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.

Here is the CIS group's mission statement.

CIS Group links:

• CIS people
• CIS research projects
• CIS publications (partial list)
• Theses
• CIS seminars (both upcoming and past)
• A set of web pages maintained for DARPA, who sponsors much of the research in this group.

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.