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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Say hello to the first practical post-quantum private payment protocol for account-based blockchains!

Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our work on multi-message multi-recipient public key encryption is out! We build on Kyber (ML-KEM) and get great efficiency. Kudos to Hongxiao Wang for leading this work!

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We’re getting close to ePrint 2025/555… is everyone ready for a new cryptography meltdown? #ePrint555

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🎥 The recording of our inaugural Distinguished Lecture by Prof Martin Hellman is now available. Thanks to the big crowd who joined the session and for all the great questions! Recording link 👇 www.monash.edu/it/events/20... #OpenScience #GlobalSecurity #Cryptography

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The Imperative for Open Science with Professor Martin Hellman

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Just one day away from our Distinguished Lecture by ACM Turing Award recipient Prof Martin Hellman on The Imperative for Open Science and the future of geopolitical security! This is a talk not to be missed! It’s online, free & open to anyone interested! events.humanitix.com/distinguishe...

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We’re honoured to host a distinguished lecture by Turing Award recipient Prof Martin Hellman on “The Imperative for Open Science”. The talk is online and open to anyone interested to join. See the attached image for more details

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coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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Daniel Slamanig @drl3c7er.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We are organising the International Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PrivCrypt) - co-located with ACNS 2025 end of June in beautiful Munich. Submission deadline is March 21, 2025 (AoE). Please help spread the word! 🙏 privcryptworkshop.github.io

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PrivCrypt 2025

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Olivier @gloupin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Ecole Polytechnique is hiring 4 assistant prof / full prof in cybersecurity. (Crypto, networks, forensics, ...) Team application are welcome! gargantua.polytechnique.fr/siatel-web/a... Come join us!

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Gargantua École polytechnique

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We're hiring multiple PhD candidates for our ARC-funded project on fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE), SNARKs & more Job listing 👇 iacr.org/jobs/item/3840 Apply via docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Some info on PhD at Monash/in Australia mfesgin.github.io/supervision/ Please help to share!

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Fully Funded PhD student

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/01/2025

💡 Making slides, giving talks, and looking for illustrations for Alice, Bob, and the whole crew? Simón Oya (UBC) has drawn fresh, beautiful ones and releasing them under CC BY-SA 4.0 license: simonoya.com/drawings/ (discovered through the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop)

This is a low-res sprite sheet of the pictures available

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Matteo Maffei @matteomaffei.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Congratulations to @erkantairi.bsky.social , former PhD student in the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien, on his FWF Schrödinger fellowship, which will allow him to spend 2 years at UC Berkeley and then 1 year at IST Austria. I am very proud of you and all the best for the future!

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Martin R. Albrecht @malb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Khanh and Eamonn are organising UK Crypto Day on 20 February at King's College London. Registration is free (and open) but required: uk-crypto-day.github.io/2025/02/20/u... Help us spread the word and see you there.

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UK Crypto Day: 20 February 2025

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is a significant result if correct in my view. I didn’t check the technical details yet, but they get Dilithium-like signature but with about 3x reduction in signature size; almost as compact as Falcon.

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Apparently one does not need to fly very long to do this..

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A “heuristic” proof? What does that mean???

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#Eurocrypt 2025 (initial) reviews are out! Enjoy(!) Asiacrypt everyone!

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Matteo Maffei @matteomaffei.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I have an opening for several Ph.D. positions at TU Wien. Topics of interest include formal methods for security (e.g., for crypto protocols and machine learning analysis), web security, and blockchains. Apply online at buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024

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University Assistant Prae-Doc (all genders)

TU-ID: 192 | 2024 | 48 | 243843

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Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Test-of-time award for Asiacrypt 2009 is awarded two amazing papers on lattice-based cryptography! Big congratulations to my former PhD supervisor and now close collaborator Ron Steinfeld and other recipients including Vadim Lyubashevsky and Damien Stehle!

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