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So here we are in the nice city of Bern, in the Teutonic Switzerland, for the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry 2019that this year counts more than 750 attendees. The weather is warm enough but the isogenies topic has … Continue reading →

It has just been announced that ECC 2019 will be held in Bochum, Germany, on December 2-4, 2019. More details will eventually be available at https://eccworkshop.org/. — Steven Galbraith

PQCrypto 2019 was held at Ronghui Spa Hotel in Chongqing, China on May 8-10, 2019. Prior to the conference, two other PQC events (the PQC 2019 summer school on May 6th and the 4th Asia PQC Forum on May 7th) … Continue reading →

A few days ago (April 10, 2019) Takakazu Satoh posted on eprint the paper Miller Inversion is Easy for the Reduced Tate Pairing on Trace Zero Supersingular Curves on eprint. I was delighted to hear from Takakazu Satoh, as I … Continue reading →

The American Mathematical Society Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting was held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu during March 22-24, 2019. There was a Special Session on The Mathematics of Cryptography organised by Shahed Sharif … Continue reading →

The Eurocrypt 2019 program features a lot of interesting papers. There are two papers relevant to isogeny crypto: Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, Chloe Martindale and Lorenz Panny. Quantum Circuits for the CSIDH: Optimizing Quantum Evaluation of Isogenies. Luca De … Continue reading →

Wouter Castryck has written a blog post to explain CSIDH: Post-quantum key exchange using isogeny-based group actions. You can watch the Habilitation thesis talk by Luca de Feo on Exploring isogeny graphs. — Steven Galbraith