Muhammed Esgin
@mfesgin.bsky.social
Lecturer @MonashUni. Interested in various aspects of crypto(graphy): privacy-enhancing, quantum-safe, lattice-based, zero-knowledge, blockchain, … technologies
Website: https://mfesgin.github.io
Website: https://mfesgin.github.io
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Muhammed Esgin
@mfesgin.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Fully Funded PhD student
iacr.org
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!
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!
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!
Post-Quantum Multi-Message Public Key Encryption from Extended Reproducible PKE (Hongxiao Wang, Ron Steinfeld, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen, Muhammed F. Esgin, Siu-Ming Yiu) ia.cr/2025/1000
June 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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!
We’re getting close to ePrint 2025/555… is everyone ready for a new cryptography meltdown?
#ePrint555
#ePrint555
March 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We’re getting close to ePrint 2025/555… is everyone ready for a new cryptography meltdown?
#ePrint555
#ePrint555
🎥 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
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
February 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
🎥 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
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
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...
This is a talk not to be missed! It’s online, free & open to anyone interested!
events.humanitix.com/distinguishe...
February 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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...
This is a talk not to be missed! It’s online, free & open to anyone interested!
events.humanitix.com/distinguishe...
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
The talk is online and open to anyone interested to join.
See the attached image for more details
January 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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
The talk is online and open to anyone interested to join.
See the attached image for more details
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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...
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 ...
www.eff.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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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
Submission deadline is March 21, 2025 (AoE).
Please help spread the word! 🙏
privcryptworkshop.github.io
PrivCrypt 2025
privcryptworkshop.github.io
January 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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
Submission deadline is March 21, 2025 (AoE).
Please help spread the word! 🙏
privcryptworkshop.github.io
Reposted by Muhammed Esgin
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!
Team application are welcome!
gargantua.polytechnique.fr/siatel-web/a...
Come join us!
Gargantua École polytechnique
Gargantua 8
gargantua.polytechnique.fr
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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!
Team application are welcome!
gargantua.polytechnique.fr/siatel-web/a...
Come join us!
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!
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!
Fully Funded PhD student
iacr.org
January 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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!
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!
Reposted by Muhammed Esgin
💡 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)
(discovered through the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop)
January 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
💡 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)
(discovered through the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop)
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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!
January 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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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.
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.
UK Crypto Day: 20 February 2025
Schedule
uk-crypto-day.github.io
January 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.
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.
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.
December 20, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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.
Apparently one does not need to fly very long to do this..
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Apparently one does not need to fly very long to do this..
A “heuristic” proof? What does that mean???
December 18, 2024 at 8:36 AM
A “heuristic” proof? What does that mean???
#Eurocrypt 2025 (initial) reviews are out!
Enjoy(!) Asiacrypt everyone!
Enjoy(!) Asiacrypt everyone!
December 8, 2024 at 7:57 PM
#Eurocrypt 2025 (initial) reviews are out!
Enjoy(!) Asiacrypt everyone!
Enjoy(!) Asiacrypt everyone!
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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 https://buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024
University Assistant Prae-Doc (all genders)
TU-ID: 192 | 2024 | 48 | 243843
buff.ly
December 2, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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 https://buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024
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!
December 2, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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!