activities

Reports

• Center for Democracy and Technology report on on end-to-end encryption and content moderation (report, blog post)
• National Academies of Sciences report on encryption and exceptional access (report)

Surveys

• How to Search on Encrypted Data
  • Introduction (blog)
  • Deterministic encryption (blog)
  • Functional encryption (blog)
  • Oblivious RAM (blog)
  • Searchable symmetric encryption (blog)

Conferences & Workshops

• Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Encrypted Search
• A 3-part series on Technology and Structural Inequity with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
  • Privacy and Surveillance (info, video)
  • Policing and Technology (info, video)
  • Bias and Discrimination in AI (info, video)
• ICERM workshop on Encrypted Search (info, videos)

Older writing

• The FBI’s COINTELPRO (blog)
• Is the NSA metadata program legal (blog)
• Restructuring the NSA metadata program (blog, MIT Tech Review)
• Are compliance and privacy always at odds? (blog, Lawfare)
• How not to learn cryptography (blog)

Interviews

• A Q&A with Nature on crypto & technology for the people
• Developments in cryptography with PBS’s White House Chronicle (video)

Some articles about our work

• A Plan to Stop Data Breaches with Dead Simple Encryption (Wired)
• MongoDB Moves Encryption Out of the Server (Wired)
• A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived (Wired)
• How Cryptography Lets Down Marginalized Communities (Wired)
• This Encrypted Gun Registry Might Bridge a Partisan Divide (Wired)
• An App That Encrypts Your Photos From Camera to Cloud (Wired)
• From your photos to your location: “structured encryption” could be the next big thing in privacy protection (CBC Spark Radio)
• Using structured encryption to search protected photos in the cloud (Boing Boing)