Nigel Smart
smartcryptology.bsky.social
Nigel Smart
@smartcryptology.bsky.social
Cryptographer
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Fully robust MPC protocol over Galois Rings, executing a TFHE DKG protocol amongst 13 parties, taking 55 hours, with 10.5 Terabytes of data sent per party....

www.zama.org/post/decentr...
Decentralized Key Generation for Zama Mainnet Has Successfully Completed
The Decentralized Key Generation (DKG) ceremony for the Zama mainnet has completed successfully.
www.zama.org
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We’re happy to share that AWS (@awscloud.bsky.social) is supporting Real World Crypto 2026. Thank you for your continued support.
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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.
RWC 2026 accepted papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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If the Trump administration really wanted to put the Epstein Files somewhere absolutely no one could ever find them, they'd save them to OneDrive.
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fully robust MPC protocol over Galois Rings, executing a TFHE DKG protocol amongst 13 parties, taking 55 hours, with 10.5 Terabytes of data sent per party....

www.zama.org/post/decentr...
Decentralized Key Generation for Zama Mainnet Has Successfully Completed
The Decentralized Key Generation (DKG) ceremony for the Zama mainnet has completed successfully.
www.zama.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Your quarterly reminder to submit a paper to Communications in Cryptology...

cic.iacr.org

It is Diamond Open Access (readers and authors do not pay) and it contains all your new cool cryptographic research.

Next deadline for submission is Feb 2nd.
IACR Communications in Cryptology
cic.iacr.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
@rwc.iacr.org accepted talks are out....

rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte...

I am not sure how they are going to fit them all into three days
RWC 2026 accepted papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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FHE.org would like to thank Symbolic Software for their continued sponsorship this year (and last!) of the FHE.org 2026 conference.

#FHE #HomomorphicEncryption #FHE2026 #SymbolicSoftware
December 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Internships in MPC available, for both recent PhD graduates and current PhD students...

mpcinthewild.github.io

This is a project funded by the Zama Cryptanalysis Grant program
MPC in the Wild is a research project that aims to study the real-world implementation security of MPC protocols, in particular, the gap between assumptions on the theory side and implementation choices made in practice.
mpcinthewild.github.io
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Volt hat eine Petition gestartet und fordert Europas politische Entscheidungsträger:innen auf, den nächsten Schritt zu gehen: die Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten von Europa – JETZT! 🇪🇺
Lass deine Stimme hören und unterzeichne die Petition (Link in der bio)! 💜
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Was an honour to be the first guest on the MPC Alliance pod cast...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7r8...
MPC Alliance Community Podcast Series: Episode 1 with Nigel Smart
YouTube video by MPC Alliance
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Cryptography shows that AI filters will never work....

www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...

Nice application of crypto to AI, and shows that AI has inherent limitations.
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes | Quanta Magazine
Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Don't forget to RSVP to the full day of FHE talks at the FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026.

Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...

#FHE #homomorphicencryption #fhe2026 #taiwan
FHE.org 2026 Conference - Taipei 🇹🇼 · Luma
FHE.org is a community of researchers and developers interested in advancing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and other secure computation techniques. The…
luma.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I've been going over the responses to the survey from IACR members about publishing and conferences, and I keep coming back to the fact that I think there should be _fewer_ conferences and _more_ journals. This coupling of talks to papers is not healthy.
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A huge thank you to Zcash Foundation (@zfnd.org) for your generous support and commitment to the symposium. #RealWorldCrypto2026
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Appreciation to CryptoExperts (@cryptoexpertssas.bsky.social) for their support of Real World Crypto 2026
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Huge shout-out to VERISIGN for supporting #RealWorldCrypto2026!
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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We’re grateful to Cryptography Consulting LLC for supporting Real World Crypto 2026.
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Real World Crypto 2026 extends thanks to PQ Shield for their support.
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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InterOp Labs joins our supporters for Real World Crypto 2026, thank you!
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We’re pleased to share that Google is joining the list of supporters for Real World Crypto 2026!

Thank you, and looking forward to the symposium!
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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We’re glad to announce that CRYSPEN is joining the supporters of Real World Crypto 2026.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We’re happy to welcome ZAMA as a supporter of Real World Crypto 2026.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM