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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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