Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs
Computers broadcast their secrets via inadvertent physical emanations that are easily measured and exploited.
Security and Privacy
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40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
As my tenure as ACM president ends, I find myself reflecting on the past two years.
There is a rhythm in the affairs of the Association for Computing Machinery and June marks our annual celebration of award recipients and the biennial election of new officers.
The Solution to AI, What Real Researchers Do, and Expectations For CS Classrooms
John Langford on AlphaGo, Bertrand Meyer on Research as Research, and Mark Guzdial on correlating CS classes with laboratory results.
Making innovations happen is surprisingly easy, satisfying, and rewarding if you start small and build up.
The Risks of Self-Auditing Systems
Unforeseen problems can result from the absence of impartial independent evaluations.
Nine Things I Didn’t Know I Would Learn Being an Engineer Manager
Many of the skills aren't technical at all.
Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants
Farsighted physicists of yore were danged smart!
Q&A: Finding New Directions in Cryptography
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on their meeting, their research, and the results that billions use every day.
Why All Writs Is a Trojan Horse
Citing the All Writs act as a way to give the government the power to compel companies to redesign or reimplement their electronic products to government specifications represents a threat to everyone's civil liberties.
Bringing Computer Science to U.S. Schools, State By State
Mark Guzdial considers the crucial role of states in Computer Science for All.
Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.
The Challenges of Partially Automated Driving
Car automation promises to free our hands from the steering wheel but might demand more from our minds.
Hiding Secrets in Software: A Cryptographic Approach to Program Obfuscation
Can we hide secrets in software? Can we make programs unintelligible while preserving their functionality? Why would we even want to do this? In this article, we describe some rigorous cryptographic answers to these quasi-philosophical questions.
Technical Perspective: A Breakthrough in Software Obfuscation
In "Hiding Secrets in Software," Garg et al. construct a "one-way compiler" of the type envisioned by Diffie and Hellman.
Future Tense: Becoming a Multi-Planet Species
Imagine hyper-realistic virtual space exploration limited only by the data we are able to collect.
Beyond Blocks: Syntax and Semantics
How the future of general-purpose programming tools could include blocks-based structured editing, and how we should study students transitioning to text-based programming tools.
How to Increase the Security of Smart Buildings?
Surveying unresolved security problems for automated buildings.
Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.
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