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How to fix email: making communication encrypted and decentralized with autocrypt

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How to fix email: making communication encrypted and decentralized with autocrypt

Email has been declared dead many times but refuses to die. There is a new effort underway to make encrypted end-to-end email communication as automatic as possible. It is part of a diverse set of efforts to reinvigorate the email ecosystem, which remains a crucial cornerstone of a functioning, open internet.

By Holger Krekel, Karissa McKelvey, Emil Lefherz, July 2018

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Encrypting a functionality<br />Crypto Lab, University of Texas at Austin

Toward computing over encrypted data in IoT systems

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Toward computing over encrypted data in IoT systems

The multitude of IoT devices contributes to the enormous amount of data stored on corporate clouds. Yet the level of computing power has outpaced advances in privacy protection. Could encrypted search preserve the privacy of data, while utilizing the computing power of the cloud?

By Hossein Shafagh, December 2015

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Alice and Bob in the new world

COLUMN: INIT

Alice and Bob in the new world

By Shashank Agrawal, March 2015

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Kristin Lauter on Cryptography and Mathematics

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Kristin Lauter on Cryptography and Mathematics

There are unique challenges posed by cryptography research. This interview examines potential threats to modern security techniques and how to overcome them.

By Shashank Agrawal, Billy Rathje, March 2015

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Encrypted Search

Encrypted Search

The need to embed search functionality into every aspect of technology has produced an abundance of information that is difficult to secure. Can advances in cryptography resolve the inherent conflicts of big data?

By Seny Kamara, March 2015

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Secure Your Data and Compute on It, Too

Secure Your Data and Compute on It, Too

Modern cryptography provides techniques to perform useful computations on sensitive data.

By Mike Rosulek, March 2015

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Ancient and modern cryptography

DEPARTMENT: Back

Ancient and modern cryptography

By Finn Kuusisto, March 2015

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Keeping Your Little Back Shop

COLUMN: INIT

Keeping Your Little Back Shop

By Maire Byrne-Evans, Christine Task, September 2013

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Something Bad Might Happen: Lawyers, anonymization and risk

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Something Bad Might Happen: Lawyers, anonymization and risk

The line between personal and anonymous information is often unclear. Increasingly it falls to lawyers to understand and manage the risks associated with the sharing of "anonymized" data sets.

By Marion Oswald, September 2013

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Personal, Pseudonymous, and Anonymous Data: The problem of identification

Personal, Pseudonymous, and Anonymous Data: The problem of identification

Why defining what counts as personal data is important for data protection and information sharing.

By Iain Bourne, September 2013

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The Tor Project: An inside view

The Tor Project: An inside view

A decade since the first version was released, Tor continues to be at the center of the debate around online privacy.

By Kelley Misata, September 2013

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It's Not About Winning, it's About Sending a Message: Hiding information in games

It's Not About Winning, it's About Sending a Message: Hiding information in games

New information hiding techniques use online games to transmit secrets covertly. The technique is simple, but the problem of detecting these covert channels is far from solved.

By Philip C. Ritchey, September 2013

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The XRDS Blog

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The XRDS Blog

The newly launched XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference overviews to privacy and security, from HCI to cryptography. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety.

By Wolfgang Richter, Dimitris Mitropoulos, December 2012

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Big privacy

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Big privacy

Approaches from computer science and statistical science for assessing and protecting privacy in large, public data sets.

By Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Jerome P. Reiter, September 2012

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Invitation to complexity theory

Invitation to complexity theory

Complexity theory provides new viewpoints on various phenomena that were considered by past thinkers.

By Oded Goldreich, March 2012

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Pseudorandomness and derandomization

The computational theory of pseudorandomness and cryptography.

By Luca Trevisan, March 2012

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Bletchley Park<br />Milton Keynes, UK

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Bletchley Park
Milton Keynes, UK

By Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2012

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Games for extracting randomness

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Games for extracting randomness

Two computer scientists have created a video game about mice and elephants that can make computer encryption properly secure---as long as you play it randomly.

By Ran Halprin, Moni Naor, December 2010

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Introduction

By Justin Solomon, September 2008

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Data encryption

By Ed DeHart, September 2008

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Introduction

By William Stevenson, May 2005

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Timing attacks on RSA

By Wing H. Wong, May 2005

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Protecting the integrity of agents

By Michael J. Grimley, Brian D. Monroe, June 1999

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