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MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.

From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.

Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data.

Legatum Centers award for innovation in financial inclusion plays a key role in MITs push to expand African engagement.

CSAIL system encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests.

Cryptographic system could enable crowdsourced genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.

New isotope-detection method could prove compliance but avoid divulging secrets.

A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.

Calculating encryption schemes theoretical security guarantees eases comparison, improvement.

MIT hosts the first of three conferences on privacy policy

For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong.

A new algorithm solves a major problem with homomorphic encryption, which would let Web servers process data without decrypting it.

MIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption.

Interactive proofs mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.

Awards recognize a diverse range of technologies

Savvy hackers can steal a computers secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.

A new twist on pioneering work done by MIT cryptographers almost 30 years ago could lead to better ways of structuring contracts.

A switch that lets one photon alter the quantum state of another could point the way to both practical quantum computers and a quantum Internet.

Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.

A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.

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