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Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices

By Mordechai Rorvig
February 25, 2022
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For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.

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Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

By Erica Klarreich
November 10, 2020
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A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.

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Cryptography That Is Provably Secure

By Kevin Hartnett
April 2, 2019
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Researchers have just released hacker-proof cryptographic code — programs with the same level of invincibility as a mathematical proof.

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Why Quantum Computers Might Not Break Cryptography

By Mark Kim-Mulgrew
May 15, 2017
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A new paper claims that a common digital security system could be tweaked to withstand attacks even from a powerful quantum computer.

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Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed

By Kevin Hartnett
September 20, 2016
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Computer scientists can prove certain programs to be error-free with the same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems.

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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

By Natalie Wolchover
September 8, 2015
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In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.

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A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box

By Kevin Hartnett
September 2, 2015
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A recent cryptographic breakthrough has proven difficult to put into practice. But new advances show how near-perfect computer security might be surprisingly close at hand.

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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

By Erica Klarreich
January 30, 2014
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In a watershed moment for cryptography, computer scientists have proposed a solution to a fundamental problem called “program obfuscation.”

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Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data

By Erica Klarreich
December 10, 2012
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A mathematical technique called “differential privacy” gives researchers access to vast repositories of personal data while meeting a high standard for privacy protection.

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