Susan Hohenberger defended her thesis Friday at MIT. Susan’s thesis work is on developing secure algorithms for proxy cryptography. These are new cryptographic constructions that are designed to allow a third party, the proxy, to take a cryptographic object produced for (or by) a particular key and transform it so that it is a valid object for (or [...]
Today a few of us had lunch with Yoshi Kohno who is visiting MIT and gave a talk about his research on Monday. An important aspect of Yoshi’s research is the problem of translating theoretical security results into secure implementations. He gave an example of how the way that WinZip employed the theoretically secure encrypt-then-MAC paradigm of authenticated [...]
Boycott Performance Bike.
Performance is a company that sells bike components. They’re pretty big and have acquired their former competitors like Nashbar and SuperGo. That’s too bad because I really don’t like Performance. Maybe you shouldn’t either.
In 2001, Kevin Fu and I (along with some other members of the Applied Security Reading Group) were looking into the security [...]
