Peter Schwabe

My first interview with the Max Planck Society on combating #disinformation in social media and fostering #facts and #fair dialogues online! @maxplanckpress

Excited to be part of the team receiving the ACM SIGSAC Distinguished Paper Award 🏆. Congrats @MarcoGuarnier1, @SCauligi, @YuvalYarom, @cryptojedi, and w/o X handles: David Wu, David Romero, Chitchanok Cheungsatiansup, and Gilles Barthe!

The program for PLAS is online: plas24.github.io! Are you into formal methods/PL for security? Then join our workshop, colocated with CCS, on Oct. 14th in Salt Lake City! We have 2 keynotes by Natasha Fernandes and Binoy Ravindran and 8 promising presentations!

Last week we hosted the end-of-ESCADA workshop at Radboud University celebrating advances in permutation-based cryptography. It was a great success with talks on new results, an interesting panel on standardization and plenty of time for discussions, see eoe.cs.ru.nl

Houston, we are below the quantum error correction threshold! 🚀 In “Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold” (arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687), we implement a 101-qubit surface code. Each time we increase the distance by two, the logical error rate is cut in half!

I am hiring PhD students for my group at RUB. If you have strong implementation skills and are eager to work on problems in automated software testing and program repair, I would be happy to chat at @issta_conf in Vienna or simply email me. RT appreciated! yannicnoller.github.io/positions/

PSA for CRYPTO 2024 attendees: How to walk between SBA airport and UCSB Santa Rosa Hall. (Google Maps does not believe this is possible.) #crypto2024 alltrails.com/explore/record…

Quantum computers could imperil the security of confidential electronic information, such as emails. To counter this threat, NIST has finalized its set of three encryption algorithms designed to withstand a future quantum computer’s cyberattacks: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

CHES 2024 early registration deadline is Aug 15th, register now! ches.iacr.org/2024/registrat…

📢 *Hiring two research assistants (HiWi)* I'm looking for two research assistants (HiWis, must be MSc/BSc students enrolled at a German university) to support us in the international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral @HorizonFINDHR project. Details: asiabiega.github.io/hiring/FINDHR-…

#award The 2024 IACR Test-of-Time Awards for Crypto go to: 1)"Dual-System Encryption", by Brent Waters. 2)"Reconstructing RSA Private Keys from Random Key Bits", by Nadia Heninger and Hovav Shacham. For more details: iacr.org/testoftime/ Congratulations to the winners!

Postdoc on Crypto in Helsinki We are looking for postdocs interested in working with us (Chris Brzuska and Russell W. F. Lai) on topics including but not limited to:

📣 News! I am excited to announce that I will join MPI for Security & Privacy as tenure-track faculty in October! 🥳 I am very much looking forward to working with my future colleagues at MPI-SP and @ruhrunibochum 1/2 mpi-sp.org/66902/news_pub…

.. what I meant to say, is that none of the post-quantum signature schemes are a drop-in replacement for the classical signature schemes we use today. Listen in to learn why.

ToSC has launched the Artifact Evaluation for FSE 2025 (ToSC 2024/2-2025/1). Authors are encouraged to publish the software or datasets that support their results, making it easier for others to reproduce the results and reuse the methods: tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC… #IACR #ToSC

@tregua87 @CASA_EXC @ruhrunibochum Welcome to Bochum!

Happy to announce I'll be joining RUB as a Professor of Cyber Security in September! Looking for PhD students interested in Automated Testing and System Security. If you love fuzzing, PL, or have a passion for infosec, DM me! #RUB #SysSec #InfoSec @CASA_EXC @ruhrunibochum

CHES 2025 website incl first call for papers is up 🫶 ches.iacr.org/2025/

Respectfully, your proposal does break encryption. I am happy to spend as much time as you need reviewing in as much detail as you are comfortable with exactly how it breaks encryption, and why this is so dangerous.

Data News en @destandaard zijn de enige media die het chatcontrol dossier opgevolgd hebben. Heel goed dat er vandaag veel aandacht is in de bredere media, maar als je wacht tot de dag van de stemming in de Europese raad zou het kunnen dat het kalf al verdronken is.

The "chat control" law is a big step for EU A big step, towards an Orwellian totalitarian ideology Essentially forbidding the use of end-to-end encrypted communication will have many consequences It won't do much to fight crime, since criminals will use secure communication channels regardless of what the law requires It will, however, make it much easier for OTHER nation states as well as cyber crime groups, to do mass surveillance against regular and law abiding citizens of your nation, including people in a position of power in politics as well as business It's ludicrously naive to believe that such powerful capabilities for mass surveillance will not be targeted and successfully compromised by your adversaries It is similarly naive to believe that such mass surveillance capabilities will never be abused "internally" by political leaders, business leaders as well as just random IT staff in the various tech companies that are responsible for implementing and managing the access to this capability Protecting against the "bad guys", as well as national security threats, is important. Leveraging offensive technology in order to do so in a targeted manner (and at a cost, automatically contributing to limiting the use to cases that matter) is sometimes necessary Introducing capabilities for mass surveillance at scale is a completely different story, however. Saying that this is not the "intended" use of the capability in question means nothing