Grant: Canada Research Chairs
University of Waterloo
$200,000.00
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
FY 2024-25
Summary
Billions of people worldwide use the Internet for all manner of transactions, but it was never designed with security or privacy in mind. Therefore much Internet communication and metadata (such as identities) are unnecessarily exposed not only to third parties, but also to the communicating parties themselves.
The most popular metadata-protecting privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) today support millions of daily users, but have fundamental design shortcomings that prevent them from significantly growing. This research program will close this gap by constructing innovative PETs that can be used by far more people than currently possible, to protect communication contents and metadata.
Program
Canada Research Chairs
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
CRC-2018-00135
Name nom
Goldberg, Ian
Department département
Cheriton School of Computer Science - University of Waterloo
Organization id
33
Institution établissement
University of Waterloo
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2024
Competition year année de concours
2018
Award amount
200000
Program id
CRC
Program name en
Canada Research Chairs
Program name fr
Chaires de recherche du Canada
Group en
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
Group fr
RECHERCHE AXÉE SUR LA DÉCOUVERTE
Committee code
9998
Committee name en
Canada Research Chair Selection Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des Chaires de recherche du Canada
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
9999
Research subject group en
Not available
Research subject group fr
Non disponible
Research subject en
Not available
Research subject fr
Non disponible
Field of research list names en
Not available
Field of research list names fr
Non disponible
Socioeconomic objective list names en
Not available
Socioeconomic objective list names fr
Non disponible
Application title
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Keywords
privacy enhancing technologies; computer security; applied cryptography
Application summary
Billions of people worldwide use the Internet for all manner of transactions, but it was never designed with security or privacy in mind. Therefore much Internet communication and metadata (such as identities) are unnecessarily exposed not only to third parties, but also to the communicating parties themselves.
The most popular metadata-protecting privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) today support millions of daily users, but have fundamental design shortcomings that prevent them from significantly growing. This research program will close this gap by constructing innovative PETs that can be used by far more people than currently possible, to protect communication contents and metadata.
