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A thread in which @sockpuppet.org presents some of the juiciest morsels from our paper at zkae.io :
February 17, 2026 at 2:19 PM
A thread in which @sockpuppet.org presents some of the juiciest morsels from our paper at zkae.io :
A very nice blogpost explaining our work - slices right through the marketing from the vendors: medium.com/reading-sh/y...
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A very nice blogpost explaining our work - slices right through the marketing from the vendors: medium.com/reading-sh/y...
Do you use a cloud-based password manager? So what's your threat model?
Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even
if we wanted to)."
We decided to test this… 1/n
Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even
if we wanted to)."
We decided to test this… 1/n
February 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Do you use a cloud-based password manager? So what's your threat model?
Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even
if we wanted to)."
We decided to test this… 1/n
Vendors like Bitwarden, Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password offer you "Zero Knowledge Encryption", with statements like: "Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even
if we wanted to)."
We decided to test this… 1/n
Miracle of miracles: Deutsche
Bahn runs almost on time!
Bahn runs almost on time!
Almost in Karlsruhe for this talk. Looking forward to some great discussions with the KIT crypto and security community.
We are back with another KASTEL Distinguished Lecture! This time Prof. Dr. Kenneth Paterson from ETH Zurich will talk about 'Cryptography in the Wild'. As always there will be time for Q&A afterwards and everybody is welcome.
@kennyog.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social
@kennyog.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Miracle of miracles: Deutsche
Bahn runs almost on time!
Bahn runs almost on time!
Almost in Karlsruhe for this talk. Looking forward to some great discussions with the KIT crypto and security community.
We are back with another KASTEL Distinguished Lecture! This time Prof. Dr. Kenneth Paterson from ETH Zurich will talk about 'Cryptography in the Wild'. As always there will be time for Q&A afterwards and everybody is welcome.
@kennyog.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social
@kennyog.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Almost in Karlsruhe for this talk. Looking forward to some great discussions with the KIT crypto and security community.
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"The heroes of my fields have slain one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, while the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one" is such a clear, brutal rebuttal to Manhattan Project mythology, and now the most venal idiots alive are bringing back diseases because they can.
Degree-Off
xkcd.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:10 PM
"The heroes of my fields have slain one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, while the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one" is such a clear, brutal rebuttal to Manhattan Project mythology, and now the most venal idiots alive are bringing back diseases because they can.
The sun still rises. And it will continue to do so. Long after the fascists are gone.
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The sun still rises. And it will continue to do so. Long after the fascists are gone.
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Submission week for the Cryptographic Application Workshop (CAW), an affiliated event at Eurocrypt'26 in Rome! Please submit your talk proposals on constructive real-world crypto using the following instructions before Jan 23, 2026 AoE. All infos on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
January 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Submission week for the Cryptographic Application Workshop (CAW), an affiliated event at Eurocrypt'26 in Rome! Please submit your talk proposals on constructive real-world crypto using the following instructions before Jan 23, 2026 AoE. All infos on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
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I insisted that Nadhim Zahawi delete this tweet before joining us, because one of our rules is that everyone in Reform UK has to pretend that I’m not racist.
January 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I insisted that Nadhim Zahawi delete this tweet before joining us, because one of our rules is that everyone in Reform UK has to pretend that I’m not racist.
Achievement unlocked: I finished the Private Eye Christmas cryptic crossword (#820). It’s a right corker, thanks to Cyclops for providing the much appreciated Yuletide mental gymnastics! @privateeyenews.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Achievement unlocked: I finished the Private Eye Christmas cryptic crossword (#820). It’s a right corker, thanks to Cyclops for providing the much appreciated Yuletide mental gymnastics! @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Some great talks to come at #RWC026 including 5 (!) from the Applied Cryptography research group @csateth.bsky.social on topics including Signal’s security, designing SecureDrop Next Generation, fuzzing of crypto libraries…. and one mystery topic still under embargo.
The accepted talks for Real World Crypto 2026 are now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte...
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
RWC 2026 accepted papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Some great talks to come at #RWC026 including 5 (!) from the Applied Cryptography research group @csateth.bsky.social on topics including Signal’s security, designing SecureDrop Next Generation, fuzzing of crypto libraries…. and one mystery topic still under embargo.
Winter sun on Zuriberg.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Winter sun on Zuriberg.
Catching up on recent posts on the CFRG mailing list.
September 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Catching up on recent posts on the CFRG mailing list.
Do I let this guy stay in the garage or gently remove him to a nice damp bit of garden?
July 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Do I let this guy stay in the garage or gently remove him to a nice damp bit of garden?
Would it be too salty to say how reassuring it is to find so many new experts in quantum computing and post quantum cryptography suddenly popping up over on LinkedIn?
July 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Would it be too salty to say how reassuring it is to find so many new experts in quantum computing and post quantum cryptography suddenly popping up over on LinkedIn?
New reading material dropped.
July 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New reading material dropped.
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The Call for Contributed Talks is now open for RWC 2026! And the deadline for submissions is now Oct. 10, 2025.
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
RWC 2026 call for papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Call for Contributed Talks is now open for RWC 2026! And the deadline for submissions is now Oct. 10, 2025.
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...
Reading this gave me a lift - we are rapidly progressing to a carbon-free future, at least outside the US (who are being held back by extremist ideology and power of big oil lobbyists).
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reading this gave me a lift - we are rapidly progressing to a carbon-free future, at least outside the US (who are being held back by extremist ideology and power of big oil lobbyists).
Hello again from mighty Svalbard, 78 degrees North, 125 days of constant sunlight.
July 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hello again from mighty Svalbard, 78 degrees North, 125 days of constant sunlight.
Some impressions of Longyearbyen from the last few days.
July 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some impressions of Longyearbyen from the last few days.
It’s nearly midnight in Svalbard, and I’m about to try to give an entertaining yet challenging talk at #ArcticCrypt -wish me luck!
July 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It’s nearly midnight in Svalbard, and I’m about to try to give an entertaining yet challenging talk at #ArcticCrypt -wish me luck!
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bill this is the kind of mansplaining audacity that’s preserved in museums for future generations to learn from as a cautionary tale
this is mansplaining in the form of a long-term nuclear waste warning message
this is mansplaining in the form of a long-term nuclear waste warning message
June 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bill this is the kind of mansplaining audacity that’s preserved in museums for future generations to learn from as a cautionary tale
this is mansplaining in the form of a long-term nuclear waste warning message
this is mansplaining in the form of a long-term nuclear waste warning message