Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com | Assistant Professor, CS @ Georgia Tech |
| Research Scientist @ Google |
| Prev: PhD in EECS from MIT |
| spdr.cc.gatech.edu |
| mikespecter.com |
William Goodwin @billgoodwin.bsky.social Computer Weekly investigations, technology, surveillance, human rights, journalism.
@mccurley.bsky.social @mccurley.bsky.social
Jan Niklas Siemer @jnsiemer.bsky.social PhD Student at King's College London specialising in lattice-based cryptography.
https://jnsiemer.de/
Daniele Micciancio @daniele.micciancio.net Cryptographer (lattice/post-quantum), Professor at UC San Diego CSE department, Amazon scholar, IACR Fellow. PhD from MIT CSAIL.
Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social Science and tech writer. PhD student in Cryptography @ NYU. 2025 MMF at MIT Technology Review. Signal: @PeterHall.1142
Jonas Janneck @jonasjanneck.bsky.social PhD Student in Cryptography at Ruhr University Bochum
Aisha Down @aishadown.bsky.social Reporter covering technology for the Guardian. You can reach me securely on Signal at aishadown.57
Alan Woodward @profw.bsky.social Computer Scientist with particular interest in cyber security & quantum technology.
Christoph Egger @siccegge.toot.kif.rocks.ap.brid.gy I work on foundations of #Cryptography at @IRIF in #Paris
Also Free Software Person, #Debian Developer
and long-time #CTF player with #FAUST
[bridged from https://toot.kif.rocks/@siccegge on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Juraj Somorovsky @jurajsomorovsky.bsky.social Professor at Paderborn University, co-founder of Hackmanit. Used to break XML, now playing with TLS and crypto. Co-author of DROWN, EFAIL, and TLS-Attacker.
Peter Scholl @schollster.bsky.social
Kris @kris-kwiatkowski.bsky.social Cryptography Dev
Lena Heimberger @meyira.bsky.social Cryptography and Privacy @tugraz
heimberger.xyz
Dan Jones @danwilshirejones.bsky.social
Sonia Belaïd @sbelaid.bsky.social Cryptographer
Samuel Light @samuel-light.bsky.social Ethnography | Information Security | Interpretivism
Ethnographer exploring contemporary social movements, protest and activism. PhD candidate on the Social Foundations of Cryptography project @royalholloway.bsky.social and
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
@jpdega.bsky.social @jpdega.bsky.social
Christiane Peters @cbcrypto.bsky.social Website https://cbcrypto.org
Fediverse https://ioc.exchange/@cbcrypto
'Funmi Olonisakin @funmiolonisakin.bsky.social Vice President/Principal (International) @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | Professor of Peace, Security, Leadership and Internationalisation of Education | Founding Director of African Leadership Centre @ King's | PhD in War Studies @ King's
Siamak Shahandashti @siasha.bsky.social Academic @york.ac.uk interested in security & privacy
www.cs.york.ac.uk/~siamak
@woutercastryck.bsky.social @woutercastryck.bsky.social
Al Ghaff @alghaff.bsky.social Board Director @Bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social. ex-Chief Operating Officer @OpenRightsGroup.org. All views my own.
https://www.alghaff.org
Marcus Brinkmann @lambdafu.bsky.social I'm a tempura shrimp and you can't catch me! | 🐢 Terrapin Attack | 🦙 ALPACA Attack | 🦝 Raccoon Attack | 😈 DEMONS Attack | @lambdafu@mastodon.social
Kien Tuong Truong @kientuong114.bsky.social PhD Student at ETH Zurich, Cryptography and more
Douglas Stebila @douglas.stebila.ca Cryptography professor at the University of Waterloo
https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/
dmnk @dmnk.bsky.social 【DΞCOMPILΞ NΣVΞR】
Android Red Team @google
Fuzzing @aflplusplus.bsky.social
CTF @enoflag
(opinions my own)
Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com Portland-based mathematician and software engineer. Building a homomorphic encryption compiler at Google.
https://jeremykun.com/linkgraph
https://heir.dev
Matthieu Rivain @mrivain.bsky.social Cryptographer, CEO @ CryptoExperts
https://www.matthieurivain.com/
Daniel Collins @dcol.bsky.social Postdoc at NYU/HUJI, previously Texas A&M/Purdue/Georgia Tech, PhD from EPFL in cryptography
https://dcol.me
Lenka @lenka.sh
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Russell W. F. Lai @russell-lai.bsky.social Assistant professor in cryptography at Aalto University, Finland
https://russell-lai.hk
https://research.cs.aalto.fi/crypto/
https://algorithms.fi
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social
UCU Left @uculeft.bsky.social Fighting for an active-member led trade union.
https://uculeft.org/
UCU Commons @ucucommons.org UCU Commons is a broad activist community working within and alongside the University and College Union (UCU). We are also on http://UCUCommons.org #UCUCommons
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social ♥️education ♥️unions ♥️democracy
Widening Participation @ Leeds Uni
UCU NEC, negotiator, Educ'n Comm Chair, Climate+Ecological Emergency Comm Co-chair
@leedsucu Branch Sec
vickyblakeucu.uk
Neurodivergent, LC
#EduSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #CleanTheAir
Cecilia Rossiter @cdcross.bsky.social Research Development Manager at King's College London
Michael Kölling @kolling.uk Computer Scientist, King's College London
Blog: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/proged
Gerard Canal @grarknal.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
PhD @iri-robotics.bsky.social, Computer Scientist and MSc AI.
Views are only my own.
📍 London, UK
🔗 https://gerardcanal.github.io/
Luca Viganò @lucavigano68.bsky.social Computer Scientist (Cybersecurity) & Playwright.
And a lot more.
Steffen Zschaler @steffen-zschaler.de Reader in Software Engineering. MDE, Languages, SE & Theatre. Director of MDENet, the expert network on model-driven engineering. All views my own and not of @kcl.ac.uk.
Zishan Rahman @zishanrahman18.bsky.social 22. He/him. Bri'ish. Muslim. Linux user. Computer Science Research PhD student at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Porfolio and occasional blog posts at https://zishan-rahman.github.io/
Dr Gefion Thuermer @gefiont.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🏳️🌈 Freelance Research Consultant & Research Fellow @ King's College London.
Interested in participation, citizen science, data management, HCI, EDI. Probably writing a Horizon Europe proposal. Invisibly disabled.
Seray Ibrahim @serayibrahim.bsky.social Lecturer at King’s College London.
Digital health research - disability & design, social interaction, and mental health.
https://seray-i.github.io/
Sana Khareghani @sanakb.bsky.social Chief Strategy Officer www.era4.com | Professor of Practice AI at KCL | Former Head of UK Gov Office for AI | MIT and SFU alum | passionate to get more #WomeninTech | RAI UK AI Policy lead | mom, wife and massive dork | All views own
Elena Simperl @elenasimperl.bsky.social Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
Sébastien Darses @sebdarses.bsky.social Math Assoc. Prof. (on leave from France)
Research: Prob / Stat / Ant
Teaching Project (non-profit): https://highcolle.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/sebastien-darses/research?authuser=0
Mikaela Brough @mikaelabrough.bsky.social Information Security PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. Using ethnography to understand (information) security and environmental social movements in PH & UK. MSc (Oxford), BA (McGill). mikaelabrough.github.io
Thom Wiggers @thom.wggrs.nl Post-Quantum cryptography
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
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Thomas Schneider @thoschneider.bsky.social https://www.thoschneider.de
Robert Merget (ic0ns) @ic0nz1.bsky.social I build tools to analyze implementations cryptographic protocols with a special heart for TLS and related protocols <3
Clement Jeanjean @clemjohnjohn.bsky.social Tech entrepreneur, AI, Cyber
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz @noahsd.bsky.social Nerd, computer scientist (http://noahsd.com), Cornell CS prof. I spend a lot of time thinking about lattices and sometimes other things.
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Christoph Striecks @cstriecks.bsky.social Senior Scientist in Cryptography at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology; alumni Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, more on https://christophstriecks.com
Maria Corte-Real Santos @maria.isogeny.club Post-doc at ENS de Lyon https://www.mariascrs.com/
Interested in post-quantum cryptography and isogenies
Co-organiser of The Isogeny Club https://isogeny.club/
Gabrielle Beck @becgabri.com Cryptographer. Postdoc at the LIRMM. (she/her)- H Sophie Hawkes @hawkesse.bsky.social PhD Student @ Royal Holloway, University of London | Cryptography and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies | She/Her
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Nick Spooner @nickspoon.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell. CS theory, cryptography, quantum computing. he/him
João Ribeiro @jmlribeiro.bsky.social Asst Prof, IT and IST, University of Lisbon. Likes coding theory, cryptography, and (pseudo)randomness.
Prev: faculty @ NOVA FCT, postdoc @ CMU, PhD @ Imperial
https://sites.google.com/site/joaorib94/
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
@cascremers.bsky.social @cascremers.bsky.social
Thomas Claburn @lot49.com Journalism: https://www.theregister.com/Author/Thomas-Claburn
Fiction: https://lot49.com
Code: https://github.com/dotnaught- X @xagawa.bsky.social @xagawa.bsky.social
Erkan Tairi @erkantairi.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ UC Berkeley
erkantairi.com
Eyal Ronen @eyalr0.bsky.social Researching applied cryptography and security. School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
https://eyalro.net
Thomas Eisenbarth @tom-crypt.bsky.social 🔒 Professor of IT Security @ University of Luebeck
💡 Research in systems security, applied cryptography, and side channels
🌐 More info: its.uni-luebeck.de
Patrick Hough @patrickhough.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in cryptography @ PACY Lab - UniBw, München.
Advocate for privacy-preserving technologies and collector of disco.
Homepage: patrick-hough.com
Luca De Feo @bsky.defeo.lu Researcher in cryptography @ IBM Research, chief isogenista, SageMath developer, DevOps in my spare time. Opinions my own.
On Mastodon: @luca_defeo@ioc.exchange
Maxime Bombar @mbombar.bsky.social Researcher in mathematics of post-quantum cryptography.
Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Université de Bordeaux, France.
Melanie Dymond Harper @meldh.bsky.social Digital certificates, crypto (that's _cryptography_, not anything currency-related), drumming, singing, photography, foxes. She/her. All opinions mine.
@wardbeullens.bsky.social @wardbeullens.bsky.social
Sabine Oechsner @proofnerd.bsky.social cryptography and pretty proofs | PL-curious | everything is MPC | assistant professor @ VU Amsterdam
soechsner.de
passagemath @passagemath.org General-purpose #OpenSource #Mathematics software system in #Python.
The pip-installable modularized portable compatible fork of #SageMath.
https://passagemath.org/ · https://github.com/passagemath · posts by @mkoeppe.bsky.social
Aravind (Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan) @aravind16coiner.bsky.social Lecturer @sydney.edu.au @sydneycompsci.bsky.social SyCrypt Group: https://sydney-cryptography-group.github.io
Previously PostDoc at NTT Research, CMU. PhD from FAU. Cryptography, Fairness, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
https://sak-thyagarajan.github.io
Muhammed Esgin @mfesgin.bsky.social Lecturer @MonashUni. Interested in various aspects of crypto(graphy): privacy-enhancing, quantum-safe, lattice-based, zero-knowledge, blockchain, … technologies
Website: https://mfesgin.github.io
ais @aisconnolly.bsky.social Privacy, MPC, and coSNARKs at TACEO
Emmanuel Thomé @emmanuelthome.bsky.social https://members.loria.fr/EThome/
Cryptography/Cryptanalysis/Computational Mathematics.
Views my own.
Dan Bogdanov @danbogdanov.bsky.social Chief Scientific Officer at Cybernetica. Bleeding edge tech in privacy, identity, cybersecurity, e-government. Personal opinions only. Do ask about Sharemind!
Rawane @ra1issa.bsky.social I work in cryptography and privacy. Im currently at Galois, inc.
Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social Computer Security, Privacy, and Public Policy. Deputy Head of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Former Fellow for Sen. Ron Wyden.
Likes teaching. Likes research. Likes Singing.
https://cohney.info
Noran Fouad @noranfouad.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Politics @Manchester Metropolitan University | Associate Fellow @RUSI | Ex @University of Oxford | PhD from @University of Sussex | Cybersecurity, Critical Security Studies, International Relations
Stefano Tessaro @stefanotessaro.bsky.social Professor at the University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering @uwcse.bsky.social
Working on cryptography, theoretical computer science, and computer security.
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tessaro/
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group
Matteo Maffei @matteomaffei.bsky.social Professor at TU Wien, coordinator TU Wien Cybersecurity Center, SecInt Doctoral School, SpyCoDe SFB. ERC grant holder.
Aniket Kate @PurdueCS, @Supra @aniketkate.bsky.social Taking one step at a time in crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrencies both) and privacy
Gustavo Banegas @gustavosbanegas.bsky.social Researcher at INRIA. Ph.D. in Cryptography (TU/e). Cryptographer , Surfer 🏄♂️, and Geek 🤓, http://www.cryptme.in The opinions here are my own. ;)
Stefan Dziembowski @stedziembowski.bsky.social Cryptographer, blockchain researcher, professor at the University of Warsaw, scientist at IDEAS NCBR. All views are my own.
Evgenios Kornaropoulos @kornaropoulos.bsky.social • Faculty: @georgemasoncs.bsky.social
• Postdoc: @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
• PhD: Brown University
Doing research in subsets of { Security, Cryptography, Privacy, AI, ∅}.
URL: https://encrypted.systems
Miro Haller @mirohaller.bsky.social PhD student @ UCSD working on applied cryptography
https://mirohaller.com
Daniel Slamanig @drl3c7er.bsky.social Full Professor of Cryptology @ Universität der Bundeswehr München | Research Institute CODE👾 Prev: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology; Lect. TU Wien; TU Graz
Elle Pearson @elle-lp.bsky.social PhD Student. Information Security. Royal Holloway, University of London
Clémentine Maurice @bloody-tangerine.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS. Feminist. I work on microarchitectural security.
https://cmaurice.fr
David Niehues @dniehues.bsky.social Interested in Cryptography
d_niehues@chaos.social in the Fediverse
d_niehues also that other site
Hans Heum @hheum.bsky.social PQ crypto* by day, happydieyoung by night
https://hans.heum.me // https://happydieyoung.com
*no, not that crypto