In September, our researchers attended the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (#CHES2025) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While there, they reunited with their former colleagues from TU Graz. 😊

"TurboSHAKE" with 12 rounds was proposed and discussed for use in PQ algorithms, for the costly expansion of public seeds into pseudorandom vectors/matrices, where the security requirements are much weaker anyway. That might have been a good opportunity, but alas...

More than 500 researchers from 34 countries published an open letter against the EU's proposed Chat Control regulation

csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

Der ausländische Bauernkalender YouTube video by Die Stoakogler - Topic

Is früher in am Bauerndorf a Kind geboren worn,
hot koana so a Wetta gmocht wie heit mit unsere Kloan.
Hot koana am Kalender gschaut, wos gemma eam fürn an Nom,
weils früher in am Bauerndorf wie'd Eltern ghoassn hom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08O...

Yesterday was "World Quantum Day", that must mean today is Post-"Qantum Day". Happy PQC-Day!

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