{"id":356,"date":"2005-06-10T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/06\/10\/lightweight-encryption-for-email\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:21:00","slug":"lightweight-encryption-for-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/06\/10\/lightweight-encryption-for-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightweight Encryption for Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a252'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a month, I&#8217;ll be presenting at Usenix&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usenix.org\/events\/sruti05\/\">Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet workshop<\/a>. The paper is &#8220;Lightweight Encryption for Email&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/ben.adida.net\/research\/lightweight-encryption-for-email.pdf\">PDF<\/a>), and my co-authors are <a href=\"http:\/\/crypto.csail.mit.edu\/~srhohen\">Susan Hohenberger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crypto.csail.mit.edu\/~rivest\">Ronald L. Rivest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a high-level, we&#8217;ve designed (and prototyped) a mechanism for doing public-key signatures and encryption in the context of email, using only existing architecture and, most importantly, without deploying a public-key infrastructure that the user needs to know about. We think our approach will be quite useful in fighthing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phishing\">phishing attacks<\/a>. The other papers regarding the phishing-specific components of our approach are still in submission. I&#8217;ll link to them when they&#8217;re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a month, I&#8217;ll be presenting at Usenix&#8217;s Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet workshop. The paper is &#8220;Lightweight Encryption for Email&#8221; (PDF), and my co-authors are Susan Hohenberger and Ronald L. Rivest. At a high-level, we&#8217;ve designed (and prototyped) a mechanism for doing public-key signatures and encryption in the context of email, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}