Security, privacy, and cryptography
Publication
Securing AI Agents with Information-Flow Control
Microsoft Research Blog
FrodoKEM: A conservative quantum-safe cryptographic algorithm
The recent advances in quantum computing offer many advantages—but also challenge current cryptographic strategies. Learn how FrodoKEM could help strengthen security, even in a future with powerful quantum computers.
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.
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…
Video
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…
Video
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…
