Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see this paper, because while I don’t agree with every one of its conclusions, it’s a good first stab at an incredibly important set of questions. … Continue reading Let’s talk…
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17 Jan 2025
21 Mar 2016
Today’s Washington Post has a story entitled “Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption“, which describes the results of some research my students and I have been working on over the past few months. As you might have guessed from the headline, the work concerns Apple, and specifically Apple’s iMessage text messaging protocol. … Continue reading Attack of…
9 Sept 2015
Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story entitled “Apple and other tech companies tangle with U.S. over data access“. It’s a vague headline that manages to obscure the real thrust of the story, which is that according to reporters at the Times, Apple has not been forced to backdoor their popular encrypted iMessage system. This flies in … Continue reading…
26 Jun 2013
About a year ago I wrote a short post urging Apple to publish the technical details of iMessage encryption. I’d love tell you that Apple saw my influential crypto blogging and fell all over themselves to produce a spec, but, no. iMessage is the same black box it’s always been. What’s changed is that suddenly people seem to … Continue…