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Ran Canetti

Professor College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University

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    Ran Canetti is a professor of Computer Science at Boston University and the director of the center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security. He is also a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Cryptology and Information and Computation. Canetti graduated from the Weizmann Institute of Science, was a researcher at IBM Watson Research Center, a research scientist at MIT and a professor at Tel Aviv University. Canetti’s research interests span multiple aspects of cryptography and information security, with emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols.

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    Yes, Terrorists Use Encryption But That Doesn’t Mean It’s A Bad Thing

    November 17, 2015

    Think Progress Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences News spread at a viral pace following the deadly Paris attacks Friday around speculation that Islamic State (ISIS) members used a PlayStation 4 (PS4) to send encrypted messages to one another and coordinate the attacks, causing pundits and reporters to raise concerns about whether governments should […]

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    Ran Canetti, Modular Approach to Cybersecurity, Boston University

    August 26, 2014

    Federal News Radio Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences, Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cybersecurity Boston University researchers think they’ve found a new way to build a cybersecurity system… Listen to audio of expert Ran Canetti

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    Expanding the breadth and impact of cybersecurity and privacy research

    July 31, 2014

    PhysOrg Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences As our lives and businesses become ever more intertwined with the Internet and networked technologies, it is crucial to continue to develop and improve cybersecurity measures to keep our data, devices and critical systems safe, secure, private and accessible… Expert quote: “Our goal is to build a […]

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    Security Experts: Colleges Targeted For Future Cyber Attacks

    February 13, 2014

    WGBH News “On-Campus Blog” Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences First there was Target. Then high-end retailer Neiman Marcus. Now, security experts say future cyber attacks are likely to come through college and university networks — networks that tend to have big, broad Internet pipes, with less protection… Expert quote: “The first attack that took […]

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    CloudFlare goes hunting for better server encryption with Red October

    December 18, 2013

    TechTarget Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences Though enterprises have never been more aware of the insider threat than since Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks, a newly open-sourced application may provide a simple method for securing enterprise data stored on corporate servers against rogue insiders… Expert quote: “I’d be wary about using it […]

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    Detecting program-tampering in the cloud

    September 11, 2013

    MIT News Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences For small and midsize organizations, the outsourcing of demanding computational tasks to the cloud — huge banks of computers accessible over the Internet — can be much more cost-effective than buying their own hardware… Expert quote: “I think it’s a breakthrough. Nobody ever thought that this […]

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    Securing the cloud: New algorithm solves major problem with homomorphic encryption

    June 10, 2013

    PhysOrg Ran Canetti, College of Arts & Sciences Homomorphic encryption is one of the most exciting new research topics in cryptography, which promises to make cloud computing perfectly secure… Expert quote: “It’s an extremely surprising result. I myself worked on this problem for a while, and I had no idea how to do it. So […]

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