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The majority of computer users are unaware of FOCS. They won’t be aware that every fall, a few hundred theoretical…
The idea of eliminating randomness from a system that relies on it has an almost poetic quality. Mahdi Cheraghchi’s 2011…
One of those concepts that seems almost too sophisticated to be practical is secret sharing, which has been operating covertly…
One type of academic paper doesn’t shout. Arriving on arXiv on a Thursday night, it undergoes a quiet revision eleven…
There is a specific type of cryptography issue that subtly affects everything, from the encrypted whisper between two satellites to…
The way theoretical computer science keeps returning to issues that, on paper, appear to have been resolved decades ago is…
A theoretical computer science conference has an almost antiquated feel to it. People travel from all over the world, sit…
The way cryptographers discuss non-malleability has an odd stillness about it, as though the concept itself defies simple explanation. At…
Some political mischief doesn’t need a bag of cash or a smoke-filled chamber. All you need is a map and…
Hard drives are silently building up somewhere in an unremarkable server farm, perhaps in Virginia or a Chinese state that…