9/Dec 2014
13 min. read
This is the first in a series of guest posts highlighting new research in applied cryptography. This post is written by Travis Mayberry from Northeastern University. Note that Travis is graduating this year and will be on the job market.
ORAM Background Oblivious RAM is a very hot research topic right now. As Seny has written about here, it can be used to perform searches over outsourced encrypted data while maintaining the highest possible levels of security against a malicious storage provider.
5/Dec 2014
4 min. read
If you follow me on Twitter you have no doubt heard my occasional outbursts and rants on what I perceive to be biases in the current publication model in cryptography. In short, I think that top cryptography conferences are heavily biased against certain areas of cryptography and for others.
Some of the areas that I think have a much harder time getting into top-tier crypto conferences include Applied Cryptography. I don' t think this is particularly controversial and, from what I hear, CRYPTO has even tried to rectify this recently (e.
28/Jul 2013
7 min. read
In my previous post, I described a cryptographic protocol that could allow a telecommunications company to keep its data, and the NSA to legally access it (i.e., with authorization from a FISA court) without revealing its queries.
In response to the post, a few people have asked me whether the protocol was implemented and, if not, where they could get implementations of the underlying components. My response is that I did not implement it.
