Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Cryptography done right has become increasingly important as the impacts of poor implementations are being felt by journalists, whistleblowers and political activists around the world.
Graduate student Nik Unger and Professor Ian Goldberg of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been working to improve cryptography for messaging. Encrypting messages provides a level of protection against their being read, but encryption also provides other benefits. Read the full story.