The CIS Group is part of the Theory of Computation Group of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Professors Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Ron Rivest founded this group in Fall 1995.

For a great collection of related information, check out Ron Rivest's collection of links on Cryptography and Security!

If you are a member of the CIS group, and have some software that falls under the US export laws that you would like to publish on the Web, read this page. It describes the Domestic Web Server, which can limit the distribution of export-controlled software to those users who represent themselves as eligible to receive it. The author of the dws believes this due diligence is sufficient to satisfy current US export laws.

Here is an incomplete list of CIS Group meetings:

CIS Group's Mission Statement:

The CIS group seeks to develop techniques for securing tomorrow's global information infrastructure by exploring theoretical foundations, near-term practical applications, and long-range speculative research.

We aim to understand the theoretical power of cryptography and the practical engineering of secure information systems, from appropriate definitions and proofs of security, through cryptographic algorithm and protocol design, to implementations of real applications with easy-to-use security features.

We are also interested in the relationship of our field to others, such as complexity theory, quantum computing, algorithms, machine learning, and cryptographic policy debates.