One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system
#IACR #helios #cryptography #encryption #voting #election
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International Cryptology Association Loses Crypto Keys, Voids Leadership Election
#Cybersecurity #Encryption #Security #IACR #Cryptography #ElectionSecurity #HumanError #Voting #Governance #KeyManagement #HeliosVoting #Privacy
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A firm considered one of the leading global voices in encryption has cancelled the announcement of its leadership election results after an official lost the encrypted key needed to unlock them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#cryptology #encryption #IACR
#Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A trustee for The International Association for Cryptologic Research loses one of the three keys needed for their electronic voting system.
#CyberSecurity #IACR #PointOfFailure #HumanError
"Bizarre twist: Top security org cancels election results after official loses encryption key Needed to unlock votes in secure voting system #IACR #votingsecurity"
A screenshot from IACR's announcement: "This announcement is in connection with the recent IACR 2025 election conducted using the Helios electronic voting system. Regrettably, we have encountered a fatal technical problem that prevents us from concluding the election and accessing the final tally. For this election and in accordance with the bylaws of the IACR, the three members of the IACR 2025 Election Committee acted as independent trustees, each holding a portion of the cryptographic key material required to jointly decrypt the results. This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own: all trustees must provide their decryption shares. Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share. As a result, Helios is unable to complete the decryption process, and it is technically impossible for us to obtain or verify the final outcome of this election."
WTF IACR?
Conspiracy intensifies...
#iacr #helios #crypto #cryptography #politics #conspiracy
That said, I am glad that IACR is addressing this "human mistake" by making a "system design change" to a 2-of-3 quorum for the re-run.
www.iacr.org/news/item/27...
#IACR #Cryptography #KeyManagement #InfoSec #OPSEC #Elections
Cryptography group cancels election results after official loses secret key https://arstechni.ca #internationalassociateforcryptologicalresearch #electionsystems #encryptionkeys #Security #Biz&IT #iacr
“Key Management” is the cryptographic community’s version of “…it’s always DNS”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr
Asisto esta semana en Izmir (Turquía 🇹🇷) al congreso de la International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR), donde presento el póster “Is cancer increasing in young adults in Spain? Incidence trends for the period 1993–2018.” #IACR
🚨 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
Crypto has been held at the same university (UCSB, California) since 1981. Thanks to UCSB for hosting, but staying in one place has limited accessibility. Visa requirements have long kept many researchers from attending. Time for real geographical diversity at Crypto. #IACR
I will be at #IACR #Crypto2025 this year. I always enjoy meeting new people and catching up with old friends. If you're going, then please feel free to drop me a line.
Presented some ideas on how critical realists can advance the ongoing ecocide debate. Thanks for wonderful and cheering feedback! #IACR #CriticalRealism #ecocide
Accepted papers from TCHES Issue 3 are now online! Congratulations 👏: ches.iacr.org/2025/accepte...
#IACR #CHES #hardwaresecurity #CHES2025
🚨 The Call for Posters for CHES 2025 is now online!
Showcase your latest research, ideas, and work-in-progress to the cryptographic hardware security community.
🔗 ches.iacr.org/2025/callfor...
📅 Submission deadline: 7 July 2025
#CFP #Posters #CHES2025 #CallForPosters #CHES #IACR
Eight bell ringers from Taney ready to compete at the Irish Association of Change Ringing Murphy Cup pose smiling in matching purple uniforms outside the large white door of St. Peter’s Church, Drogheda.
A group of Taney bellringers in purple uniforms enter the side door of St. Peter’s Church, gathering for their ring inside the stone Georgian building.
A vintage chalkboard mounted on pine-panelled walls displays complex numerical sequences used for bell ringing methods, showing active learning and tradition in the ringing room.
A framed black-and-white photo from 1951 shows members of St. Peter’s bellringers’ guild standing beside church bells removed for renovation, dressed in formal attire with names listed below.
A brilliantly run day on Saturday at the Murphy Cup (the all Ireland bell ringing finals) - we didn't get a podium finish, with a strong pair of really excellent teams from Northern Ireland setting an impossibly high standard... But great fun, as always. 🔔 #IACR #MurphyCup
"Towards Optimally Secure Deterministic Authenticated Encryption Schemes" was presented today at #IACR #Eurocrypt 2025 in Madrid.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
This morning our researcher Robin Geelen presented "Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Cyclotomic Prime Moduli" at #IACR #Eurocrypt 2025 in Madrid.
🔎Interested in this topic? Robin wrote a blog post to explain everything: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/e...
#fhe #cryptography
Just about ready to set off to Madrid for #eurocrypt 2025, where I’ll have the great honour of giving the 2025 IACR Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday afternoon. #iacr #cryptography
🚨 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
📢 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
Incroyable! "ECHOES of the ABYSS", une série complète générée par IA (VEO2) en seulement 15 jours. Un thriller nordique créé par une petite équipe qui aurait nécessité des dizaines de techniciens traditionnellement. L'avenir de la création vidéo se dessine sous nos yeux! #IAcr patb.ca/r/bo1
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
Congrats to the winners of the 2024 #IACR Test-of-Time Award for #Asiacrypt: "Fiat-Shamir with aborts: Applications to lattice and factoring-based signatures", by V. Lyubashevsky and "Efficient public key encryption based on ideal lattices", by D. Stehlé, R. Steinfeld, K. Tanaka and K. Xagawa !
#IACR I am currently reading: PRISMA-S: An Extension to the PRISMA Statement for
Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews #Preregistered
A 16 items checklist, condensed from 405 items, derived from how 61 systematic reviews reported their search.
files.osf.io/v1/resources...
"Hardware Acceleration of the Prime-Factor and Rader NTT for BGV Fully Homomorphic Encryption" (David Du Pont, Jonas Bertels, Furkan Turan, Michiel Van Beirendonck, Ingrid Verbauwhede) eprint.iacr.org/2024/217 #ePrint #iacr
