Security, privacy, and cryptography
Career Opportunity
Research Intern – MSR Systems Research Group – Redmond
The Systems Research Group in Microsoft Research is devoted to advancing the state of the art in distributed systems and operating systems. Our aim is to make systems verifiably correct, scalable, fault-tolerant, manageable, fast and…
Microsoft Research Blog
RedCodeAgent: Automatic red-teaming agent against diverse code agents
Code agents help streamline software development workflows, but may also introduce critical security risks. Learn how RedCodeAgent automates and improves “red-teaming” attack simulations to help uncover real-world threats that other methods overlook.
Career Opportunity
Applied Scientist – Azure CXP Data & Applied Sciences
In the new era of AI, this role within Azure CXP Data & Applied Sciences team will provide you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge GenAI and ML (Machine Learning) solutions that drive specific, measurable,…
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IronDict: Transparent Dictionaries from Polynomial Commitments
We present IronDict, a transparent dictionary construction based on polynomial commitment schemes. Transparent dictionaries enable an untrusted server to maintain a mutable dictionary and provably serve clients lookup queries. A major open challenge is supporting…
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Lattice-Based Accumulator and Application to Anonymous Credential Revocation
An accumulator is a cryptographic system for compactly representing a set of elements such that every element in the set has a short membership witness. A dynamic accumulator, furthermore, allows elements to be added to…
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Efficient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model by having each selected device push only its model update to a central server, keeping raw data local. However, those updates can still leak sensitive information unless the server…
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Evaluating Privacy Policies under Modern Privacy Laws At Scale: An LLM-Based Automated Approach
Website privacy policies detail an online service’s information practices, including how they handle user data and rights. For many sites, these disclosures are now necessitated by a growing set of privacy regulations, such as GDPR…
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Paraphrase Project
The Paraphrase Project addresses a critical and emerging risk: as generative AI and synthetic biology advance, there is a growing possibility that open-source AI tools could be misused to design biological toxins that evade current…