Matt Green, assistant professor of computer science, was one of the report authors.
“The ‘Keys Under Doormats’ report has been central to grounding the current encryption debates in scientific realities,” said the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the award announcement. “The authors of the report are all security experts, building the case that weakening encryption for surveillance purposes could never allow for any truly secure digital transactions.”
Matt Green
“Keys Under Doormats” both reviews the underlying technical considerations of the earlier encryption debate of the 1990s and examines the modern systems realities, creating a compelling, comprehensive, and scientifically grounded argument to protect and extend the availability of encrypted digital information and communications.
Security experts and researchers from MIT, Stanford University, Columbia University, Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins University, Microsoft Research, SRI International, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute contributed to the report.
View the full list of 2016 Pioneer Award winners here.
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