A system that can compare physical objects while potentially protecting sensitive information about the objects themselves has been demonstrated experimentally at the U.S. Department of Ener... Read more
Bitcoin is the new money: minted and exchanged on the Internet. Faster and cheaper than a bank, the service is attracting attention from all over the world. But a big question remains: are t... Read more
If implemented on a wide scale, quantum key distribution technology could ensure truly secure commerce, banking, communications and data transfer. The largest information technology agreemen... Read more
Researchers are hailing the new work as a watershed moment for cryptography As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the stran... Read more
American voters have no way of knowing that our votes have been counted, or counted correctly. We go to the polls and we punch buttons on a screen or fill out paper ballots and put them in a... Read more
Quantum cryptography has yet to deliver a truly unbreakable way of sending messages. Quantum entanglement may change that RECENT revelations of online snooping on an epic scale, by governmen... Read more
Could result in a sea change in how to secure computations New research to be presented at the 18th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2013) this week could result... Read more