Safeguarding the Internet and Defending Civil Rights

BU Today highlights Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Fellow and CAS Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who explains how information makes its way around the internet, securely and insecurely. Goldberg partners with Leonid Reyzin, a CAS Professor of Computer Science, and director of RISCS at the Hariri Institute, to address how a flaw in one proposed solution to routing insecurity—the Resource Public Key Infrastructure—would challenge the fundamental openness of the internet. [Read more.]