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The most important cryptography papers spanning the past, present, and future of cryptosystems & cryptology.

Update (April 19): Apparently a bug has been found, and the author has withdrawn the claim (see the comments). For those who don't yet know from their other social media: a week ago the cryptographer Yilei Chen posted a preprint, eprint.iacr.org/2024/555, claiming to give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm to solve lattice problems. For example, it…

MIT Professor Emeritus Frederick R. Hennie III died on Oct. 23 at 90 years old. A longtime executive officer for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Hennie's facility for programming languages and databases and his careful approach to highly complex systems made him a valued co-worker and advisor to multiple department heads.

In an insightful interview with HT digital, Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme, VSEs Executive Vice Dean, provided valuable insights into various aspects of the school.

We take a look back at the making of one of the best, and most under-seen movies of the 90s, Sneakers.

With PreVeil, you get free end-to-end encrypted secure cloud storage along with secure email that’s tough enough for business but extremely easy to use, all while keeping your existing email address.

Instructor:  Teaching Fellow: Gal Koplewitz, galkop@gmail.com. Office hours: Thursdays 3-4, Maxwell Dworkin second floor lounge. This course examines papers every computer scientist should have read, from the 1930s to the present. It is meant to be a synthesizing experience for advanced students in computer science: a way for them to see the field as a whole, not through a survey, but by reliving the experience of its creation. The idea is to create a unified view of the field of computer s...