Carsten Baum

Denmark is best in EU in getting workers back into jobs (twice the average rate). They also do tons of RCTs to find out what works and apply behavior science. Can’t say it’s causal, but it’s an interesting correlation at least.

SPD stabil an der Seite großindustrieller Gasproduzenten und nicht dem kleinen Mann.

Abbrennen den Laden, braucht niemand.

That one time you wish they'd have used ChatGPT

Apple announces that TLS client connections in version 26+ will be using hybrid PQ X25519MLKEM768 by default

support.apple.com/en-us/122756

Submission link: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Important dates:

The deadline for contributed talks is Sunday, June 15th, 2025

Notification will be sent out no later than Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

The program will consist of a few invited talks and contributed talks. We encourage submissions exploring a range of techniques for privacy-preserving machine learning.

Confirmed invited speakers & call for contributed talks: crypto-ppml.github.io/2025/

The 7th workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning will take place on August 17, 2025 (Sunday), as an affiliated event of the 45th CRYPTO 2025 conference.

Congrats!

New York Times headline "Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing man for weeks"

Xkcd #538, comparing crypto nerd imagination of breaking RSA vs reality of torturing the password holder.

Ahem.

Kandidat für den Ignoble?

Nice work! Great that you cut through all the marketing :)

Save the date! The next NordiCrypt will take place on Monday June 30th in Aarhus. We will start around 10:00. More details soon at sites.google.com/view/nordicr...

Oh wow, this is really great work. Recent results on PCGs allowed much more efficient MPC preprocessing (among other things) using somewhat new assumptions. Apparently, these assumptions are too strong.

Congratulations to the authors on their IACR grant slam of breaks :)

Congratulations :)

This is cool heimberger.xyz/oprfs.html

Zählt ein dummer Hut?

Düpdüp... 🦈

Never thought I'd participate in making a whole scientific conference dance the Macarena.
Yet here we are.

Oops :)

Spend them wisely!

Our paper on attacking concurrent MPC implementations is finally on eprint 🎉
(And @schollster.bsky.social will present it at S&P 2025!)

A summary 🧵

Technical experts call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a seat on the table of the European Commission’s Technology Roadmap on encryption - European Digital Rights (EDRi) EDRi, in a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts, published an open letter today to call for a scientific evidence-based approach to encryption.

I'm one of the signers of this open letter to the Commission asking to ensure that civil society, human rights lawyerd and academics get properly involved in the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption. edri.org/our-work/tec...

Satellite collision detection via MPC is now faster...

conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/...

#cryptography

It takes a certain academic age and amount of accomplishments that allows you to use Comic Sans AND get away with it.

Don't forget to submit your most hilarious talk, musical performance, general announcement or recent result to the Eurocrypt 2025 Rump Session!

Absolutely sure we won't. I'm just thinking that worldwide we'll see more investments into this, so globally the decline won't be as severe 5 years from now. It's sound economic policy to invest into this, if you have the human resources.

Yep that's what's stupid...

And you get the best of our university graduates because education is free in most of Europe and we didn't stop them from emigrating.

Are we now gonna set up a spreadsheet to check who benefited most?

We pay less for drugs because of how our Healthcare systems are set up. Basically the people who determine pricing here are a little less corrupt.

Money and people will primarily shift elsewhere. Other countries want to have those results and monetize them to the same extent. If more talented Europeans stay in Europe, there's ultimately more money here to support that research.