Advancing nuclear detection and inspection
Assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering Areg Danagoulian probes deep inside cargo containers and ballistic warheads to ferret out fissile materials.
How to dismantle a nuclear bomb
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing
From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.
Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery
Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data.
South Africa startup Wala wins Zambezi Prize for micropayments platform
Legatum Center’s award for innovation in financial inclusion plays a key role in MIT’s push to expand African engagement.
Holding law-enforcement accountable for electronic surveillance
CSAIL system encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests.
Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies
Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.
For nuclear weapons reduction, a way to verify without revealing
New isotope-detection method could prove compliance but avoid divulging secrets.
Untraceable communication — guaranteed
New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.
A basis for all cryptography
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand.
Raising cryptography’s standards
Calculating encryption schemes’ theoretical security guarantees eases comparison, improvement.
MIT, White House co-sponsor workshop on big-data privacy
MIT hosts the first of three conferences on privacy policy
Encryption is less secure than we thought
For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong.
Securing the cloud
A new algorithm solves a major problem with homomorphic encryption, which would let Web servers process data without decrypting it.
Making quantum encryption practical
An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally.