@smartcryptology.bsky.social
Cryptographer
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Do you use a cloud-based password manager? So what's your threat model?
Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even
if we wanted to)."
We decided to test this… 1/n
"This is vibes-based policy making, not evidence-based policy making" — me talking on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast just now about the MPs pushing for a social media ban for under 16s.
16.02.2026 08:26 — 👍 183 🔁 42 💬 6 📌 2CFP says:
"Original research papers on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering theory, implementations and applications, and related fields, are solicited for submission to PKC 2026"
Reviewer B says:
"I do not think it aligns well with the theoretical focus expected at this conference"
FHE.org would like to thank @leastauthority.bsky.social for their continued sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #LeastAuthority
bloody Normans, coming over here and holding the battle of Hastings not even in Hastings but in Battle.
12.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Today I was looking at an article on Multi-Party Threshold #Cryptography and wondered why "threshold" has only one h. Turns out the etymology is not "thresh-hold" at all, but "thresh-wold", possibly from the Middle English word "wold" meaning "forest". Mind blown.
07.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Last chance: the early registration deadline is tomorrow, February 6 (AoE).
rwc.iacr.org/2026/registr...
Matt goes onto say.... "I tend to fall into the latter group"
Like Matt, I also fall into this group
"The Internet has mostly divided itself into people who already know these allegations are true, because they don’t trust Meta and of course Meta can read your messages — and a second set of people who also don’t trust Meta but mostly think this is unsupported nonsense"
Well said Matt.
Come be part of Cedarcrypt, our historic new initiative to grow cryptography research, development and representation in the Levant region!
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The IACR board sent a survey to members last year, and it took us a while to analyze the results and publish findings. You can see them at iacr.org/surveyresults/
03.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2Looking forward to this...
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
It has been an exciting past week for Zama.
Now the results are in. The first sealed bid auction conducted using Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and it all went smoothly.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption is now here and ready to use.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/zama-p...
Reminder that the next submission deadline for IACR's Communications in Cryptology is next Monday.
Remember this is a fully reviewed Diamond Open Access (free for authors, free for readers) journal , published by the premier cryptographic society on earth.
cic.iacr.org
Leuven named among best places to visit in Europe in 2026
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1931...
The ticker is $ZAMA
www.zama.org/post/the-tic...
Looking forward to the NIST workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes next week. It has been a long time since the project was first conceived by NIST, but now excited it is really all systems go.
csrc.nist.gov/events/2026/...
My talk will be on Tuesday
FHE.org would like to thank Brightside for their sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference.
Sponsorships like Brightside's make it possible to provide a quality conference with great speakers and free student admission.
#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #brightside
It’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.
16.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 55 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2
Nice attack from COSIC on headphones...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j45...
Details here...
whisperpair.eu
Belgium has a cyber security unicorn....
www.belganewsagency.eu/ghent-cyber-...
New resource added to FHE.org /resources :
"AAAI 2024 Tutorial: Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning using the OpenFHE Library" by Ian Quah, Yuriy Polyakov, and Sukanya Mandal.
fhe.org/resources/#0...
#FHE #Homomorphicencryption #OpenFHE
Craig Gentry gave a talk at last years FHE.org, so it is only appropriate that Shai is giving a talk at this years FHE.org. Between them Gentry and Halevi wrote the early playbook on Homomorphic Encryption
13.01.2026 15:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs
🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs
🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs
🟢 All the 4 Green MPs
🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs
➡️ No Reform MPs
Best way to start RWC week in Taipei is to go to FHE.org....
12.01.2026 13:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Registration for Real World Crypto 2026 is now open! rwc.iacr.org/2026/registr...
09.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0IACR just published Volume 2, Issue 4 of the IACR Communications in Cryptology: see cic.iacr.org/i/2/4. This issue consists of 39 papers.
09.01.2026 08:12 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Real World Crypto 2026 program is now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/program...
We look forward to seeing many of you!
I think this has been a great success. Thanks to all the people involved in both the initial discussions and in the implementation.
Also, obviously, thanks to all the authors
