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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

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Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). But it took massive processing power to make Gentry’s crude prototype work.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

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Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code. Conficker , or Downadup, is a fast-propagating malware discovered in November 2008. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated. Trojan horse.