Ed Felten
@EdFelten
Co-founder @OffchainLabs. Member @PCLOB_GOV. Professor of Comp Sci & Public Affairs Emeritus @Princeton. Prev: Deputy US CTO at White House. Personal account.
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https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten 04-05-2008 17:54:40
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Technology developed at @princeton is in use by @apple to make iMessages more secure. Congrats Mike Freedman, Ed Felten, Marcela Melara, PhD, Aaron Blankstein & Joseph Bonneau. Great to see our research harnessed to benefit society. Princeton UniversityCS Princeton UniversityCITP
TIL that Apple iMessage uses our Key Transparency work to ensure user security and privacy: E2E encryption on by default with users confident in others' identities.
Unexpected academic impact can be amazing. CONIKS published USENIX Association Security 2015.
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Iβve raised the alarm bells about the dangers of L2s being marketed as such without fraud proofs or any meaningful L1 derived security for a very long time.
The response I generally got was βtheyβre good people. We can trust them to eventually build fraud proofs and not rug inβ¦
This keeps coming up in panels/classrooms/conversation - people mischaracterize FBI v Apple case. FBI did *not* ask Apple to unlock SanBernardino phone. They wanted Apple to create a tool that would undermine iPhone security so they could unlock ANY iPhone wired.com/2016/02/applesβ¦
Just recorded an extremely educational and spicy The Delphi Podcast with Steven Goldfeder (π,π§‘,ποΈ,π¦) and Ed Felten
Stay tuned π§
PCLOB is releasing its FISA Section 702 report on Thursday, 9/28. Board Members will deliver remarks at 1 p.m. ET at the Reagan Building's Horizon Ballroom. This event is open to the public. RSVPs to [email protected] are requested but not required.