Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim
Applied cryptographer. Mainly working in the cryptography auditing industry, but sometimes venturing back into academia.
Students taking applied cryptography midterm in Beirut right now, supervised by my TAs
Excited to soon be moderating the most baller panel discussion of all time at Cedarcrypt next week!!!
Today marks twenty years since the passing of my father, Prof. Hassan Kobeissi. Seen here on the right next to my mom’s brother, Ahmad Beydoun. My dad taught philosophy, wrote on epistemology, and was involved in translating notably Mircea Eliade and Nietzsche into Arabic.
Good riddance to Franziskus Kiefer, Cryspen's former scumbag-in-chief. Glad to see that place has cleansed itself from its corrupting elements.
This Lebanese dish is called, in Arabic, “macaroni with yogurt, garlic and crushed mint”, and that’s exactly what it is!
My applied cryptography course's summer semester started up this week. Here's an email I received yesterday from a student. I think that people should see this.
Pleased to announce revolutionary changes to my applied cryptography quiz answer keys
Pleased to announce Jevil, the catastrophic-failure-by-design signature scheme. Building upon my natural talent for catastrophic failure, Jevil establishes a new paradigm for post-quantum signature schemes.
I really can't wait to talk more about this absolutely ridiculous paper, by far my favorite paper I've ever written
Had a very vivid dream in which I was somehow levitating over Beirut, looked down, and saw it as a massive stone labyrinth, somehow with lightning bolts firing between the stones at random intervals. Parts of the labyrinth were drying out, while others had great big green vines all over them.