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Non-traditional pathways to a PhD in Cryptography and Algorithm Design in India (without Master’s or GATE)
I am seeking guidance on pursuing a PhD in Cryptography and Algorithm Design in India through non-traditional academic pathways.
Background
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) completed
CGPA: 8+
Strong ...
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Is cryptography stack exchange activity level decreasing?
This question is based on my normal almost daily observation of site activity, as a relatively active user.
Is the activity level decreasing over the last 6 months to a year?
If that is the case, what ...
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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Can you get hired as a cryptographer without a college degree?
I have a question that needs answering. I am currently in the middle of changing careers and have some interest in the tech field. Earlier this year, I made a list of jobs/careers that I wanted to ...
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Tags for the GOST standards
There are a number of questions related to GOST that should probably be tagged. How should we go about doing that? Most of them are referring to GOST 28147-89, the block cipher renamed to Magma in ...
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Are some MarkDown code blocks still rendered incorrectly?
Are things like ` text and triple backticks at the end of the post still rendered incorrectly? It seems that they still could be rendered incorrectly on a MathJax ...
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Would you like to learn more about Universal Composability?
I'm following the guidance here and wanted to promote a Universal Composability summer school that will be held in August. Attendance can be in person or virtual (via Zoom).
For more information see ...
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Should we report certain suspicious activities to local authorities?
There's this several spam answers claiming loss of fund through cryptocurrency-related scams and subsequent recovery by a certain individual, and they often leave with an email address purporting to ...
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Wrong location of the AI Assist link
Currently the link to the stackoverflow.ai chatbot is put between the various links of the site, so on e.g. this site I get:
Home - which links to crypto.stackexchange.com
Questions - which links to ...
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What is this new "AI Assist" item in the menu
I'm seeing this "AI Assist" option in the menu bar on the Cryptography main site. What does it do?
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Has the reputation of this user been mis-calculated?
I see a user that has > 100 reputation points, yet they've got only 1 Q with only 1 upvote.
They've got no other community participation, so I guess they can't have association bonus? Or is that ...
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Biographies from ChatGPT
Here are some of our members' biographies from ChatGPT
Poncho
Maarten Bodewes
Feel free to comment if you want.
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Possible error in old post about arithmetic over the curve secp256k1
The ultimate goal is to understand how to make the translation from private key to public address. This is being done in C++, with no libraries, with 512-bit arithmetic, because I want to really ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #7 on Cryptography has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...