Studies methods to enhance user and system privacy and security.
Overview
Cryptography is the ancient science of encoding messages so that only the sender and receiver can understand them. Cryptography is now available to everyone thanks to the development of modern computers, which can perform more mathematical operations in a second than a human being could do in a lifetime. An ordinary PC can produce codes of such complexity that the most powerful supercomputer using the best available attack algorithms would not break them in a million years. Cryptography is used to secure telephone, Internet, and email communication and to protect software and other digital property. It may soon usher in a new age of money with electronic commerce. The Cryptography group within Microsoft Research serves multiple roles:
- Researching new cryptographic methods and applications.
- Working with standards bodies to develop security protocols.
- Providing internal security consulting on Microsoft products.
Former Crypto Group Interns
- Denis Charles, University of Wisconsin
- Sherman Chow, New York Univeristy
- Ari Feldman, Princeton University
- Vipul Goyal, UCLA
- David Gruenewald, University of Sydney
- Anton Mityagin, UC San Diego
- Michael Naehrig, TU Eindhoven
- Adam O'Neill, Georgia Tech
- Mariana Raykova, Columbia University
- Emily Shen, MIT
- Dan Shumow, University of Washington
- Ning Shang, Purdue University
- Kate Stange, Brown University
- Marco Streng, University of Leiden
- Bianca Viray, UC Berkeley
