Navy Beefing Up At-Sea Enterprise Network

National Defense Magazine

From the article: The CAVES program employs automated reasoning to identify central problems in cryptographic designs early in the design phase, he said. “If you’re exploring a wide variety of possible algorithms … you will quickly rule out the ones that might have security issues,” he added. “You get the benefits of higher security and […]

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Achieving memory safety without compromise

Embedded.com

“As embedded software developers, the tools we rely on must provide us with low-level control of the functionality and performance of the systems we build. There must be an ability to manipulate hardware registers to write device drivers, and we must be certain that no runtime system will interrupt our tasks and lead to missed […]

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Building tools to secure computer processors

Government Computer News

Kiniry is leading a team that has just been awarded a $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop tools and methodologies for designing secure CPUs.  The project — Balancing Evaluation of System Security Properties with Industrial Needs (BESSPIN) — will develop security metrics and a framework for making decisions about […]

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Galois Awarded $4.5 Million DARPA Contract To Strengthen Hardware Security

Project award by DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) re-imagines approach to security for design and development of CPUs, smartphone chips, other hardware Galois today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) to develop tools and methodologies that enable provable security for […]

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Navy Awards Galois $2 Million Contract For Cryptographic Security

Open source cryptographic workbench aims to enable cryptographers to more easily meet evolving security needs PORTLAND, Ore., Jan 17, 2018 – Galois today announced that it has been awarded a $2 million contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to build a workbench that aims to ease the design process for cryptographic algorithms. For the […]

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Bill Harris joins Galois as Principal Investigator

We’re thrilled to share that William Harris is joining Galois as Principal Investigator. Dr. Harris was previously an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. His work has focused on program verification and synthesis, and software security. For a complete list of his research and activities, see his personal page at gatech.edu. At Georgia […]

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