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Anna Lysyanskaya

@annalysyanskaya.bsky.social
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www.cs.brown.edu/~anna CS Prof @ Brown. Cryptography, especially privacy-preserving protocols, such as anonymous credentials. she/her American, originally from Ukraine.

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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
For the last few years, Brown's been shaken by (externally caused) crisis after crisis. For a brief moment all was calm, and then Pres Paxson announced that next year will be her last. I am sad... Grateful that she steered this ship away from choppy waters for as long as she did. Thank you, Chris!
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
California bars are doing WHAT?? And this is in 2026 (not 1984) HOW?
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Anna Nagurney @annanagurney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am enjoying working on my plenary talk: Networks, Supply Chains, and Variational Inequalities for an exciting conference: Mathematics for the Real World next month in Odense, Denmark and Kyiv, Ukraine simultaneously. Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me. Info here: icmu.ua/en/events/ap...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Latest in @theatlantic.com . Ukrainians are striking sites around Moscow. They are having strategic and economic impact, but their real target might be Putin. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Ukraine’s Plan to Unnerve Putin
Recent drone attacks in the Moscow area reveal a multifaceted strategy.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I made a sign.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Awesome news! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/t...
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Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This was a blast, and fun to emcee. Thanks, @browndailyherald.bsky.social, for a great article on our Spotlights event! www.browndailyherald.com/article/2026...
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Inaugural ‘Scholarship in the Spotlight’ event highlights applied mathematics, sociology, French and Francophone Studies
Faculty members from the three departments presented their programs’ histories and research.
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EPIC @epic.org · 13/02/2026
An article in the NYT today revealed Meta’s plan to take advantage of current political turmoil to sneak facial recognition into their smart glasses without enforcement bodies or privacy advocates noticing. But EPIC has noticed—and is ensuring that enforcers do, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I’m Alex Vindman and I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Chaos, corruption and sky-rocketing costs are crushing ordinary people, while the billionaires and career politicians profit. I stepped up when my country needed a soldier and now I’m stepping up again to fight for Floridians.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Those of us who have experienced living in a country with censorship (in my case, the USSR) know very well that it is precisely the stuff "they" don't want you to see that is ultimately most watched. Thanks to Bari Weiss's rookie mistake, *everyone* has seen this segment by now.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
NYTimes: he's been found dead. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Update from Glenn Thrush
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
My family and I are OK, but we live on campus and this is very scary. brown.edu
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Brown University
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2025
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The IACR in the news. We made a mistake, and the lesson is: Even cryptographers can't successfully run a relatively small online election that respects the secrecy of the ballot. Don't try this in national elections, people! @verifiedvoting.org
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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸 My favorite moment from yesterday’s #NoKings protest, veterans around me and a crowd of thousands of protestors chanting USA!
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Conor McDonough @conormcdonough.com · 18/10/2025
#NoKings in Providence, Rhode Island #nokingsri
The Independent Man atop the Rhode Island State House looms over an estimated crowd of 32,000 for the No Kings protest in Providence, RI
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Brown responds.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The turmoil last Spring was only the beginning...
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A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence
The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.
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Verified Voting @verifiedvoting.org · 18/08/2025
No president can decide how Americans vote — that power belongs to the states. Verified Voting wants to remind you that most voters already use paper ballots, & real solutions mean audits, cybersecurity & support for local officials. Read our statement: verifiedvoting.org/statement-ex...
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Election Veteran: No President Has The Authority To Run Elections
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I am so honored to join @verifiedvoting.org's Board of Advisors!
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
So. Much. Popcorn.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Identity/credential services should not be snooping on us. #nophonehome
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Digital Identity Leaders and Privacy Experts Sound the Alarm on Invasive ID Systems | American Civil Liberties Union
Signatories, including the ACLU, warn officials of “Phone Home” feature of digital IDs that allows the government to track people’s daily lives
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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · 23/05/2025
The Economist runs a cover story on Trump's war on science www.economist.com/le... while the New York Times breaks down the NSF cuts www.nytimes.com/inte...
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
First they hit us with cuts to Federal grant funding. Now they are hitting us by imposing taxes on endowments. What makes America truly great, what has, over centuries, made it a hub of thought and innovation, is what's targeted here. The Senate must stop this -- call your Senator now!
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My colleague Tom Doeppner retired after 49 years of teaching at @BrownCSDept. On his last day of class, a whole bunch of faculty and staff showed up and sang a song we made for him. You can feel the love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2254...
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A Song For Tom Doeppner At His Last Lecture
YouTube video by Brown CS
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard did the right thing!
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It ought to be clear by now that we are all going to the dogs, and antisemitism is only a pretext. (FWIW, I'm a Zionist.) Our only option is whether we do so with our heads held high, or whether we will first sing a swan song to their tune. I strongly prefer the former. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/02/2025
After three years of failure, Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So I won US election but lost German. Plusses. Minuses.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...
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Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 13/02/2025
I'm proud to be among 107+ security experts and organizations calling on the UK Home Office to abandon its push for backdoors into encrypted services. Weakening encryption puts everyone at risk. Read the letter and join the fight for digital security.
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EPIC @epic.org · 11/02/2025
🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵 Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
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EPIC @epic.org · 28/01/2025
#DataPrivacyDay reminds us about the importance of protecting personal information in our hyperconnected world. EPIC is proud to fight every day for digital transparency, privacy, and data safeguards. Join us in the privacy movement & protect your data by checking out the data privacy tips below. ⬇️
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Stefan Dziembowski @stedziembowski.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The videos and slides from the Warsaw IACR Summer School on Post-Quantum Cryptography 2024 are now live. YT playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Website (with slides): ideas-ncbr.pl/en/events/pq...
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Warsaw IACR Summer School on Post-Quantum Cryptography 2024 - YouTube
This playlist contains recordings of lectures from the Warsaw IACR Summer School on Post-Quantum Cryptography 2024. The event took place on July 15-19, 2024,...
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Timothy Edgar @timothy-edgar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If we are serious about the national security risks of Chinese spies (or anyone else) getting our data from social media, banning TikTok won't do it: we need a real privacy law. My interview with @victorblackwell7.bsky.social and Amara Walker on @cnn.com video.snapstream.net/Play/ayGtaqd...
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CNN SUN 1_19_25__TIMOTHY EDGAR -CNN This Morning Weekend-2025-01-19.mp4
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Timothy Edgar @timothy-edgar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The American people deserved better than this rushed Supreme Court decision on the #TikTok ban that ignored the viable alternatives we outlined in our national security scholars brief. My BBC interview with @anitaanand.bsky.social. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...
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TikTok updates: TikTok faces ban in US by Sunday after Supreme Court rejects appeal
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold a law that would ban the hugely popular social media app in the US.
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Timothy Edgar @timothy-edgar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Whatever the risks to privacy and national security of #TikTok there are better alternatives that don't violate free speech. My interview with the Harvard Gazette. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Is TikTok’s time nearly up? — Harvard Gazette
Privacy and cybersecurity law expert examines national security, First Amendment issues as popular video website faces legal deadline.
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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · 06/01/2025
Cynthia Dwork and Ingrid Daubechies among the recipients of the National Medal of Science. www.whitehouse.gov/b...
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President Biden Honors Nation’s Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators | The White House
Today, President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—our nation’s
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is an organization that I very strongly support and urge you to do so, also.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Reviewer 2 strikes again!
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/11/2024
Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/CTZvmGD 🖊️ @jasonadamk.bsky.social
Two people frown at a phone. One says to the other, “Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky.”
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@benadida.com
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crypto_doodles @cryptodoodles.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Thank you, Ben! That is exactly who they are.
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Cryptographers comment on the EU Digital Identity Wallet architecture and reference framework: github.com/eu-digital-i...
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Cryptographers' Feedback on the EU Digital Identity’s ARF · Issue #200 · eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework
The EUDI Wallet Team of the European Commission invited subject-matter experts (i.e. cryptographers) to participate in a Webex meeting on June 5th or 6th, 2024, in which the team presented their cu...
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
34 x guilty = justice!
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
The word "incremental" should not be the kiss of death that it is. All research is incremental: increment by increment, you make progress! Katalin Karikó on how the discovery that brought us the mRNA Covid vaccine was received (from her memoir "Breaking Through," HIGHLY RECOMMEND):
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Anna Lysyanskaya @annalysyanskaya.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Please urge your Representative to sign the discharge petition to vote on the aid to Ukraine.
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crypto_doodles @cryptodoodles.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
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