The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,438 project grant to Northeastern University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Northeastern University will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $286,991 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The 21-month grant, starting on October 1, 2024, supports research to develop new theoretical frameworks, analyses, and techniques for distributed computing and machine learning. The key objectives are to: (i) accelerate computation time by overcoming system bottlenecks, (ii) ensure accurate computation...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,999 project grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FROM DISTRIBUTED CRYPTOGRAPHY TO BLOCKCHAIN AND BACK." The award period is from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2025. The project supports investigator-initiated research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). This program aims to advance...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research on theoretical foundations of block ciphers from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2026. The award will fund research to narrow the gap between provable security and cryptanalysis of block ciphers such as the Advanced...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to Northeastern University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: MAKING CRYPTO TOO BIG TO BREAK." The grant was awarded on June 15, 2021 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the funding will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $193,399 to New York University to conduct research on improving the foundations of computational intractability needed for robust cryptography. The project aims to explore novel resource-constrained adversarial models to strengthen cryptographic security and plant security on a firmer footing. Key goals include improving cryptographic hardness...
This $786,661 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of novel techniques and systems to identify vulnerabilities and detect malicious attacks in Web3 applications and blockchain-based financial services. The project, titled "SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: BEDROCK: SECURITY FOR SMART CONTRACTS," will introduce a multi-layer framework called BEDROCK to analyze...
This $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the University of Washington from June 2022 through May 2026 to advance theoretical foundations of block ciphers. The research aims to narrow the gap between provable security and cryptanalysis by developing security proofs against limited classes of statistical and algebraic attacks. It will also study important but under-researched components...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $174,927 to the San Diego State University Research Foundation will fund research to address challenges in the Ethereum peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The effort will develop methods to systematically detect incompatible communication protocols and inconsistent behaviors across Ethereum clients, as well as design a new approach to preserve node...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $349,203 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to conduct research on developing new cryptographic assumptions and techniques. The key focus areas include: (a) exploring the hardness of new cryptographic assumptions, (b) designing new methods to leverage these assumptions for efficient encrypted computation like multi-party computation and...