Security, privacy, & cryptography
Developing technologies that protect data, preserve privacy, and build trustworthy computing systems.
Video
Internet Cryptography for the Quantum World
Quantum mechanics has profound implications for cryptography. It tells us that perfectly-secure key-exchange is possible, and that factoring is not a good basis for secure encryption. More generally, it tells us that quantum data and…
Publication
Verifiable Functional Encryption
Event
ASIACRYPT 2016 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft is a sponsor of the 22nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT) in Hanoi, Vietnam, on December 4-8, 2016.
Project
Private Communication
Keeping communication private has become increasingly important in an era of mass surveillance and state-sponsored attacks. While hiding the contents of a conversation has well-known solutions, hiding the associated metadata (participants, duration, etc.) remains a…