How Federal Funding for Public-Key Cryptography Protects Your Digital Life

Today’s everyday purchases, next-day deliveries, and online health records are safe and secure thanks to a monumental innovation in security — public-key cryptography — made almost 50 years ago by Stanford scientists with the help of federal funding. Khoury researchers are working to push the boundaries even further, exploring whether we can browse the internet, chat with AI, and navigate online without revealing private information to anyone — even search engines.