mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 7hIn case people did not see it, the results from the recent survey to IACR members are up at iacr.org/surveyresult...iacr.orgInternational Association for Cryptologic Research 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026planning a trip to visit my sister-in-law near Pensacola Florida. Uhm...maybe a bad idea. Hurricane watch in process. 😬 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Apparently IBM Almaden (where I used to work from 1989-1997) is being purchased by a company that develops data centers. I guess this is the evolution of computer science. 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Maybe IACR should start a new journal of synthetic cryptology. It would only accept AI papers and only use AI reviews. 🤔 030
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'd like to remind IACR members to sign up for discuss.iacr.org so they can participate in the discussion about how to adapt the society to the new world of publishing and conferences. If you don't have an account you can visit iacr.org/discuss/iacr.orgaccounts on discuss.iacr.org 044
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the first portable computers were called "luggables". That term now seems appropriate for the largest phones. 000
Reposted by @mccurley.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828. 142135262192
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026headlines that say "may have" don't deserve much attention. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There is a bit of codependence in the AI community. Claude-User runs on google cloud. 🧐 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026After a few decades of working in computer science, now that I am retired for a while I've started dabbling again in analytic number theory. This is an interesting time to dive back into mathematics research because LLMs are having a HUGE effect on how we do research. 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026No AI was used in the production of this post. It is a completely authentic piece of shit. 020
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Over the years I have come to the conclusion that ORCID doesn't really solve any problem that we have other than to occasionally distinguish authors who have very similar names. The current wave to require ORCID authentication feels like flailing in the wind. 011
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026a 6am meeting on Monday. this retirement thing may need renewal... 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I decided to skip all future updates to Android because of the lockdown by Google. the only Google app I still use is maps but maybe I'll just give up on the Google version of Android. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's coming up on tarantula mating season in San Jose. That's really a thing. 010
Reposted by @mccurley.bsky.socialDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️ 14172121754
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I somehow enjoy the fact that nextdoor has misconfigured their DMARC setup. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Perfect examples of reviewer 2 behavior. cda.psych.uiuc.edu/writing_clas...cda.psych.uiuc.edu 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026it's good to see the crypto conference remain weird. 020
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I don't understand the angst that some mathematicians are expressing about the impact of LLMs on mathematics. There are real advances being made, including the recent advance on the Riemann Hypothesis: www-cdn.anthropic.com/564f962e6064...www-cdn.anthropic.com 020
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026True car fans will appreciate the sarcasm. Fuck car week. 24hoursoflemons.com/concours-d-l...24hoursoflemons.comConcours d'Lemons - 24 Hours of LEMONS 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Is peer review falling apart? (try to ignore the annoying animation at the top of the page) www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.com‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review warsReview mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? 031
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Amusing tidbit about eprint.iacr.org: the query "guessing guessing" is leading a lot of people to eprint, probably because of eprint.iacr.org/2026/1377eprint.iacr.orgCryptology ePrint ArchiveThe Cryptology ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026first thing I do in the morning when I look at my phone is check the news for mention of a big beautiful funeral. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I have managed to avoid ever flying through Dubai. I don't expect that to ever change. 110
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I've never been bowling. Hacker News reminded me of this. 020
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026My license plate frame on one of my cars reads "I can't complain but sometimes I still do." My wife's says "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty." 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026People forget that album covers were works of art. So was the music. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I've written several LaTeX packages in the past, and also published a couple on CTAN. I just started a new one completely in claude code. If it can understand LaTeX expansion then I figure it can understand anything. 040
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026For the last ten years my alexa has had one job. When I get in the shower, I say to it "play the news" and it plays NPR news. Today it responded with a different voice and started playing something else - all because of Alexa+. There is an old meme: "You had one job. Don't fuck it up." 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026or this: orcid.org/0009-0001-80...orcid.orgORCID 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026no you probably should not refer to this. orcid.org/0009-0006-64...orcid.orgORCID 110
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There is certainly evidence of considerable hype in the AI space, and my experiences with gemini and claude have been mixed. Gemini often just spews nonsense, and when you challenge it directly on something that was wrong, it will back down. So far Claude is more focused, trustworthy, and useful. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The IACR board has put forward a proposal to revamp the publishing of the general conference proceedings for Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt. iacr.org/hybridpropos... I would encourage members to engage in discussion about this on iacr.org/discussiacr.orgConcrete Hybrid Journal Proposal 01911
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I have been using the paid version of claude for both code and mathematics research, and I'm very impressed by it. By contrast, I've been using the free version of Gemini and it continues to feed me nonsense maybe 1/4 of the time. I didn't have any expectation going into this. 110
Reposted by @mccurley.bsky.socialJohn Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Just a reminder that there's only about a week left to leave comments on the OMB proposal that will cripple federally funded research. Here's my attempt to convince you that you should, along with info on how to do so effectively. 17782
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026In my opinion Creative Commons has completely failed to respond appropriately to the willful ignoring of the BY license clause by AI companies. Creative Commons licenses made sense in the age where reuse was by humans. They need to demand more on attribution. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026@alaskaairlines.bsky.social has a completely useless website that is designed to make sure you cannot login. Luckily there are other airlines. 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I know this sounds ridiculous to my east coast friends, but I'm visiting friends near the Monterey Bay area today. I may need to take a jacket. ❄️ 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In a continuation of my "Old guy yells at cloud" series, I note that bing thinks the title of eprint.iacr.org/2022/011 is too long for indexing. Kind of makes you wonder what the hell they are doing up there in Redmond.eprint.iacr.orgSecurity Analysis of Coconut, an Attribute-Based Credential Scheme with Threshold IssuanceCoconut [NDSS 2019] is an attribute-based credential scheme with threshold issuance. We analyze its security properties. To this end, we define an ideal functionality for attribute-based access contro... 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Dear 185.177.72.49. Why the fuck have you sent 2940 HTTP requests to eprint.iacr.org in the last two hours, all returning a 404? I'll give you credit for sending 34 requests that result in a 200 return code, but your hit rate doesn't seem particularly high. Go curl in a corner.eprint.iacr.orgCryptology ePrint ArchiveThe Cryptology ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026a single IP address submitted over 20k searches to print.iacr.org yesterday. That's a WTF.print.iacr.org 010
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It has been an interesting experience to try and control crawling by AI companies the last few months. They are mostly well-behaved, but they seem to have recruited individual users to do their crawling for them. There are also a LOT of PhD students trying to find projects with public corpora. 040
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026There is something quite weird about Facebook telling me to wish a happy birthday to a dead colleague. 000
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I have decided that Google #gemini is completely fucking useless for writing code. The amount of hallucination about code is a constant source of misdirection. 100
mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/i...nesbitt.ioIncident Report: CVE-2026-LGTMA series of unfortunate agents. 021
