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I spent the last week in beautiful Banff at the BIRS workshop on An Algebraic Approach to Multilinear Maps for Cryptography. The workshop participant photo is notable, as the age gap between the oldest and youngest person in the photo … Continue reading →

This week Eurocrypt 2018 took place in Tel Aviv, in a hotel next to the marvellous beach. Despite the splendid weather and the tempting conference gift (a bath towel — that’s letting the fox into the hen house), there were … Continue reading →

There was a new ECDLP record that I missed last year. There was a press release on August 23, 2017. Now there is more information. The details are published in the paper Solving 114-bit ECDLP for a Barreto-Naehrig Curve by … Continue reading →

The PQ Crypto conference took place in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida in April 2018. It was extremely well attended (around 350 participants). The three plenary lectures were: Jean-Pierre Tillich, Attacks in code based cryptography: a survey, new results and open … Continue reading →

Ming-Deh Huang has posted on arxiv the paper Trilinear maps for cryptography that proposes a cryptographic tri-linear map based on etale cohomology of abelian surfaces. Achieving multilinear maps is a major open problem, and already going from bilinear maps (pairings) … Continue reading →

1. The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardisation process has begun. The Round 1 Submissions are here. Of particular interest to this blog is the SIKE proposal Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation. The submitters of this proposal are David Jao, Reza Azarderakhsh, Matthew … Continue reading →

ASIACRYPT 2017 took place in Hong Kong and had a large number of talks with elliptic curve and/or number-theoretical content. The three invited talks were: Dustin Moody The ship has sailed: the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography “competition”. This talk gave a … Continue reading →