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Research For Practice: Private Online Communication; Highlights in Systems Verification

By Albert Kwon, James R. Wilcox, Peter Bailis
Communications of the ACM, February 2018, Vol. 61 No. 2, Pages 46-49
10.1145/3132271
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This installment of Research for Practice covers two exciting topics in modern computer systems: private communication systems, and verified systems programming.

First, Albert Kwon provides an overview of recent systems for secure and private communication. While messaging protocols such as Signal provide privacy guarantees, Albert's selected research papers illustrate what is possible at the cutting edge: more transparent endpoint authentication, better protection of communication metadata, and anonymous broadcasting. These papers marry state-of-the-art cryptography with practical, privacy-preserving protocols, providing a glimpse of what we might expect from tomorrow's secure messaging systems.

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