🎙️This week @annarrose + Nico | ge⬡metry research chat with Chelsea Komlo, from Zcash Foundation 🛡️ & University of Waterloo. They covered her early work on open source distributed systems, her initial interests in the cryptography research space, Threshold Signature Schemes and related concepts and then…

Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode dlvr.it/T511mm

I wish conferences asked papers to submit feedback received from prior submission attempts and a discussion of how the authors improved the paper since then… so much context is lost between submission attempts across different venues

Thanks for the amazing time Real World Crypto , fantastic talks and conversations as always! See you next year in Europe :)

Changing my job title to “fancy cryptographer” thanks #RealWorldCrypto

Hi Toronto! Looking forward to seeing everyone at #RealWorldCrypto 🇨🇦

Alright, ended up writing an explanation of the permutation of plonk because it keeps confusing people. Please let me know if you have any comment or question or things that I could add!

cryptologie.net/article/610/pl…

A thing I worry about in the (academic) privacy field is that our work isn’t really improving privacy globally. If anything it would be more accurate to say we’re finding ways to encourage the collection and synthesis of more data, by applying a thin veneer of local “privacy.”

I'm excited to announce the first Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop, which will be held virtually and in Boston on May 2-3. We're looking for submissions across many different formats! Please help spread the word :) recapworkshop.online

The sprint to submit to CRYPTO, then the sprint to review for CRYPTO 😴

The Zcash Foundation is excited to announce the 1st stable release of 'frost-core', a reference implementation of Two-Round Threshold Schnorr Signatures with FROST, written in Rust.

zfnd.org/frost-referenc…

Protecting your keys with better fail-safes should not cost you your financial privacy
tftc.io/issue-1379-usi…

We're naming names 🔥 because the harm is not hypothetical.

Today we share 'Buying Spying', our new report diving into the commercial surveillance/spyware industry. We dive into the players, the campaigns, the spyware, & the harm it perpetuates.

blog.google/threat-analysi…

NEW: NSA is buying vast amounts of commercially available web browsing data on Americans without a warrant, the agency’s outgoing director has confirmed.

And NSA argues it's entirely legal — for now — until a U.S. court says otherwise.

techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/nat…

‘Claims about 'absolute' or 'unconditional' security allegedly offered by QKD [Quantum Key Distribution] can never apply to actual implementations.’
from a joint position paper by cybersecurity agencies in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Dow…

Chelsea Komlo Our article on FROST has some use cases for FROST, think it might help answer in someway. 🔗sqrr.xyz/reports/FrostR…