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Some Good (Cryptography) News

Few people know much about cryptography. What the public learns, from headlines and advertisements that often exploit those headlines, is that existing cryptosystems seem to break fairly often. In his latest article for Forbes, NTT Research President and CEO, Kazuhiro Gomi, points to three counter examples of cybersecurity actually tightening: 1) a breakthrough in “indistinguishability

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Cryptography Paper Puts iO on Terra Firma

By NTT Research CIS Lab In cryptography, well-founded assumptions are generally preferable to clever or especially hard ones. This may sound counter-intuitive, but the weaker and more well-founded the assumption, the more believable the outcome.  In that light, one popular cryptographic concept, indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), found itself in trouble. According to the authors of a

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Marching Toward More Efficient Proof Systems: A Chat with Justin Holmgren

By NTT Research Staff Dr. Justin Holmgren joined NTT Research as a scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab in May 2020. He was previously a Google Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. He studied mathematics

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NTT Research, UCLA and University of Washington Applaud Cryptographers for Indistinguishability Obfuscation Breakthrough

Paper Solves 20-Year-Old Problem, Sets Theoretical Foundation for Stronger Cryptography Palo Alto, Calif. – September 30, 2020 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), along with UCLA and the University of Washington, today announced that a paper co-authored by cryptographers affiliated with their respective institutions has solved a two-decade-old problem involving indistinguishability obfuscation,

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NTT Research and Stanford Join Forces on Cryptography and Blockchain Research

By NTT Research staff NTT Research is working with institutions all over the world, but even as virtual encounters have become the norm, proximity still has value. Thus, we were pleased to reach a joint research agreement with Stanford University, one of our neighbors here in Silicon Valley. Over the next four years, which we

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NTT Research Collaboration Advances Cryptography and Blockchain Research

NTT Research CIS Lab Focused on Information Security Announces Joint Research Agreement Palo Alto, Calif. – August 31, 2020 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that its Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab has reached a joint research agreement with Stanford University. The four-year agreement with Stanford covers basic and fundamental research topics of

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NTT Wins Two Best Paper Awards at Flagship Conference Crypto 2020

Research in the two papers Focuses on Differential Linear and Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Palo Alto, Calif. – August 19, 2020 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that two of the three Best Paper award winners at Crypto 2020, one of the leading international conferences on cryptologic research, were co-authored by NTT cryptographers. Dr. Yosuke

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Shin’ichiro Matsuo on Blockchain and its Potential Sustainability

Dr. Shin’ichiro Matsuo has been engaged in research on cryptography and related protocols for more than 23 years. He is currently the head of blockchain research in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab here at NTT Research, and serves as a research professor at Georgetown University, where he is a director of the CyberSMART

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NTT Research Distinguished Scientist Brent Waters & UCLA Professor Amit Sahai Win IACR Test-of-Time Award

Paper Co-Authored in 2005 Introduced Groundbreaking Concept of Attribute-Based Encryption NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that a paper co-authored in 2005 by Dr. Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in its Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab, has won an International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) Test-of-Time Award. Dr. Waters and

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NTT Research to Collaborate with UCLA and Georgetown on Cryptography and Blockchain

NTT Research CIS Lab Focused on Information Security Announces Two Joint Research Agreements Palo Alto, Calif. – February 25, 2020 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that its Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab has reached joint research agreements with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Georgetown University. The five-year agreement

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