As of October 1st, I am on sabbatical leave from my academic position @ucl.ac.uk and I am happy to announce that I have joined the Mysten Labs research team. Excited to be part of an incredibly ambitious & talented crowd & I'm looking forward to diving into new projects with them🚀
🔐✌️ Victory for Privacy and Security in France 🇫🇷
End-to-end encryption will continue to be available in France, as the assembly overwhelmingly voted against an amendment to legislation fighting drug trafficking which required backdoors in encrypted messengers.
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
I’ll be at @zkproof and @RealWorldCrypto in Sofia next week. Ping me if you want to have a chat!
@keithedwards.bsky.social Happy 40th birthday. Keep up the great work you're doing!
The tentative program for Real World Crypto 2025 is live!
rwc.iacr.org/2025/program...
A huge thanks to my co-chair @malb.bsky.social and all the amazing program committee members for helping put this together. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Sofia!
#realworldcrypto
I am convinced 99% of websites should use magic links + passkeys.
It bypasses all (debatable) portability objections to passkeys, it’s at least as secure as email-based recovery, as fast as a password manager, it’s available to all users… and importantly, no passwords!
The submission portal is now available for the open faculty position in the UCL Information Security Research Group (permanent position, all grades). Applications close on 31 January 2024. The link and further details are at: sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/hiring-2024/
For more details on the letter see: nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/...
412 researchers from 33 countries (including myself) as well as numerous NGOs have signed an open letter urging the EU to remove this clause, mandating privacy-enhancing technologies for the European identity infrastructure, and requesting more transparency about the development of such regulations.
The EU is proposing highly concerning cryptography regulations: #eIDAS #Article45 would enable any EU member state to eavesdrop on and tamper with the web traffic of any EU citizen and would also severely limit the security measures that can be taken to protect the European web.
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Here's the link: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Today Alberto Sonnino from Mysten Labs will talk about "Narwhal and Bullshark: DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus" at the UCL InfoSec research seminar. The talk will take place on Zoom and will be live-streamed to YouTube. More details: sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/seminars/ CYL!
Periodic reminder that I'm always looking for students who want to work with me on topics in cryptography, distributed systems etc at UCL. I have funding.
We also have a brand new scholarship program see ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... Deadline is Dec 11. If you want to learn more, reach out to me!
TIL: drand.love serves ~100M / API requests per day which is amazing and very exciting!
Molly White (@molly.wiki) is covering the FTX/SBF trial very well in her newsletter newsletter.mollywhite.net/s/the-ftx-fi...
Guten Tag.