1/ Initial reactions after some hours with this groundbreaking result proving the NP-hardness of poly-approx CVP/NCP: It is most likely correct, but more importantly, it is original, elegant, and beautiful! (Also: it is easy to improve, quantitatively.) openai.com/index/ten-ad...

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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The Call for Contributed Talks for the 2027 edition of the Real World Crypto Symposium 2027 is now open. If you’ve built, deployed, broken, measured, migrated, or learned something the community should hear about, submit it. rwc.iacr.org/2027/contrib...

RWC 2027 call for papers

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Very excited about the International Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PrivCrypt) that I am co-organizing with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt in Rome this Sunday: privcryptworkshop.github.io/program.html

Happy days! A perfect excuse to share my favourite quantum cryptography origin story, as recounted in Brassard’s paper: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph...

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Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! They are recognized for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing. awards.acm.org/turing @umontreal

CHES 2026 is calling for Test of Time Award nominations! A great opportunity to spotlight high impact papers💡 ➡️ ches.iacr.org/2026/callfor... Celebrating lasting impact means honoring foundational ideas! #CHES2026 #HardwareSecurity #CHES

CHES 2026 contact information

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

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I am co-organising (with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik) a workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Rome on May 10 as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt. Submit your best PEC-work (3-page extended abstract) for presentation by February 25th: privcryptworkshop.github.io

From mid-November on, before you send an email ask yourself if this is really a 2025 problem

🚨 The CHES 2025 Rump Session — Call for Contributions is out! Got something short, fun, bold, or last-minute to share with the community? Submit now 👉 ches.iacr.org/2025/rumpses... #IACR #CHES #hardwaresecurity #CHES2025

CHES 2025 rump session

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

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CECC 2025 will accept posters, submission deadline is the 23rd May (more details can be found at cecc2025.inf.elte.hu). Also we have great invited speakers (Carla Rafols, Thomas Decru, Stefan Dziembowski), so hope to see you in Budapest!

🚨 TCHES 2025 Issue 4 Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025! Submit your research on cryptographic hardware & software to CHES- happening this September in Kuala Lumpur! More info: ches.iacr.org/2025/callfor... #CHES2025 #Cryptography #HardwareSecurity #SideChannel #IACR #EmbeddedSystems #CallForPapers

Our friends at ELTE are organizing the Central European Crypology conference (CECC 2025) in Budapest and they're looking forward to your submissions (you only need to submit an extended abstract). Every info on the webpage: cecc2025.inf.elte.hu/en/

There is a deadline of April 8 for submitting to volume 2, issue 2 of Communications in Cryptology (see https://cic.iacr.org). The papers for volume 2, issue 1 are going through copy editing.

IACR Communications in Cryptology

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📢 Final call for CHES Test of Time Award 2025 paper nominations! 🏆 Help us recognize impactful research from past editions of CHES. Submit your nominations by April 1st! Details: ches.iacr.org/2025/callfor... #CHES2025 #CHES #TestOfTimeAward #AcademicExcellence #IACR

Congratulations to the legendary Adi Shamir on his Levchin Prize win! Dr. Shamir donated the $10K prize money to students sponsorships.

Our group in Tartu (me and @jannosiim.bsky.social and some PhD students) have additional openings for a postdoc and a PhD student; see crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/OpenPos... (iacr.org/jobs link will hopefully be up in a few days). Apply by email to me

Update on crypto.iacr.org/2025/

We have extended the submission deadline for the International Workshop on Foundations and Applications of Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PrivCrypt) by two weeks to April 4, 2025, AoE. Please help spread the word and consider submitting your work to join us in Munich in Summer 😎

Daniel Slamanig@drl3c7er.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Join our Applied Crypto group at FAU in Nürnberg as a PhD student or spread the word: we're hiring. Our work covers many topics in real-world crypto, especially provable security and privacy of modern messaging protocols 🔐✉️ www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/7-phd-p...

7 PhD positions (m/f/d) (salary level 13 TV-L) in Computer Science (full time) and 3 PhD position (m/f/d) (salary level 13 TV-L) in Law (part time, 75%)

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If you are looking for a PhD or PostDoc position in Cryptographic Engineering, please check the openings of Michael Hutter at our Research Institute CODE here in beautiful Munich. Please consider and help spread the word: iacr.org/jobs/item/3908

Ludovic Perret (EPITA & SORBONNE) and I are organizing a workshop on "Quantum-Safe Hybrid Cryptography (QSHC)" under the umbrella of ACNS 2025. Please consider submitting a contributed talk (2-page abstract) and helping us spread the word. Link: sites.google.com/view/qshc25/...

QSHC 2025

About the Workshop This workshop aims to explore the synergies between (symmetric/asymmetric) quantum-safe and quantum cryptography. A leading example is the design of Hybrid Authenticated Key Exchang...

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The list of accepted talk at @rwc.iacr.org is now available: rwc.iacr.org/2025/accepte... Early registration ends 26 February. CC: programme co-chair @nicksullivan.org

RWC 2025 accepted papers

Real World Crypto Symposium

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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

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!

Submission deadline approaching for the IACR Communications in Cryptology (CiC). Don’t miss your chance to contribute to this diamond open access journal. Deadline: January 13, 2025 (AoE) Details and submission guidelines: cic.iacr.org/callforpapers #cryptography #iacr

Not only is it not Friday, it’s not even Thursday

“No worries, I should have it finished by December!” December:

We got a PhD Position in Lattice-Based Cryptography at King's College London martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/p... cryptographers.kcl.ac.uk

The Asiacrypt 2024 program is finally up! asiacrypt.iacr.org/2024/program...

Asiacrypt 2024 program

Asiacrypt 2024

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