The Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) group was founded by Professors Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Ron Rivest  in Fall 1995.

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

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