Security, privacy, and cryptography
Video
Attestations over TLS 1.3 and ZKP
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is fundamental for securing data transmission over the Internet, providing encrypted and authenticated channels that protect users’ data. However, certain scenarios require not only secure transmission but also the…
Publication
Inferentially-Private Private Information
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of December 16, 2024
NeoMem: hardware/software co-design for CXL-native memory tiering; Chimera: accurate retrosynthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse inductive biases; GA4GH task execution API enables multicloud task execution.
Project
Project STEMA
STEMA: Secure, Trustworthy, and Enhanced Memory for Azure The mission of Project STEMA is to pursue memory technologies that provide increased security, trustworthiness, and performance to Microsoft Azure. Project STEMA is a collaborative effort involving AHSI, SCHIE,…
Group
MSR Cryptography
Microsoft Research The Cryptography team at Microsoft Research consists of researchers and engineers who make technology more secure, more trustworthy, and more private for every person and organization. Our focus is on cryptography, security, and…
Video
A Closer Look at Falcon
Falcon is a winner of NIST’s six-year post-quantum cryptography standardization competition. Based on the celebrated full-domain-hash framework of Gentry, Peikert and Vaikuntanathan (GPV) (STOC’08), Falcon leverages NTRU lattices to achieve the most compact signatures among…
