Nigel Smart
Cryptographer
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- "The Internet has mostly divided itself into people who already know these allegations are true, because they don’t trust Meta and of course Meta can read your messages — and a second set of people who also don’t trust Meta but mostly think this is unsupported nonsense" Well said Matt.
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- Looking forward to this... www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
- It has been an exciting past week for Zama. Now the results are in. The first sealed bid auction conducted using Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and it all went smoothly. Fully Homomorphic Encryption is now here and ready to use. www.linkedin.com/pulse/zama-p...
- Reminder that the next submission deadline for IACR's Communications in Cryptology is next Monday. Remember this is a fully reviewed Diamond Open Access (free for authors, free for readers) journal , published by the premier cryptographic society on earth. cic.iacr.org
- Leuven named among best places to visit in Europe in 2026 www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1931...
- The ticker is $ZAMA www.zama.org/post/the-tic...
- Looking forward to the NIST workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes next week. It has been a long time since the project was first conceived by NIST, but now excited it is really all systems go. csrc.nist.gov/events/2026/... My talk will be on Tuesday
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- Reposted by Nigel SmartIt’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.
- Nice attack from COSIC on headphones... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j45... Details here... whisperpair.eu
- Belgium has a cyber security unicorn.... www.belganewsagency.eu/ghent-cyber-...
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- Craig Gentry gave a talk at last years FHE.org, so it is only appropriate that Shai is giving a talk at this years FHE.org. Between them Gentry and Halevi wrote the early playbook on Homomorphic Encryption
- Reposted by Nigel SmartThere are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs
- More MPs are coming off X and I assume that means they will be posting more on here @politicshome.bsky.social has a handy list of all the MPs on Bluesky Please point out anyone who is missing!
- Best way to start RWC week in Taipei is to go to FHE.org....
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- IACR just published Volume 2, Issue 4 of the IACR Communications in Cryptology: see cic.iacr.org/i/2/4. This issue consists of 39 papers.
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- Fully robust MPC protocol over Galois Rings, executing a TFHE DKG protocol amongst 13 parties, taking 55 hours, with 10.5 Terabytes of data sent per party.... www.zama.org/post/decentr...
- Your quarterly reminder to submit a paper to Communications in Cryptology... cic.iacr.org It is Diamond Open Access (readers and authors do not pay) and it contains all your new cool cryptographic research. Next deadline for submission is Feb 2nd.
- @rwc.iacr.org accepted talks are out.... rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte... I am not sure how they are going to fit them all into three days
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- Internships in MPC available, for both recent PhD graduates and current PhD students... mpcinthewild.github.io This is a project funded by the Zama Cryptanalysis Grant program
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- Was an honour to be the first guest on the MPC Alliance pod cast... www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7r8...
- Cryptography shows that AI filters will never work.... www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe... Nice application of crypto to AI, and shows that AI has inherent limitations.
- Reposted by Nigel SmartThe fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
- Reposted by Nigel SmartRobin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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- Reposted by Nigel SmartGreat culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
- With the Zama Public Auction perhaps people in the cryptographic community can now stop talking about Sugar Beet as the example when talking about privacy preserving auctions.... auction.zama.org
- Reposted by Nigel Smart- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- It has been a busy two months in COSIC.... - Ingrid Verbauwhede receives FWO Excellence Prize at Bozar - Rijndael Recognized as IEEE Milestone - Battering Ram attack - Best Theory and Early Career Award at Asiacrypt 2025 www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/sites/...
- IACR woes even made the BBC news. But they did not work out that the IACR is not a company [firm in old English], but a scientific association. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Nigel SmartNEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:
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- Reposted by Nigel SmartA radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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- Don't forget to apply for some of the limited space at the Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day at Bocconi University in Milan on December 12th .... coedcon.github.io/index.html There are speakers from Nokia, Bosch, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs, Lattica AI, ST Microelectronics (and me)
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- Trusted Execution Environments are the gift that just keep on giving [for attackers].... TDX Attack: tee.fail SGX Attack: arstechnica.com/security/202... As the second article says "The chipmakers say physical attacks aren’t in the threat model. Many users didn’t get the memo".
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- Reposted by Nigel Smart45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
- Looks like cryptographers can still safely fall asleep again.... eprint.iacr.org/2025/1945 Lattice crypto is still a go for the post-quantum transition.
- Just over a week left to submit a 2-4 page talk proposal for the @fheorg.bsky.social conference in Taipei next year... fhe.org/conferences/...
- Reposted by Nigel Smart"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"
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- If you are looking for a present for that cryptographer in your life for Xmas, then here you go.... obsolescence.dev/enigma-touch...
- The next COED Industry Day is going to be held in Milan.... coedcon.github.io/index.html Going to be a super cool mix of speakers, from Bosch, Nokia Bell Labs, Cybernetica, Roseman Labs and Zama
- Volume 2 Issue 3 of Communications in Cryptology is now available.... cic.iacr.org/i/2/3
- Just a few days left....
- Under one week left to submit your papers to the next issue of the IACR's Communications in Cryptology... cic.iacr.org You know it makes sense - Fast turnaround - Diamond Open Access - No travel to conferences in some god-forsaken location
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- FHE.org 2026 Taipei Registrations are open! Registrations are open for the 5th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 8, 2026. Get your tickets now! luma.com/fhe-org-conf...
- Under one week left to submit your papers to the next issue of the IACR's Communications in Cryptology... cic.iacr.org You know it makes sense - Fast turnaround - Diamond Open Access - No travel to conferences in some god-forsaken location
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- Get your talk proposals in for FHE.org in Taipei next year...
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