Cryptography postdoc at @IRIF_Paris . Ex-@AarhusCrypto. Occasional basketball tweet🏀
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Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
This semester, I'm teaching "Blockchain Foundations", a course I designed & taught at @Stanford in 2022 & 2023, locally at @ntua in Athens. First lecture on Feb 16th, 12:45. Info & registration: marabu.dev/
Our paper "Structured-Seed Pseudorandom Generators and their Applications" was accepted at RANDOM 2025 🎉
eprint.iacr.org/2024/1027
We give a generic template: noisy‑NC0 PRGs + local compression give structured seed local PRGs and we revisit the canonical applications of local PRGs and demonstrate that SSL-PRGs suffice for:
Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
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Today Friday (AoE) is the abstract submission deadline for Latincrypt 2025! Page limit is 30p + refs. Edits are allowed until Sunday (AoE).
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Latincrypt 2025 takes place in Medellin, Colombia, Oct 1-3. Well connected airports, amazing talks and great coffee!
How are your Latincrypt submissions going?
Remember you have until this Friday AoE for the abstract submission, and Sunday AoE for making finishing touches to the paper.
We have a great PC of +80 internationally renowned researchers ready to read you!
ciencias.medellin.unal.edu.c…
Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
We're less than a month away from Latincrypt 2025 deadline! (abstract 5th May, paper 9th May).
Consider submitting your great works! And don't miss this opportunity to visit Medellín, one of the most vibrant cities in Colombia.
Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
Congrats to Sophia Yakoubov from @AarhusCrypto on her promotion to Associate Professor! Her research in cryptography, from secure multi-party computation to rational cryptography, is shaping the future of privacy and security. A well-deserved recognition of her contributions!
Oh hey, I made it. Thank you to all the beautiful people that were part of this journey ♥️
Congrats to Nikolas Melissaris of #aarhuskrypto that today defended his PhD "Better, Faster, Stronger - Improving Security, Efficiency and Primitives for MPC"!
Congrats Simon! 🎈
Congrats to Simon Holmgaard Kamp of #aarhuskrypto who last week defended his PhD "Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Computing" @csaudk
Congrats to friends and their coauthors for moving on to round 2 of the post-quantum digital signatures competition 🥳
NIST has chosen the post-quantum digital signatures that progressed to the 2nd round of the competition, and FAEST has made it :)
Congrats to everyone of us, and also to all the other teams that made it.
csrc.nist.gov/Projects/pqc-d…
Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
Congrats to Lennart Braun of #aarhuskrypto who last week defended his PhD "Cryptography After Prime Time -- Protocols for Z2k and Groups of Unknown Order" @csaudk
1. Carsten
2. PhD
3. Denmark 🇩🇰
Can’t get much better than this.
I have re-opened the call for a PhD position at DTU Compute in Post-Quantum security. The position is for 3 years, with me as main supervisor. The project will focus on combining threshold cryptography such as MPC with Post-Quantum approaches.
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Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
Adi Shamir is awarded the Wolf Prize for being a truly exceptional scientist and has been the leading force in transforming cryptography into a scientific discipline that is heavily based on Mathematics. His foundational discoveries combine mathematical ingenuity with a range of analytical tools. They had a huge impact on several mathematical areas, advancing both mathematics and society in an unparalleled manner.
@WeizmannScience
Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens."
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Nikolas Melissaris retweeted
Tragic news. Luca Trevisan passed away today. The talk he prepared in his final weeks for the TCS4all workshop will be given virtually in his honor on Monday. I hope many of the TCS community can attend.
windowsontheory.org/2024/06/…
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We're looking for new faculty in Cybersecurity at @DTU_Compute. Feel free to share with your qualified friends :)
It’s raining accolades 💪
Congrats to @AarhusCrypto for winning big at #EUROCRYPT2024 🏆 They took home the Sustainability Award for a 1200km train ride 🚆 @schollster & @dfaranha earned Distinguished PC Member Awards 🏅 and Lennart, Lance & Adam placed 2nd in the CTF 🎉
