Proud advisor moment: 1st Ph.D student at University of Sydney Zhenliang Lu, just defended his thesis on the dumbo family, and many thanks to both committee members Andrew Miller Fan Zhang and chair Vincent Gramoli. He is also awarded the Career Advancement Award from Engineering Sydney Uni

Technion Israel Foteini Baldimtsi Oblivious RAM: From Theory to Large-Scale Real-World Deployment with Elaine Shi youtube.com/watch?v=NcSiqt…

PKC'24 website is up! After submitting to eurocrypt, just keep the momentum and push it all the way to mid-Oct to submit your favorite recent results to PKC :-) With Vanessa Teague Willy Susilo, Fuchun, we will welcome you at Sydney! pkc.iacr.org/2024/callforpa…

Our wonderful set of PCs, and submission site will be open in any minute too; no rush, just keep polishing :-)

Hope Optus (and more broadly) now realizes decentralized/distributed infrastructure at least provides fault tolerance/resilience, even if you forget about all the buzz words.....

looking forward to pushing all-hands checkpointing further :)

PKC24 notifications were just out, many thanks to our area chairs Giuseppe Persiano 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 Steven Galbraith Kazue Sako and Vasilis Zikas, and all PCs/reviewers for their great work. And of course, the wonderful PC co-chair Vanessa Teague. We gonna have a fascinating program.

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/

The School of Computer Science is advertising four continuing education-focussed positions (2 Sr lecturer, 1 A/Prof and 1 full Prof). Please share the ad.

1st day of PKC24, an exciting program, a wonderful invited talk from Nadia Heninger , a surprise panel with Daniele, Nadia, Gabrielle, Long about how we can better verify, respond and encourage cryptoanalysis work like eprint/2024/555, and a zoo tour~

hardcore tech instead of wishful thinking is more needed than ever ....