Starting a Ph.D. in September

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

isis:
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,
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Yayyyy!!! Congratulations Isis! Such exciting news! Alison

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.
Congrats! Great news! -- Ian Goldberg Associate Professor and University Research Chair Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo

* isis <isis@torproject.org> [2016:04:13 19:48 +0000]:
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.
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Fantastic! Congratulations!! On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:48 PM, isis <isis@torproject.org> 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
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isis:
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,
Really excited for you! Yay!!!!! -Katie

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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.
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This is awesome! Congrats Isis and thank you for helping Tor!! On 04/13/2016 12:48 PM, 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,
_______________________________________________ tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project
-- PM at TorProject.org gpg fingerprint = 8F2A F9B6 D4A1 4D03 FDF1 B298 3224 4994 1506 4C7B @isa

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
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On 14 Apr 2016, at 05:48, isis <isis@torproject.org> wrote:
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.
Congrats! And I'm looking forward to seeing the results. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n

isis wrote:
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.
That is fantastic news! Huge congratulations! =)
participants (13)
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Alison
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Arlo Breault
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Arthur D. Edelstein
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dawuud
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Erinn Clark
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Griffin Boyce
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Ian Goldberg
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Isabela
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isis
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Karsten Loesing
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Kate
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Roya en
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Tim Wilson-Brown - teor