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Efficient Verifiable Mixnets from Lattices, Revisited (Jonathan Bootle, Vadim Lyubashevsky, Antonio Merino-Gallardo) ia.cr/2025/658

Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

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Been trying for ages to work out why NAS uploads capped out at around 90 Mbps when it and my desktop are connected to LAN at gigabit. Dug into SMB internals, checked disk write buffering... Only today did I think to check my router ports. Desktop <-1000-> router <-100-> switch <-1000-> NAS *sigh*

Every bit of this piece is worth reading. Steely-eyed missile people, quiet nerd expertise, it's all in here.

I really appreciate all the hard work done by the #realworldcrypto steering committee and to AWS for stepping up to organise in Seattle in 2027, but I’m going to come out and say it: with the US as it now is, I think this choice of location is a mistake.

First session of #realworldcrypto day 2 starts with Anja Lehmann talking about the EU Digital Identity and Anonymous Credentials.

Day 2 of #realworldcrypto is starting! Watch live here:

Aww, but what if the person I'm tagging with a silent facet has *asked* for the spam?

Next #realworldcrypto session starts with Rehan Rishi and Haris Mughees talking about Apple's deployment of Homomorphic Encryption at scale.

The Levchin Prize winner for 2025, Adi Shamir, is giving a talk about their paper on implementing cryptography on analog computers. #realworldcrypto

@eprint.bsky.social is here on Bluesky for all your cryptography firehose needs!

First session at #realworldcrypto is @twal.org talking about the machine-checked analysis of MLS.

LIVE FROM SOFÍA BULGARIA, IT'S REAL WORLD CRYPTO! #realworldcrypto

Kicking off @rwc.iacr.org 2025! I'm excited as always for a great three days of cryptography and engineering discussions 😁 This year the talks are all being live-streamed. Follow along with the first day here:

One of the first things that I tell survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned about the safety of their devices to do is to check the security of their accounts. Techcrunch has a guide on how to do that.