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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.
Rethinking trust in direct messages in the AI era
| Kim Laine, Shrey Jain, Betül Durak, Radames Cruz Moreno, and Robert Sim
Microsoft researchers are proposing a new way to ensure greater trust and accountability in email, texts, direct messages on social platforms, even phone calls, to help mitigate sophisticated threats from AI-related scams and fraud.
Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography
| Manuel Costa, Weidong Cui, Karen Easterbrook, Paul England, Hamed Khanpour, Kim Laine, Kapil Vaswani, Mike Walker, and Ryen W. White
Trust is essential for people and organizations to use technology with confidence. At Microsoft, we strive to earn the trust of our customers, employees, communities, and partners by committing to privacy, security, the responsible use of AI, and transparency. At…
Password Monitor: Safeguarding passwords in Microsoft Edge
| Kristin Lauter, Sreekanth Kannepalli, Kim Laine, and Radames Cruz Moreno
One of the biggest pillars for Microsoft Edge is trust. Today, to further bolster that trust while keeping our customers safe, we introduce a new feature called Password Monitor. The feature notifies users if any of their saved passwords have…
Private AI Bootcamp: Microsoft researchers share knowledge on cryptography, security, and privacy with PhD students
| Wei Dai
The fields of cryptography and machine learning (ML) are evolving at a rapid pace and are each complex in their own ways. The Cryptography and Privacy Research Group at Microsoft Research has led the way in creating a new research…
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,…