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Computer Security and Cryptography Group


 

The computer security and cryptography group works on discovering, understanding, and countering malicious behavior on or against information technologies. Our work spans a broad range of topics, from low-level software and hardware security, operational security of huge distributed systems, applied and theoretical cryptography, and more.

Faculty Graduate Students
Staff Research Projects

Security Seminar

The security seminar hosts talks from UW and external speakers. The seminar takes place every other Monday at 4 PM. On certain occasions we have special seminar times.

Seminar times and topics are announced on the security research mailing list.

For upcoming events, please see the seminar schedule.

Security Reading Group

The security student reading group meets weekly to discuss papers on various security topics.

Reading group meetings are announced on the security research mailing list.

View previous readings and upcoming topics on the reading group schedule page.

Alumni

Daniel Tomko - Masters 2001
Hong Lin
Shai Rubin - Ph.D 2006
Jonathan Giffin - Ph.D 2006  (GeorgiaTech)
Hao Wang - Ph.D 2006
Vinod Ganapathy - Ph.D 2007
Mihai Christodorescu - Ph.D 2007  (IBM Research)
Gogul Balakrishnan - Ph.D 2007
Nick Coleman - Ph.D 2007
Lorenzo Martignoni
Randy Smith - Ph.D 2009

Relevant Professional Organizations and Conferences