sasha @sasha.place · 03/09/2026love the sentence in the Eurocrypt Call for Papers saying they're not gonna give out best paper awards if all the papers are bad. 010
sasha @sasha.place · 06/08/2026New preprint! a bunch of improvements and cool techniques for better zero-knowledge proofs of image/video editing. Will write more about it soon. Read here: eprint.iacr.org/2026/1598 031
sasha @sasha.place · 09/07/2026more crypto papers should start with sentences that read like Star Wars scrolling text 0211
sasha @sasha.place · 27/05/2026random cryptography pet peeve: not everything needs syntax and definitions! multiple papers in the "image/video editing with zk-SNARKs" literature make cryptographic definitions for what it means to edit a video. the proof is then basically "it reduces to the security of the underlying SNARK". 120
sasha @sasha.place · 29/04/2026it brings me great pleasure to announce that i found a codebase that copies this typo from this paper 020
sasha @sasha.place · 23/04/2026fun stuff from digging around on eprint.iacr.org : Jens Groth updated a paper from 2009 this week. 110
sasha @sasha.place · 01/02/2026typod zero-knowledge as "aero-knowledge". we're going aero knowledge baby 😎 010
sasha @sasha.place · 27/01/2026a unique winter sight in College Park: a common sledding location is the hill next to the IONQ office :) 000
sasha @sasha.place · 29/08/2025this week is my 1 year anniversary of starting grad school. I have been reading 1-2 papers (or equivalent amount of a textbook) per week most of the time. here is the list of papers i have read since starting. I am pretty proud of it! here is a list of papers that were highlights: 160
sasha @sasha.place · 27/07/2025ticketmaster is officially headquartered in West Virginia? kind of interesting 000
sasha @sasha.place · 02/07/2025the billing code for shoulder pain is 25.519! cryptography is everywhere! 020
sasha @sasha.place · 14/06/2025I really liked this blog post explaining this internet math meme from a few years ago vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025... 010
sasha @sasha.place · 02/06/20254 days to IEEE S&P deadline. stuck in the phase of paper writing where people keep asking me to slightly change the intro and framing paragraphs of various sections. 100
sasha @sasha.place · 22/04/2025i asked a question on stackoverflow for the first time in a few years and pretty soon after people swooped in on my post to do random copy editing?? what are we doing here 100
sasha @sasha.place · 10/03/2025the opposite of the denominator is the nominator. didn't know i missed that part of fractions in elementary school 1101
sasha @sasha.place · 09/03/2025"the brains of fruit flies use bloom filters" is apparently a true fact from this paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 010
sasha @sasha.place · 12/02/2025new salvo in the war for the 16 GB of RAM on my laptop: my VSCode installed an AI spellcheck thing when I blindly clicked on "install suggested extensions" for something. Each window I had open spawned a process just called `java` that was using ~500 MB of RAM!! 1.5 GB across all my windows. 100
sasha @sasha.place · 02/02/2025for security purposes. this is used in a few places. If you look at the constructors of this struct (github.com/0xPolygonZer...), 6 out of 7 constructors of this class construct a quadratic extension element with insufficient entropy. 100
sasha @sasha.place · 17/12/2024google thinks that one of the important statistics about Sofia Bulgaria is when it was conquered by Krum 000
