Nadim Kobeissi

Attention Americans!!!! If the USA is such a secular country, then how do you explain this please????

She’s my neighbor’s cat! Spent 15 minutes coaxing her inside then delivered her back. We have no idea how she arrived on my balcony!

Woke up and while making coffee noticed that there is a giant fluffy cat on my balcony???? I’m on the third floor?????

Did you catch Jeopardy! last week? AUB made an appearance as one of the answers! #AcademicSky #EduSky

Applied Cryptography — American University of Beirut Learn modern cryptography principles and applications in this comprehensive course covering cryptographic theory, practical implementations, and real-world security systems at the American University ...

Proud to share that my 50 students averaged 82/100 on our final exam, which was administered on Monday.

Many of these students hadn't heard of cryptography prior to registering for the course. Furthermore, the exam was legitimately not easy. See for yourself: appliedcryptography.page/final-exam

Students sending me Majora's Mask mixtape so I can listen to it while correcting final exam. What more could I ask for from this world

This whole trip has been such a Dark World that I’m expecting to find a fountain at the airport gate

Thank you very much to my dear, diligent and indefatigable students for this highly considerate and kind gift. I’ll frame it and hang it in my office forever.

Announced the start of the final exam by stomping the floor with my right foot, hard, and yelling: “strike the earth! Show it what you are made of!”

Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code All major web browsers now support WebAssembly, a low-level bytecode intended to serve as a compilation target for code written in languages like C and C++. A key goal of WebAssembly is performance pa...

"Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code" places a lot of the blame for the worse performance of wasm on register spills, esp. with JS engines' reserved registers. Sounds like APX could actually help by bumping the register count from 16 to 32? ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1901.09...

Breaking news: my personal website now has a full music player complete with WinAmp style animations, so you can listen to my favorite Deltarune covers while on my personal website, a very important thing. nadim.computer

They call it “Metroid Prime 4: Beyond” because I’m Beyond confused at the complaints reviewers had. Amazing game so far

New personal website: nadim.computer

Volt Forge in Metroid Prime 4 is unreal! I don’t know if I’m appreciating so much based on it really being this good or just because this is the first time I play a game after an exhausting four months, but the atmosphere! The music! The level design! The art direction! All unreal!

“Mass produced during the Machine Era but redesigned for the Psychic Era.”

Not sure how anyone can play the Carvex boss fight in Metroid Prime 4 and think it’s not a good game

Interested in the security of MPC implementations?

Peter Scholl (@schollster.bsky.social) and I are looking for research interns to study the theory/practice gap for MPC. We can host multiple interns in Aarhus for the summer 2026.

More information: mpcinthewild.github.io

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Very grateful Toby Fox didn’t succumb
to this

Big news. SMBC is expanding into the romance genre

YouTube video by Ann PENUMBRA PHANTASM

This music really captures exactly how I feel about the past four months: music.youtube.com/watch?v=KBqG...

Wow that second one is beautiful

Zero-Knowledge Proof of Wasta with Applications in Lebanon The GACR ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology.

NEW PAPER: Zero-Knowledge Proof of Wasta with Applications in Lebanon eprint.gacr.info/2025/003/

Ten Cryptographic Fairy Tales: Dedicated to the Retirement of Prof. Peter Y.A. Ryan The GACR ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology.

New publication on the GACR ePrint Archive from David Naccache: eprint.gacr.info/2025/002/

I have learned so much about zero-knowledge merkle tree membership verification this week, for all the wrong reasons

A Probabilistic Challenge-Response Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon Via Papal Visits The GACR ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology.

I am also pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural GACR ePrint paper, "A Probabilistic Challenge-Response Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon Via Papal Visits" (rejected by IACR ePrint): eprint.gacr.info/2025/001/