Timing attacks have been used successfully against a variety of popular encryption techniques, but they can be prevented with consistent use of constant-time code practice. Cryptography provides privacy for millions of people, whether by ensuring end-to-end encrypted messaging, securing more than ninety percent of the web behind HTTPS, or establishing trust behind the digital signatures […]

Exclusivity of resources is becoming obsolete. The Elastic Secure Infrastructure Project (ESI) provides a solution for sharing computing resources and getting the most from hardware investments. Using resources efficiently is an important goal for any organization. If those resources are computers, then theoretically that goal should be easily achievable, because machines don’t get tired and […]

Is there a way to gain the performance benefits of a unikernel without severing it from an existing general-purpose code base? Boston University professors, BU PhD students, and Red Hat engineers at the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University are getting close to finding the answer. A unikernel is a single bootable image consisting of […]

Machine learning has been driving research breakthroughs in many fields. Now there is an open source curriculum designed to help non-specialists build the skills they need to use it. Machine learning is an increasingly important competency in a growing number of fields. Biochemists are using it to create models for protein engineering. Economists are using […]