RWC 2028 will be in Bochum, Germany!
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11.03.2026 08:12
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RWC 2028 will be in Bochum, Germany!
#realworldcrypto
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More information on our website mpcinthewild.github.io#workshop, or come talk to me or @schollster.bsky.social at RWC!
Speaker Nikolas Melissaris talks about What Is Cryptography Hiding from Itself? by Diego F. Aranha and Nikolas Melissaris.
RWCβs official unofficial scribe! Follow along with @durumcrustulum.comβs play-by-play.
Weβre live!
RWC livestream has started at www.youtube.com/live/QQhyxFj...
Watching remotely? You can follow Real World Crypto 2026 on YouTube livestreams (also available via the website):
Day 1 (Mar 9): youtube.com/live/QQhyxFj...
Day 2 (Mar 10): youtube.com/live/00zvMSW...
Day 3 (Mar 11): youtube.com/live/v_AFtbW...
Consider attending our CASA summer school on cryptography and distributed computing from June 22.-25. in Bochum! Registration is open until March 12.
casa.rub.de/en/events/ca...
**Call for Scholarship Applications**
Limited travel support available for students attending #FLoC26 Mentoring Workshop @floc2026.bsky.social.
Deadline: 13 April, 2026
Apply at: forms.gle/89q9AaNfZV3f...
Notification: 20 April, 2026
Help us spread the word!
More details: tinyurl.com/floc26mw
How do you suggest to deal with those papers during peer review?
Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.
If you have an IND-CCA2 scheme but you only want IND-CPA you can use the FAFO transform
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
π’ We have extended the deadline for our EC workshop to *Monday AoE*!
Submit your talk proposal on any topic related to cryptographic proofs and proof techniques π€
Take the opportunity to advertise your ongoing, submitted or published work, or to share other insights related to security proofs
Remember to submit your ProTeCS talk. The deadline is on Thursday!
When Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are Not Enough: Lessons from a Real-World Zero-Knowledge Authorization System, a.k.a Analysis and Vulnerabilities in zkLogin (eprint.iacr.org/2026/227) (1/n)
(It's because back in the days, when your train had to stop all the time, you wanted a special type of train that could accelerate faster than a regular train... and then the name stuck.
TIL there is an actual historic reason for why the Dutch gave their slow local trains the very intuitive name "sprinter"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTjy...
German place-names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed from historical forms)
Call for submissions: #TPMPC2026 (Theory & Practice of MPC)
Submit your latest and coolest results by March 2, 2026.
Aarhus, Denmark, May 18β22, 2026.
Monday: MPC security in practice.
Friday: Symposium celebrating Ivan DamgΓ₯rdβs work.
Links in comments.
I am co-organising (with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik) a workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Rome on May 10 as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt. Submit your best PEC-work (3-page extended abstract) for presentation by February 25th: privcryptworkshop.github.io
Last chance: the early registration deadline is tomorrow, February 6 (AoE).
rwc.iacr.org/2026/registr...
The IACR board sent a survey to members last year, and it took us a while to analyze the results and publish findings. You can see them at iacr.org/surveyresults/
What are you, a programmer?
Planning your trip to Eurocrypt or looking for an excuse to still go? The reviewers did not appreciate your too involved or too elegant proofs?
Consider submitting a talk to ProTeCS (protecs-workshop.gitlab.io), an affiliated event of EC, where we celebrate proofs as independent objects of study!
Now's your chance to participate in growing academic cryptography participation in the Middle East and North Africa region: the Africacrypt call for papers is out!
Submit your paper and come join us this July in beautiful Hammamet, Tunisia: www.africacrypt2026.tn/call-for-pap...
What package did you use for the code?
Bit of a last-minute announcement: school on isogenies 9 - 13 Feb at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/s...
Registration deadline is tomorrow (15 Jan).
We're hosting an Autumn School in London, UK, from 15 to 17 September 2026, to bring together ethnographers and cryptographers to discuss ways in which the two fields can be meaningfully brought into conversation. This is also the premise of our Social Foundations of Cryptography project: to ground cryptography in ethnography. Here, we rely on ethnographic methods, rather than our intuition, to surface security notions that we then formalise and sometimes realise using cryptography. Our intention is to 'flip' the typical relationship between the computer and social sciences, where the latter has traditionally ended up in a service role to the former. Rather, we want to put cryptography at the mercy of ethnography. But how do we do this? How do we as cryptographers interact with and make sense of ethnographic field data? How can we refine, improve or extend this interaction? What obstacles do we face when we make cryptography rely on ethnographic data which is inherently 'messy'? How do we handle that cryptographic notions tend to require some form of generalisation but ethnographic findings can only be particular? How do ethnographers retain the richness of ethnographic field data in conversations with cryptographic work? Indeed, our project has already highlighted some limitations of our approach. It has brought to the fore concrete challenges in 'letting the ethnographic data speak' while still making it speak to cryptography. The Autumn School is an opportunity to explore these questions jointly across ethnography and cryptography, through a series of talks, group discussions and activities. We say a bit more about the programme and registration for the Autumn School here.
Social Foundations of Cryptography: Autumn School
London, UK | 15 to 17 September 2026
social-foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io/school