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Proud LatinAmerican • Legendary quantum lady/cryptographer • Researcher @brave • she/they • hrpc/pquip co-chair @inretafo anti-fraud @w3c @otr_im @LondonU

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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Today, we are publishing several practically-exploitable cryptographic vulnerabilities in the Matrix ( @matrixdotorg ) standard and their flagship client Element, with Daniel Jones ( @djwj_ ), Benjamin Dowling ( @dowlingbj ) and Martin R. Albrecht ( @martinralbrecht ).
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@claucece
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5 years
My boyfriend and colleague is detained for 19 days now. In his words: "The leaders of the world are waging a war against knowledge. The case against me is based on the books I've read and the technology I have." #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
I'm very happy to announce that from next week I'm joining @brave to work on privacy, post-quantum, research, and more! Sad of leaving my colleagues but excited for the future!
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini está detenido por 59 días. Escribe en una carta desgarradora: "Es como si fueran dos mí, el regular y la sombra, y susurra pensamientos oscuros en mi oído todo el tiempo, todos los días son una pelea". Por qué está sufriendo esto? ... #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
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5 years
Happy birthday, Ola. Hope it was ok from your prison cell in one of the horrible Ecuadorian prisons. Hope you can sleep in the cardboard. Hope you eat something as you looked so skinny and malnourished. Hope the situation in the prisons in Ecuador change. I miss you. #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Ok, the time has come. I'm going to learn C++. Any resources to recommend (I'm familiar with C, Golang and Rust)?
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Ok, I finally sat down and wrote the amazing recommendations I was given for PL and compiler design into a blog post: Much thanks to @johnregehr @echristo @ShriramKMurthi @shafikyaghmour @MarisaVeryMoe @JeffDean and many more! <3
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
My boyfriend, open srouce developer, cryptographer researcher contributor is still detained. Please, #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Announcing the lattice-based cryptography club! Do you want to learn this type of cryptography? Find resources here: Beautifully curated by @octaviopk and me. Thank you @Leptan @mfesgin @cryptocecy and more for allowing us to put your amazing thesis there!
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Wow!! Our paper "Practically-exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix" got the Distinguished Paper Award (DPA) at @IEEESSP , 2023. So wonderful! Happy for my co-authors @martinralbrecht @DowlingBJ @djwj_ and this amazing work!
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@claucece
sofía celi
7 months
Finally here!! <3 Thanks @djwj_ !
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Very happy of these news! See you in Tokyo for some Brave there!
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Taking the metro with an interesting character
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Tomorrow (Wednesday 6th) at @BlackHatEvents , we are presenting with @martinralbrecht , @DowlingBJ and @djwj_ our work on finding practically exploitable vulnerabilities in Matrix. Join us!! (and check our paper: )
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
I'm currently reading 'Mastering Go', 'Programming Language Pragmatics' and 'Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools'. I'm loving them.. any other suggestions for someone learning programming language design and compilers? @pati_gallardo @johnregehr
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Hey! I'm looking for a new job where I can show my C, Golang and cryptographic skills, while I still help the nice NGO I work for. I you know of something, let me know ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
I'm really really happy to be joining the cryptographic team at @Cloudflare with @grittygrease , @BrenTwentyTen , @armfazh and so many other amazing people very soon! This is such an amazing thing!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
My beautiful research team at @brave has now a simple page with all our papers and blogs. So, if you are interested in our work, working with us or more, take a look:
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Wrote a very quick blogpost on past and upcoming post-quantum signatures: (to keep on my mind what to keep track). Conclusion: many research still yet to come!
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
Inspired by @CryptoHack__ ;) Thread around Latttice-Based Cryptography Reading For the past few months, with some amazing people, we have been learning lattice-based cryptography. These are some useful resources:
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Lo que pasa en el caso de Ola Bini es una criminalización del conocimento, del estudio, de tener cosas, de ser amigo de alguien. Porque es ahora un crimen estudiar, saber específicamente sobre una materia o tener dispositivos electrónicos. No es justo. #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
10 months
Today, it is two years since I have been able to fully work on cryptography (and security) research. As I don't have a master or PhD in CS (or bachelor in it! ;)), I have considered these two years as intense learning and producing (my own masters). I'm very with the results!
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Just got my EU residence permit and I'm very happy ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
My first crypto paper: 'A Fast and Simple Partially Oblivious PRF, with Applications' with amazing Nirvan Tyagi, @TomRistenpart , Stefano Tessaro, @__caw__ and @grittygrease :
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@claucece
sofía celi
6 years
Hey! A version 4 of the OTR protocol is now out! If you are a cryptographer, security research or someone that cares about privacy, take a look at it! :) #OTR #OTRv4 The draft and the discussion in the mailing list:
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
This is a very special week <3! We will talk about our @Cloudflare efforts at post-quantum cryptography (from the math to the actual implementation)! With the love of @bwesterb @ThomWiggers @grittygrease @jgrahamc @kkblinder @vgonc , Guille, Goutam, Lenka and more 1/many
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Wow!! So Kyber it is! The latest IP Update on the NIST workshop.
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
My first blogpost at @Cloudflare with the amazing @ThomWiggers and it had to be about TLS and Post-quantum. Check what we have been doing lately, as presented at @RealWorldCrypto
@Cloudflare
Cloudflare
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KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures.
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Woo!! The 'Practically-exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix' is now accepted to IEEE S&P 2023!! Amazing!! Here we go: @martinralbrecht @djwj_ @DowlingBJ
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 months
Omg!!! Accepted to AfriaCrypt! This is amazing!
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
One of the things of which I'm proudest lately is that while being alone, depressed, with at least one suicide attempt, with some people being a dick to me, I managed to keep the work of OTRv4 alive, and even make the summit happen. And that is the best for me.
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Jeremy Hammond has already served most of his 10 year sentence. Now he is asked to testify before a Federal Grand Jury, like @xychelsea . This is completely unfair and should not happen. #FreeJeremyHammond
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Here we are: the Post-Quantum Use In Protocols working group at @ietf has been created!!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Next week is my final week at Cloudflare. Sad but also excited for what comes next (details coming soon)! The world of post-quantum and privacy will continue ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
9 months
As Latincrypt2023 in Ecuador is wrapping up, we will like to thank everyone who made this conference possible. Here is the amazing people with the Antisana in the back. Antisana sits at the humble height of 5,753 metres. This is cryptography of altitude.
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Just got the Japanese visa! Ready for RWC (and HACS, RWPQC, IETF and no sleep)!
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
Today, I managed to buy my own personal domain for the first time! Finally, had some money to invest into it. And then I put it on Cloudflare. Very happy with it ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
I constantly feel that I'm not doing enough at my job or that I'm not good enough for it. I feel deeply unqualified for my field regardless of anything. Any thoughts on how to shake off those feelings?
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
Really thrilled to know that our paper around implementing and measuring KEMTLS (post-quantum in TLS1.3) has been accepted to Latincrypt2021 (my first in a cryto conference)... published soon ;) @bwesterb @ThomWiggers @armfazh @__caw__ @grittygrease @lukevalenta , Goutam Tamvada
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini está detenido por 60 días ahora. Son dos meses ya. En una carta escribe: "La verdad es que es la fiscalía la que no ha estado interesada en colaborar. No está bien hacerme responsable y castigarme por eso." Por qué sigue detenido? #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Yes! I always get shocked when native English speakers have to learn another language, work in that language and show it as an achievement. Almost all the rest of the world usually have to learn English and work in English, without any recognition.
@JohannesTextor
Johannes Textor
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Are native English speakers privileged in academia?
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Second day at @Cloudflare officially and I'm extremely happy!!! Such a beautiful environment!
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
After like 7 months, finally got the time and place to cut my hair (although, I did a pretty good job cutting it myself) ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini is detained for 65 days now.His father says: "My son is imprisoned without knowing what he is accused of and without evidence.He has become a political pawn in a large game where the US is also involved".Why is a friendship condemned? #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
With George from @torproject , @mmaker and @__caw__ , we decided to create an amazing website for anonymous credentials schemes: , a taxonomy for them all. Want to collaborate on it? Ping us! <3
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
I really do love my work now so much that I go to sleep wanting to wake up to continue the research ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Congratulations! Your paper "FrodoPIR: Simple, Scalable, Single-Server Private Information Retrieval” has been conditionally accepted to @PET_Symposium 2023.." very great news!! Paper will be on eprint soon :). Great work with @alxdavids and @gpestana from @brave !
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
I will be at the @PET_Symposium next week! We will be presenting FrodoPIR, a simple, scalable, single-server PIR scheme: we have the presentation with @alxdavids and a beautiful poster with me ;) (also, check the presentations from @AliShahinShams1 )
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
First day in Japan and I'm already considering living here.
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Today is my birthday! Two years ago, I was in abusive situation. Las year, I was in exile. And now in lockdown. But things have looked up and I'm very happy for this year ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Today: the last posts of the post-quantum blog post series at @Cloudflare !! The beautiful announcement comes: we are migrating all internal connections to use post-quantum cryptography!!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
You can read about them here: , and our paper is here: . Matrix has put out fixes for some of these vulnerabilities, see
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini is detained for 66 days now. Yesterday, he gave the statement for over 5 hours. Never I have heard of such a long time for a statement. His defense has also asked for a habeas corpus. Why is he detained still? #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Paper rejected. Felt sad. But, then, well, it also means we can make the paper better and fix some modelling issues. So a win is a win!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Want to work with me on privacy, cryptography and real-world concerns?? Apply to Brave!!
@realhamed
Hamed Haddadi
2 years
Security/Privacy Researcher job @brave , joining our super productive and openly publishing Research Team. Security/Privacy Researcher at Brave London - Remote Please spread the word :) 🦁
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
I briefly did some Rust in the past and now I fully love it. Bye, Golang (I like you, but I like Rust more).
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@claucece
sofía celi
10 months
Register for WinC (Women in Cryptography) Coffee Breaks! These are monthly 1-1s breaks of 30 minutes over three months (Oct, Nov, Dec) for the WinC community. Sign up: More information in our Discord! () @KBoudgoust @TheAlliBishop
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini is detained for 42 days now.Yesterday,I gave a short talk at #eurocrypt2019 about him and his work.The amount of support from the cryptographic community has been amazing as this reminds people of times when cryptography was persecuted. It seems it still is. #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
My boyfriend is detained for 18 days now. In his words: "I urge all of you to consider these questions. Devote your life to the most important thing." #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 months
Extremely happy to announce that Latincrypt2025 will be held in 'la tierra del olvido', Medellín, Colombia with the great organization of Daniel Cabarcas, @deescuderoo , and more! Submit your best works as Latincrypt is great and for the diversity
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
"She said there seemed to be a lack of understanding about the work Mr. Bini did, and what “cryptographic and privacy-preserving tools actually mean.”, as I said for the @nytimes , working for cryptography and privacy is not a crime. #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
My boyfriend is an honest, good man! Let him free today! #FreeOlaBini
@el_telegrafo
El Telégrafo Ecuador
5 years
AHORA | #OlaBini , quien está detenido desde el pasado 11 de abril, ingresa a la sala de la Corte Provincial de #Pichincha en donde se efectuará la audiencia de habeas corpus. Vía: @magacastal
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
After some delays, due to persecution, the #OTRv4 team have finally finished some issues and now have a new draft for review. You can find it here: If you are interested, take a look! @nickm_tor @nikitab @ahfaeroey @TomRittervg @veorq
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
First formal analysis paper posted now! We formally analysed KEMTLS with the Tamarin Prover: in two modes: with the TLS 1.3 model and on itself. Paper accepted to ESORICS 2022. With Jonathan Hoyland @ThomWiggers and @dstebila
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Oh! Happy our talk is in the section of "Crypto for the People" at RWC2023 and with the other talk that I was amazed at (so much looking forward to seeing Leah and @senykam )!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
"Congratulations! We are glad to inform you that your contribution has been accepted!" Yes!!! <3 (paper coming public soon)
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Our attacks break confidentiality and authentication against malicious homeservers. The underlying vulnerabilities show a lack of a unified and formal approach to security guarantees in Matrix.
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 months
New paper! Together with @alxdavids we introduce 'Chalamet' a keyword-based PIR scheme! We also introduce a framework so that any index LWE-based PIR scheme can be transformed to keyword-based via the usage of binary fuse filters
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Extremely happy to have been able to work on this with the amazing Brave team! This feature can help people suffering with IPV to visit help websites without leaving a trace that they visited it (which can lead to further abuse if found out).
@brave
Brave
1 year
Brave will begin rolling out an important new privacy feature called "Request Off the Record (OTR)" in version 1.53. OTR aims to help people who need to hide their browsing behavior from others who have access to their devices.
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Just got the 'Secret Colors: a gentle introduction to cryptography' by @martinkl and Mitch Seymour, and it sooo beautiful! Read about it here:
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
La audiencia de apelación a la prisión preventiva de mi novio y excelente desarrollador, Ola Bini, es hoy. Ha estado detenido por 22 días ya. Si crees que la gente no debe estar detenida por leer ciertos libros o por dispositivos que tiene, muestra tu apoyo #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Happy that my RWC2023 talk is done! And for the people that liked the outfit: it is from Issay Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto, two japanese desingers that went against the traditional fashion. A bit of a love letter to Japan ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Ola Bini is detained for 38 days now. In his words: "Cypherpunks write code. This means just what it says. If we want a better world, we have to take the responsibility. We have to build it ourselves." #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
These vulnerabilities are caused by insecurity by design, by protocol confusion, by a lack of domain separation, or by implementation bugs. Let's explain them now!
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@claucece
sofía celi
8 months
Hi, everyone! As you all know we will soon have a Women in Cryptography (WinC) seminar. Our first speaker will be Elette Boyle. We want this talk to be interactive so send questions you will like Elette answer in our discord server ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Here an small blog post of the attacks to post-quantum cryptography of the week: Touching Rowhammer and FrodoKEM, and the Breaking Supersingular Isogeny Diffie–Hellman paper ;) Very briefly but mainly wanting to highlight that PQC needs time to mature.
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
It's coming (fyi: first template, not production ready): The Latin Americans in Cryptography website! @gustavosbanegas @PatrickLonga @Jebus_dguez @deescuderoo @armfazh
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Got reminded that 5 years ago, I won a scholarship from @RailsGirlsSoC to learn to code. A year later, I started working at @thoughtworks where I further learned. 3 years ago I got interested in cryptography and started with it. And now working at an amazing team at @Cloudflare
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
My last weeks have been: - Move to another country - Have last meetings with the women help groups - Organize a summit - Give some talks - Finish the on boarding process - Take the university final exams - Have a new apartment All done. Going to finally sleep now.
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Really happy that my talk about gender-based online abuse in the Global South has been accepted to @enigmaconf ! Very happy and excited! <3 #enigma2021
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Let's resist the surveillance pandemic. Use a mask, use Tor. Join me and donate to @torproject : #UseAMaskUseTor
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@claucece
sofía celi
5 years
Mi novio, Ola Bini, está detenido por 24 días ya. Uno de los argumentos para ello que se su data está encriptada. En otras partes de mundo, compañías tienen casos legales porque no usan encriptación para proteger su data. Parece ser lo contrario acá. #FreeOlaBini
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Finally on eprint!!
@IACR_News
IACR
1 year
#ePrint Practically-exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix: MR Albrecht, S Celi, B Dowling, D Jones
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Yes, I am that persnickety person that will check all the proofs on papers in the appendix, and notify you if something seems wrong. Very annoying I am (it has helped me to learn a lot, though).
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 months
Paper definitely accepted to CCS and another to Africacrypt! Very nice news to a horrible week.
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sofía celi
2 years
I'm so astonished about how happy I am lately: so much time and space for reading, writing, thinking, nicely debating. I truly love my job ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Falling more and more in love with Japan. Osaka is soo cool!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
I made a very, very informal note on the different Privacy-Preserving Measurements Techniques that are there: some differential privacy, some Prio, some STAR: (many work to do still on it). This is an extra supplement for an incoming talk ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Our beautiful PQC scheme MAYO is fast and has super nice parameters. Check them out in: (with new spec, numbers and code) by @WardBeullens @primaboinca Matthias Kannwischer and Basil Hess!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
A formal security analysis of the protocol design is required. For more questions, see: Also, read the piece from Dan Goodin ( @dangoodin001 ) at Ars Technica about our attacks:
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@claucece
sofía celi
4 years
Changing the profile pic and some showing of the lockdown hair.
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
Are you interested to know what it means to be a LatinAmerican cryptographer? We are running a workshop in LatinCrypt2021 about it! Want to learn more? See:
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
My favourite of our slides:
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
It is coming! NIST will announce the PQC winners: July 5th!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
Yes!! KYBER and Dilithium for PQC (plus Falcon and SPHINCS+)! Congrats to the teams and specially my friend @cryptojedi ! This is the result of a lot of work and effort!
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
The PQC scheme MAYO has now a brand new website, logo and more! Check it out: Made with love with @WardBeullens !
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@claucece
sofía celi
3 years
Me: ok, submitting an IETF draft should be easy... Oh, no. It was confusing and not nice. But we succeeded! Presenting AuthKEM for using KEMs for authentication in TLS1.3:
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@claucece
sofía celi
1 year
Thank you @torproject for helping so much and caring about the global south! Specially thanks @0xggus .. a new tor doggie here ;)
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@claucece
sofía celi
2 years
I'm very happy to say that I'm the co-chair of the hrpc group at IRTF alongside the amazing @MalloryKnodel ! Looking forward to the amazing work and working with amazing people as @csperkins <3
@inretafo
IRTF – Internet Research Task Force
2 years
Please welcome to Sofía Celi @claucece who joins the IRSG as co-chair of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations research group
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