Nigel Smart✓

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Followers

642

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.6%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Cool videos explaining MPC.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.51 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

4.8×

Follows 134 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Cool videos explaining MPC.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmMmq9N9FY&list=PLvJRBKreefNyPFgkjcFJ2UMIy6Icche1H ★ 9

I wrote an introductory article about "Preventing the Quantum Crypto-Apocalypse with Linear Algebra with Errors" for the newsletter of the London Mathematical Society. See page 25 of... https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-file… ★ 4

Join me on my keynote session, Cat or Dog? What PETS Are and How to Choose Them, at the Privacy-Enhancing Technology Summit Europe (27-28 February 2024, London)! My presentation will cover what to expect from Privacy-Enhancing Technologi… Joshua Baron, Sanjay Saravanan, Jordan Brandt, Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, and myself discuss Multi-Party Computation in a new article for the ACM... https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3639448 ★ 4 Journal of Cryptology has a call for a Topical Collection on Modern Zero-Knowledge Protocols https://iacr.org/jofc/TopicalCollection-mzkp.html ★ 2 The first edition of the new IACR Communications in Cryptology is finally kicking off! The first call for papers is now online: https://cic.iacr.org/callforpapers Consider to submit your best results if... ... you care about diamond open a… ★ 4 Am in Brussels today talking at BE-Cyber on cryptographic techniques to underpin privacy in Web3.... https://www.cybersecuritycoalition.be/agenda/be-cyber-experience-sharing-event-2/ CFP for FHE.org in Toronto.... https://fhe.org/conferences/conference-2024/call-for-presentations ★ 1 As usual great to do a podcast with Anna at the ZK-Podcast.... https://zeroknowledge.fm/295-2/ ★ 1 Morten Dahl is going to be chatting about Zama work on FHE and blockchains (the fhEVM) next week.... https://www.meetup.com/fhe-org/events/296075055/ Call for papers for the new IACR journal is out.. cic.iacr.org/callforpapers Please support this journal. It is the outcome of a many year community led effort to improve the publication process in cryptography. ★ 4 It is almost six weeks until the 2024 edition of our KU Leuven Computing on Encrypted Data Industry Day... https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/projects/coed/event/coed-industry-day/ We have a top notch set of speakers, so sign up if you are… ★ 4

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Home server

ioc.exchange

A threat-intel & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.5× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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About

Interested in cryptography and computing on encrypted data in particular (Multi-Party Computation, Homomorphic Encryption). Co-Founder of Real World Cryptography conference. Former Vice-President IACR Former co-founder of Identum (bought by Trend Micro) and Unbound Security (bought by Coinbase). Currently Prof. at KU Leuven and Chief Academic Officer at Zama. Citizen of Nowhere