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Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
June 2023
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Technical Perspective: What Does Provable Security Mean for Cryptographic Schemes?
For a given cryptographic scheme, as perfect security is almost never achievable, one requires a computational assumption. Computational assumptions are some well-defined problems that are widely accepted as difficult.
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On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP
We reveal that in the interoperable world of OpenPGP, unforeseen cross-configuration attacks become possible.
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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the power of ACID transactions.
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.