I can't often talk about the research I do at Lincoln Laboratory, but sometimes the curtain parts for a brief instant and allows a quick peek:

Four innovative technologies garner 2012 R&D 100 Awards for MIT Lincoln Laboratory

And while I'm at it, let me reiterate the ...

Seeing as this is ostensibly a crypto blog, I'd like to comment on a paper from earlier this year: It's no secret-- Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions, by Stuart Schechter, A. J. Bernheim Brush, and Serge Egelman. This paper looks at the security ...

After a long period of inactivity, I am pleased to report signs of life for two of my papers-- and a tech report, besides.

My paper with Ran Canetti, Universally Composable Symbolic Analysis of Mutual Authentication and Key Exchange Protocols, has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Cryptography ...

It looks like I will be able to attend the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (also known simply as CCS 2009). Will any of my fellow cryptographers also be there? Or, if any my readers have been there before: this will be my first time. What should ...

One of the recent USENIX Security papers has been getting quite a bit of buzz: Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data. It's really a very clever paper, proposing a way to do something apparently impossible: ensuring that data (like email) 'disappears' after a certain period of time.

The ...