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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 1h

Australian and Chinese cryptographers are the only demographics that rejected the proposal while Belgian ones supported it unanimously.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026

The report from the AI + TCS Working Group held at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social is out, including "twelve concrete near-term recommended actions." Currently reading it: while I have some reservations, but there is some good in it! Notably items 7, 8, and 11. simons.berkeley.edu/ai-tcs-worki...

7. Best works and technical talks in interviews.

- Emphasize quality over quantity. Evaluate candidates on no more than three works of their choosing, with this fact explicit in the instructions for candidates and their letter writers.

- Test technical depth. Evaluate the depth of the candidates’ understanding of the aforementioned works more than was done normally until now.

8. Additional postdocs. Establish additional postdoctoral positions for the TCS community, a temporary measure that will be phased out after a few years.

9. Workshops for identifying new theory directions. First, organize a workshop (or several) with the goal of identifying a list of modern topics related to AI; and second, run a series of workshops on each of these topics to identify fundamental directions and establish foundations and agendas for future work.

10. “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute. Establish a recurring and widely accessible “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute.

11. Opportunities for training and evaluation without AI assistance. To ensure development of necessary skills for a successful career in academia, a PhD in TCS should partially include training and evaluation components where the use of AI is forbidden.

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Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We finally finished the universal signature forgery for 1024-bit RSA! 2^32 oracle queries, 1200 core years precomputation, 180 core years for an individual forgery, and 3 years of human labor (no AI involved) by Laura, Adam, Nadia, Emmanuel and me to pull of this computation against real HSMs.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026

I resigned from JibJab over what I believe are dangerous intelligences creating deepfakes

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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our latest “Crypto in the Wild” project, analysing secure email gateways. We give 29 cryptographic attacks on 4 different products, from SEPPmail, Cisco, Proton and CipherMail. Paper to appear at ACM CCS 2026.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'Megan recalled asking Austin what he was doing on his phone. She said he replied, “Talking to the AI.” When she pressed — asking “About what?” — he said, “Trauma.”' This is a heartbreaking read.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 09/09/2026

For context, to ground the conversation and explain one of the issues. USD20M, which is a self-reported (likely low-balled) estimate of what OpenAI burned in *one week* in their scooping race, would fund 100 full-time postdoctoral positions for 2 years (including overhead). 100 postdocs. 2 years.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sorry, XKCD.

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Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Registration for the PPML workshop in Aarhus November 2-4 is now open. The deadline for talk submissions is also this week (September 10). Feel free to reshare! p1dpml.github.io/workshops/wo...

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Workshop 2 | Data Privacy in Machine Learning

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Tianxin Tang @koptxin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

dontpastetheai.com (currently struggling with this a lot with masters students...)

dontpastetheai.com

Don't paste the AI.

If someone asks you a question, paste your answer — not the chatbot's.

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Martin R. Albrecht @malb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As funny as it is that they simply dropped frida.re on Encrochat devices, to me the two big Encrochat questions that still aren't resolved are:

frida.re

Frida • A world-class dynamic instrumentation toolkit

Observe and reprogram running programs on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Android, FreeBSD, and QNX

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Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com · 17/08/2026

We also bought EncroChat's original domain (encrochat.ch) --- it now hosts our paper and other info.

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A Real-World Law-Enforcement Hack: The Case of Encrochat

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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Signal is the gold standard for secure messengers. We broke Signal’s integrity (twice) in this paper via message injection attacks. @kientuong114.bsky.social presented this week at #USENIX and he and Noemi will present it again at #WAC (Crypto workshop) this weekend. Catch their talk if you can!

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 10/08/2026

So many good points in this post by @nsaphra.bsky.social: only quoting a couple, to encourage you to read the others. "My colleagues and students adopt the writing quirks they read throughout the day, and their own writing becomes more like an LLM’s." nsaphra.net/post/uncanny/

To find a nugget of meaning, the user must sift through mounds of slop—and some simply won’t bother. They’ll serve the slop unfiltered to another party, who performs this interpretive labor themselves, only to discover that the underlying meaning does not exist. When someone expects me to perform their share of this interpretive labor, I get angry. Grice’s rules are, in essence, rules of etiquette—their unwarranted violation is rude.

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Only through the title of this paper did I learn that there's a cryptographic technique that sounds like using a popular dating app. The community will be delighted.

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Still less of a detour than when my direct flight LA to Sydney ended up being a connection in Hong Kong.

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lucky you. I once booked a connection through Bangkok and ended up in Dubai anyway.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 17/07/2026

Well. That is quite the headline from Le Monde Diplomatique.

A poster with the headline from the monthly edition of Le Monde Diplomatique: "Tout le monde déteste l'IA" (Everyone hates AI)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 17/07/2026

Take some time (very little) to weigh on this: "Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (not that I want to influence anyone, but my own position is along the lines of "hell no.")

docs.google.com

Now is the Time to Give LLMS Access to the ACM Digital Library Why ACM Believes the benefits outweigh the risks in opening up the ACM Digital Library to large lan...

ACM welcomes your feedback! All responses will be read and considered by ACM.

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mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The 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/discuss

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Concrete Hybrid Journal Proposal

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The documentation now includes a section on security fixes. mp-spdz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/se...

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Security Fixes — MP-SPDZ documentation

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School of Computer Science, University of Sydney @sydneycompsci.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨📣 Qiang Tang and @aravind16coiner.bsky.social are organising a one-day cryptography school on August 7, 2026. Open to UG, master's, and PhD students. Free attendance, but registration required! sydney-cryptography-group.github.io/activities-e...

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Work as in creating or breaking?

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week and other self-help slop, is seeing his book sales crater because people are getting their advice from ChatGPT instead lmao

ChatGPT, powered by the updated GPT-3.5 model, launched on November 30, 2022.

There was a gentle -5% slip in 2023, then -13% in 2024, and then the floor disappears: -46% in 2025, followed by an even steeper -57% pace this year. If the run-rate holds, my catalog will sell roughly 80% fewer print copies in 2026 than it did in 2022, with almost all of that happening since LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT exploded in use.

But what about ebooks and audio?

Looking at all formats (print + ebook + audio) for the catalog in 2025, the second half of the year was down ~45% versus the first half.

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Gernot Heiser @microkerneldude.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

UNSW Sydney is #hiring systems faculty – talk to me if you’re interested. This is for mid-career researchers in the AU Lecturer–Senior Lecturer–Associate Professor–Professor progression. Tenure is orthogonal to position level – closes 31 July. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au

Associate Professor in Systems

Join an organisation that is shaping the future direction of modern computing systems in Australia, in a senior academic role that combines research leadership, strategic contribution, and excellence ...

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

UNSW Sydney is hiring an associate professor and a lecturer in cryptography, and the description explicitly mentions *secure computation*. Didn't you want to live in the sunniest of the most livable cities in the world?

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au

Associate Professor in Cryptography

Join an organisation that is shaping the future direction of cryptography and secure computation in Australia, in a senior academic role that combines research leadership, strategic contribution, and ...

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Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is · 02/06/2026

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...

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Inside GNSS Media & Research • May/June 2026 • 62

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Peter Vamplew @amp1874.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A new policy from IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications "An author may submit at most 36 new manuscripts to the IEEE TWC each year. Submissions exceeding this limit will be rejected without review. " 36!!! Somehow I don't think I'm likely to have a problem with this.

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Fernando @fernand0.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

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60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

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Mathy Vanhoef @vanhoefm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Nominate yourself to help review papers for USENIX Security 2027! sec-rms.com/submit-appli... (or rms.swag.cispa.de/submit-appli... ). Deadline: May 28, 2026. We're looking for both senior and junior people. See Andrei Sabelfeld's LinkedIn post for more info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Signal PC interest - USENIX Security Symposium

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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 20/05/2026

Grattan Institute’s new report shows that letting Australian homebuyers choose the car-parking they need will: → make housing cheaper, → get more homes built faster, and → create more walkable cities.

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Sofia Celi @claucece.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Go MAYO!! Moving to the third round of the PQC NIST process!

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Andrea Basso @andreavbasso.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Round 3 of the NIST additional signatures process announced! 🎉 And SQIsign is part of it!! ⛷️⛷️

Screenshot of email announcement saying:

Nine Candidates Advance to the Third Round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the PQC Standardization Process

After 18 months of evaluation, NIST has selected nine candidates for the third round of the Additional Digital Signatures for the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Process. The advancing digital signature algorithms are:

FAEST
HAWK
MAYO
MQOM
QR-UOV
SDitH
SNOVA
SQIsign
UOV

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michael veale @michae.lv · 28/04/2026

south africa withdraws own government AI policy over hallucinated citations www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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Fredrik Dahlgren @fegge.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Two weeks ago, Google published a paper proving in zero-knowledge that they had an efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm. Today, Trail of Bits can prove that we have an even better implementation which beats Google's on all metrics! 🫢 blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...

A table listing total operations, number of qubits, and Toffoli-gate count for Google's low-gate and low-qubit implementations, and Trail of Bits' implementation. The Trail of Bits implementation beats Google's on every metric.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is a great (and horrifying?) piece about how Sam, in preparation for her marriage, was pulled into the bridal algorithm. Her experience of social media changed completely overnight www.404media.co/wedding-plan...

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I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

As a #2026Bride, the constant, aggressive content started to make me feel like I was losing sight of what mattered. And I'm far from alone.

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

A very nice explainer why "if you're so worried about quantum computers, why haven't they factored 21 yet?" isn't a very convincing argument. Look at the labels of the graph, and how extremely close the various lines are for factoring 21 and 2048 bit numbers. Polynomial scaling remains […]

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Original post on infosec.exchange

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Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So Atlanta is to Sydney what Mexico City is to San Diego?

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COSIC @cosic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🎉 Proud moment for COSIC! Prof. Nigel Smart has received the #RSAC 2026 Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics for his groundbreaking work in #MPC, Threshold #Cryptography & foundational crypto research. Congratulations, Nigel! 👏 www.rsaconference.com/library/pres...

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RSAC Set to Honor Excellence in the Field of Mathematics Awards, Inaugural Test of Time Awards at RSAC 2026 Conference

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Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A very nice blogpost explaining our work - slices right through the marketing from the vendors: medium.com/reading-sh/y...

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Your password manager’s ‘zero knowledge’ promise is broken

What ETH Zurich’s USENIX Security paper means for anyone who stores passwords in the cloud.

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