We are looking for an ethnography postdoc (2 years) to work with us on the EPSRC-funded Social Cryptography project ( https://t.co/TpBzcdXllB). Closing date is 15 February 2024. Based at Royal Holloway University of London. More information here:

Registration of interest for CrossFryre 2024 is open!! https://t.co/rd7nUgL2vW Official registration goes through Eurocrypt website, but if you are interested in attending, giving a 15min Talk or a 5min Lightening talk, please fill the form!

@RikkeBjerg wrote an ethnography focused announcement blog post: https://t.co/BeV8UkU6K4 and @martinralbrecht wrote a cryptography focused one:

Ok, shaking my Twitterverse network. I'm organising the Performance track for QCon London next year, and I want to make sure I don't bias the track construction too much. If you do performance work, please reply to this tweet or DM me :-) - would love to hear about you!

Not just me, but 70+ of us¹: https://t.co/DPHkBowkoQ ¹ established researchers and scientists working in the fields of information security and cryptography

Call for papers for the new IACR journal is out.. https://t.co/cm33XTleE4 Please support this journal. It is the outcome of a many year community led effort to improve the publication process in cryptography.

The Online Safety Bill will have its third reading in the House of Lords on Wednesday. From what I can gather, it is expected to pass. This is quite worrying for online safety. A thread.

OK, real talk. @telegram makes big proclamations about free speech and privacy, but their promises are mostly marketing. The app collects a huge amount of data. And like all Big Tech, when actually pressed by governments, they ultimately comply. https://t.co/rsh9stGRZs

📎 Congratulations to our own Erin Hales, Sean Murphy, Tabitha Ogilvie, and Rachel Player, and coauthors Anamaria Costache and Benjamin R. Curtis, whose paper "On the Precision Loss in Approximate Homomorphic Encryption" is accepted to SAC 2023 ➡️

As an aside: it has been a longstanding UK government policy to try to make the UK friendly to large tech companies. There's also been large investment in security training (e.g for yours truly). These policies push people away. It makes me question my own place in the UK.

I'm not saying traditional policing is perfect, but given that laws are often contextual, removing people from the equation seems very wrong to me.

I don't often tweet, but circumstances compel. I'm reminded of a point @tekwendell made on a podcast 10+ years ago: there's nothing that's stopping the government from doing, you know, traditional police work. They do not need the power to read messages to stop crime.

68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety." Read our letter here: https://t.co/DPHkBowkoQ

Joint statement from more than 300 scientists from 32 countries warning against the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material https://t.co/Z2yi3gMgrK… The technologies it puts forward are inadequate to solve the problem and bring huge societal risks 🧵

I guess our advertisements worked too well. We're in dire need of additional evaluators, due to a record high number of registrations. If you or someone in your group is eager to join the team, please fill out the self-nomination form before the weekend:

Mucked up? So the Holocaust was a sort of whoops-a-daisy political moment? Oh.

To echo this -- use a profiler! I recently achieved a 10x speedup by changing an environment variable (!!) -- I _never_ would have found the source without using a (stack sampling) profiler. They're worth their weight in gold.

Rant incoming! Please don't cite "Foo et al.", especially please don't use "Albrecht et al." Commonly in our field authors are listed in alphabetical order and thus the person centrally responsible for pushing a project across the finish line may be swallowed in "et al."

This was good fun! Thanks to all who attended, spoke, and to my co-organisers @yayworthy and @erin__hales.

ICMS has been busy and buzzing this week with attendees from the Foundations and Applications of Lattice-based Cryptography workshop, both in-person... #cryptography #maths