Galois helped demonstrate security vulnerabilities in modern automobiles and small UAVs as part of a “60 Minutes” profile of DARPA. We also demonstrated our secure UAV autopilot technology as an alternative to the currently available software systems that are prone to remote takeovers and other security vulnerabilities. Watch the quadcopter demo below: The world’s most […]

We’re pleased to announce the open source release of FreeRTOS for Xen on ARM systems. This release is part of our research efforts in mobile security, cyber-physical systems, and security. The FreeRTOS port is one of our most recent projects in the Xen community, which include the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HalVM) and our MAC-enhanced […]

Following up on our recent post, Block Ciphers, Homomorphically, we have some new results. In our previous post, we reported on two experiments: a single block-at-a-time evaluation of SIMON 64/128 computed with the HElib homomorphic encryption library, and a parallel, 1800 block-at-a-time evaluation of the same cipher. Our results on the latter have not changed: 1800 […]

by Eric Seidel, Galois intern Embedded DSLs are a bit of a double-edged sword. They have a low start-up cost because you can defer a lot of work to the host language, but producing good error messages can be challenging. People often talk about the quality of type errors produced by the host language, but […]

by Brent Carmer and David W. Archer, PhD Our team at Galois, Inc. is interested in making secure computation practical. Much of our secure computation work has focused on linear secret sharing (LSS, a form of multi-party computation) and the platform we’ve built on that technology. However, we’ve also done a fair bit of comparison […]

A whitepaper providing a technical summary of our PDF voting hack is now available: Modifying an Off-the-Shelf Wireless Router for PDF Ballot Tampering If you missed it, you can find our bird’s eye view breakdown of the process here: http://galois.com/blog/2014/11/hacking-internet-voting-via-ballot-tampering/  

Dan Zimmerman and Joe Kiniry Election Day was this week.  If you took advantage of early voting, or you live overseas, you probably used a paper ballot you received in the mail a few weeks ago.  A digital alternative, being considered across the USA, is voting-by-email. To vote using email (Fig. 1), you download and […]

During the first week of October, Galois held “Innovation Week,” a time for everybody to explore new ideas, recharge our creativity, have fun and share what we’ve learned and done with each other. Throughout the week, Galwegians worked on a diverse set of side projects: running experiments, building prototypes, solving puzzles and acquiring new skills.

Over the last few months, Galois has published or spoken about a variety of technologies based on the open source Xen hypervisor: our port of FreeRTOS on Xen, our MAC-enhanced version of the XenStore, and, of course, our continuing work on the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (a.k.a., the HaLVM). Based on all this activity, I […]

In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Joe Kiniry, Galois’ digital voting systems cyber-security expert, weighs in on the narrowly missed catastrophe of a hacked election in last month’s Ukranian presidential election. To learn more, read the article.