Ian Miers @secparam

CS Prof. Security and applied cryptography. cs.umd.edu/~imiers/ Washington DC/ UMD Joined April 2012

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Ian Miers @secparam

2 days ago

Throwback to one of the cooler ideas @phildaian had before he moved on to better things than trying to get a PhD: DarkDOAs and vote buying. There's a later paper on this, but it doesn't have the same interesting flavor to it.

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Ian Miers @secparam

2 days ago

Ok so tempo is apparently not twitter for your Bank account. Claims some privacy. But no details, so unclear how this works. Or if it does.

Sam Blackshear @b1ackd0g

2 days ago

Ok so tempo is apparently not twitter for your Bank account. Claims some privacy. But no details, so unclear how this works. Or if it does.

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Ian Miers @secparam

6 days ago

The 2010s internet: Let's mock dissertation-length arguments about weird-ass fanfic tags. The 2025 internet: 'dubcon' is an ancillary part of the financial privacy discourse. The past was a better place. bsky.app/profile/acvale…

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

We've crossed a threshold. A paid subscription used to be the ultimate proof of humanity online, now its not enough to allow a single link click inside the NYT cooking app. The next few years are going to be an interesting race to extract more and more invasive proofs of humanity

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

"Privately customize your AI boyfriend!"-grad student's surprise use case for our just-submitted zk+MPC paper. For when your model updates need to stay **very** local. (Sleep deprivation meant he missed us adding the AI angle until our lab meeting, so this was a sudden outburst)

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

STARK/hash-based proof implementations aren't usually zero-knowledge. Why? "Efficiency" is the usual but somewhat surprising answer: compared to NTTs, re-randomization doesn't seem costly. A colleague raised an interesting alternative explanation: engineering complexity.

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IC3 @initc3org

3 weeks ago

How can you ensure anonymous (and potentially adversarial) clients have their reputation updated onchain without revealing the client's identity? New research by IC3 alum and @UofMaryland Prof. @secparam, along with students Michael Rosenberg, Hari Kailad, and Maurice Shih,…