Job Posting: Postdoc in Cryptography Aalto University, Finland We are looking for postdocs interested in working with us (Chris Brzuska and Russell Lai) on topics including but not limited to: Lattice-based cryptography, with special focus on the design, application, and analysis of non-standard lattice assumptions Succinct/zero-knowledge/batch proof and argument systems, functional commitments Advanced (e.g. homomorphic,…

Job Posting: PhD in Cryptography King’s College London We are inviting applications for a PhD studentship in the cryptography lab at King’s College London. Specifically, we are looking for an applicant to work with Martin Albrecht and Benjamin Dowling. The PhD could, for example, cover cryptanalysing existing cryptographic technologies/protocols, such as Telegram or WhatsApp, or…

Job Posting: PhD Research Internship Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium Nokia Bell Labs is looking for PhD student (or PostDoc ) interns for 2025. We have two positions related to ZKP and FHE/MPC. Note: We are strictly looking for technical researchers with programming skills. Closing date for applications: Contact: Emad Heydari Beni ([email protected]) Go to Source

Event Calendar: MOZAIK Winter School 2025 Leuven, Belgium, 31 March – 4 April 2025 Event date: 31 March to 4 April 2025 Go to Source

Event Calendar: RWMPC 2025: Real World MPC (RWMPC 2025) Workshop Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 March 2025 Event date: 25 March 2025 Submission deadline: 28 January 2025 Notification: 14 February 2025 Go to Source

Event Calendar: WEIS 2025: The 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security Tokyo, Japan, 23 June – 25 June 2025 Event date: 23 June to 25 June 2025 Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Notification: 14 March 2025 Go to Source

ePrint Report: Forking the RANDAO: Manipulating Ethereum’s Distributed Randomness Beacon Ábel Nagy, János Tapolcai, István András Seres, Bence Ladóczki Proof-of-stake consensus protocols often rely on distributed randomness beacons (DRBs) to generate randomness for leader selection. This work analyses the manipulability of Ethereum’s DRB implementation, RANDAO, in its current consensus mechanism. Even with its efficiency, RANDAO…

Event Calendar: PBC 2025: Permutation-based Crypto 2025 Madrid, Spain, 4 May 2025 Event date: 4 May 2025 Submission deadline: 28 February 2025 Notification: 15 March 2025 Go to Source

Event Calendar: CAW ’25: Cryptographic Applications Workshop 2025 Madrid, Spain, 4 May – Event date: 4 May to Submission deadline: 7 February 2025 Go to Source

ePrint Report: ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability Alex Evans, Nicolas Mohnblatt, Guillermo Angeris We introduce ZODA, short for ‘zero-overhead data availability,’ which is a protocol for proving that symbols received from an encoding (for tensor codes) were correctly constructed. ZODA has optimal overhead for both the encoder and the samplers. Concretely, the ZODA scheme incurs essentially…