Just read in the LMS Newsletter: Nelson Stephens and Dominic Welsh have both died. Two mathematicians whose work was crucial to my initial career development. Nelson for being my PhD external examiner and mentor at Cardiff, and Dominic for his lovely book on cryptography

Nelson provided the warm up act for Victor Miller at Crypto '85. His paper on the ECM factoring method.... link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… was right before Victor presented his ECC talk... link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Nigel Smart merton.ox.ac.uk/news/professor…

Tenure-track faculty position in Privacy Technologies just open at the KU Leuven COSIC group !!! Application deadline is March 14th. Please consider applying or forwarding to suitable candidates. Details here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

PKC 24 program is up, and registration open! with great papers, awesome invited talks from Aggelos Kiayias and Nadia Heninger, exotic excursion and cruise banquet, and the lovely little logo Willy Susilo, see you in Sydney~ pkc.iacr.org/2024/

Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Auckland. Open to all areas of mathematics. The job requires teaching in China for 3-6 weeks each year. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityO… Application deadline March 15

Happy to announce an exciting conference in Budapest (5th-9th August) called "Mathematics for post-quantum cryptanalysis" (esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events/m…) jointly organized with Wouter Castryck and Fre Vercauteren. 1/2

Avi Wigderson wins the Turing Award 🏆 Others speak of Avi's math and CS genius, but here's a glimpse of his character ❤️ Association for Computing Machinery #ACMTuringAward

While crypto experts are scrutinizing every detail of the new paper, as a precautionary measure we strongly advise everyone to temporarily switch all your digital communications to pigeon post.

A lot of people have noticed the recent result proposing quantum algorithms for solving the LWE problem. As far as I know, the state of knowledge here is: nobody knows if the result will hold, and the (very small number of) qualified folks are still thinking.

🚨🚨🚨PhD position announcement🚨🚨🚨 Come to IBM work with Andrea Basso 🇺🇦 and myself on isogeny-based crypto! iacr.org/jobs/#position…

fully homomorphic encryption Pierre-Luc Daniel J. Bernstein There are alternative proposals for public key encryption which I discuss in that survey (including one I made). But I think it’s fair to say that none of them, isogenies included, has received enough study to have confidence in it.

Is lattice-based cryptography still (potentially) post-quantum now? 🥳 Update to #eprint555 by Yilei Chen

Jim Simons 1938-2024. "I did a lot of math. I made a lot of money, and I gave almost all of it away. That's the story of my life." And what a life. nytimes.com/2024/05/10/bus…

Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand

In case you were wondering what the colors of the Aurora Borealis mean and how high up in the atmosphere they area, here is an informational graphic.