Security, privacy, and cryptography
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
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Open-Source Consent Package
A collection of packages for building consent management systems with audit trails, granular permissions, and flexible storage backends. Designed for transparency, compliance with privacy regulations, and easy integration into existing applications.
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of April 21, 2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein…
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Towards Safer Augmented Reality: Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Security & Privacy Threats
Augmented-reality (AR) technologies merge virtual content with users’ perceptions of the real-world environment. These technologies revolutionize how humans interact with the surrounding world, and enhance machine understanding of human behavior and physical spaces. As AR…
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Hamming Quasi-Cyclic
In this talk, I will present the HQC scheme, which was recently selected by NIST as the second KEM protocol to be standardized within the Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization effort. HQC is a code-based scheme, using…
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How to Compress Garbled Circuit Input Labels, Efficiently
Garbled circuit is a foundational primitive in both theory and practice of cryptography. Given (\hat{C}, K[x]), where \hat{C} is the garbling of a circuit C and K[x] = {K[i, x_i]} are the input labels for…
