons, Ali and Mohamad, inside their home.

Today’s gym music

1 week until DELTARUNE Chapter 5! Are you ready!? (jumping around and spinning in place, jumping on your head, jumping on the bed, jumping around)

Today I learned that a *third* former student got accepted into a top grad program abroad as a direct consequence of my applied cryptography mentorship in Lebanon last year. Walking in Paris with my chest so puffed from pride that it’s pushing cars out of the way and denting buildings

I predicted this!

Today’s gym music was perfect

This Lebanese dish is called, in Arabic, “macaroni with yogurt, garlic and crushed mint”, and that’s exactly what it is!

Finally got the chance to hang this in my home office today.

My applied cryptography course's summer semester started up this week. Here's an email I received yesterday from a student. I think that people should see this.

If only there was a way to encrypt chats

Pleased to announce revolutionary changes to my applied cryptography quiz answer keys

"Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations [... Anthropic] had installed half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications“

AS PUNISHMENT, THEY CRAVED TO IMPRISON MY BODY. BUT I’M FAST, FAST, CLEVER, CLEVER. THEY LOST THE CHASE, AND LOCKED UP THEIR ENTIRE RACE, BUILDING A PRISON AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD. NOW I’M THE ONLY FREE ONE.

It’s a drone day (like every day now) #beirut #lebanon

Also, here's a short newsletter. toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/...

Sorry to keep you waiting! DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will be released on June 24th at 11:00AM EDT. Here's the trailer if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5y2...

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DELTARUNE CHAPTER 5 IN TWO WEEKS

It was he, the clown, that told me the Knight's brilliance...About the fountains' glory. Funny little man. How his jokes and dances made us chuckle. A shame that he had to be tricked away, by his closest companion. the magician, Seam, who's smile has gone empty since that day.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

Today is both: - First day of the summer semester of my applied cryptography course! WE'RE BACK BABY - Deltarune Chapter 5 is likely to be announced (during today's Nintendo Direct) TODAY IS A GOOD DAY

FATT Chance: On the Robustness of Standalone and Hybrid ML-KEM Key Exchange in TLS 1.3 (Nadim Kobeissi) ia.cr/2026/1147