yeah! sounds great. congrats! On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 07:48:15PM +0000, isis wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very happy to announce I'll be starting a position as a Ph.D. researcher > in Applied Cryptography at the Institute for Computing and Information > Sciences of Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, starting in September this year. > I'll be working with Lejla Batina as my supervisor, and Joan Daemen and Peter > Schwabe as advisors. My topic is broadly "make tor's crypto better". More > specifically, it's "make tor post-quantum"; beyond that, it could reasonably > include working with other cryptographers to design some of the weirder > constructions which tor needs, e.g. the 509-byte chained wide-block cipher > that Nick's been going on about. > > The position lasts for four years, but covers only 50% of my time, because my > supervisor and I are in full agreement that it would be more beneficial — both > to Tor and to my thesis — if the other 50% of my time is spent doing development > for Tor. > > As a non-academic, I feel that this is a somewhat unique opportunity. I've no > desire to publish papers just for the sake of publishing something with my > name on it — I care about improving Tor. My hope is that this Ph.D. results > in the design and implementation of things that we've needed for a while. > > Best Regards, > -- > ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft > _________________________________________________________ > OpenPGP: 4096R/0A6A58A14B5946ABDE18E207A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 > Current Keys: https://fyb.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt > _______________________________________________ > tor-project mailing list > tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project
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