Security, privacy, and cryptography
Microsoft Research Blog
Mashup Developers Get Chance to Romp in Sandbox
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Mashups have become one of the hallmarks of the Web 2.0 era. The practice of combining two sets of related yet disparate data from unrelated sources in one…
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Differential Privacy: A Survey of Results
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Delegatable Anonymous Credentials
Anonymous credential systems allow users to anonymously obtain credentials from organizations, and to anonymously and unlinkably prove possesion of valid credentials. Often in practice, however, a user authenticates using some credential chain: a root organization…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research New England’s Focus: Research Relationships
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research On Feb. 4, Microsoft Research unveiled its latest lab, to be called Microsoft Research New England and to be based in Cambridge, Mass., in the midst of the…
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Predicting Secret Keys via Branch Prediction
We give an overview of a new software side-channel attack, enabled by the branch prediction capability common to all modern high-performance CPUs. The penalty paid (extra clock cycles) for a miss-predicted branch can be used…
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