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Intern Insights: Dr. Josh Benaloh with Anunay Kulshrestha and Karan Newatia
| Josh Benaloh, Anunay Kulshrestha, and Karan Newatia
Every year, interns help advance research at Microsoft. In “Intern Insights,” PhD students Anunay Kulshrestha and Karan Newatia talk with cryptographer Josh Benaloh about working on the verifiable election technology ElectionGuard.
In the news | Fast Company
ElectionGuard named to Fast Company “AI and Data: Next Big Things in Tech” list
Microsoft and InfernoRed - For securing the democratic process | These companies partnered to create ElectionGuard, an open-source system that keeps data encrypted even while it’s being processed, allowing people to check that their vote has been counted while keeping…
News from the front in the post-quantum crypto wars with Dr. Craig Costello
Dr. Craig Costello is in the business of safeguarding your secrets. And he uses math to do it. A researcher in the Security and Cryptography group at Microsoft Research, Dr. Costello is among a formidable group of code makers (aka…
In the news | Harvard University IQSS
Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft announce a major collaboration to develop an open data differential privacy platform
Microsoft teams with Harvard to build a platform to ensure data is kept private, while enabling researchers from academia, government, nonprofits, and the private sector to gain new and novel insights that can rapidly advance human knowledge.
Securing the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
Episode 65, February 27, 2019 - Dr. Josh Benaloh gives us a brief but fascinating history of elections, explains how the trade-offs among privacy, security and verifiability make the relatively easy math of elections such a hard problem for the…
Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
Episode 38, August 22, 2018 You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are because nothing bad happens to you? Well,…
Awards | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Josh Benaloh receives the 2016 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Josh Benaloh received the 2016 Pioneer Award in August 2016 from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for his contribution to the “Keys Under Doormats” report. The publication argues against requests from Congress and law enforcement agencies for exceptional access to encrypted data and…
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