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NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research (nsf.gov)

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-paid dept.

aarondubrow writes: The National Science Foundation announced $74.5 million in grants for basic research in cybersecurity. Among the awards are projects to understand and offer reliability to cryptocurrencies; invent technologies to broadly scan large swaths of the Internet and automate the detection and patching of vulnerabilities; and establish the science of censorship resistance by developing accurate models of the capabilities of censors. According to NSF, long-term support for fundamental cybersecurity research has resulted in public key encryption, software security bug detection, spam filtering and more.

9 comments

  1. "broadly scan large swaths of the internet" by vikingpower · · Score: 2

    Harmless, bro. Absolutely harmless. What could go fucking wrong ?

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    1. Re:"broadly scan large swaths of the internet" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      wait, so they just granted a few million for someone to reinvent nmap?

  2. Should go reverse by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

    Awards for cracking large parts of the internet . Awards for destabilizing a concurrency hence providing proof of concept.

  3. (nsfw.gov) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    haha cool domain name

  4. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The .gov hates all these things. Why would they fund it?

  5. NSF/NSA same same by Virtucon · · Score: 2

    Once you understand how to make it more "secure" you know where the holes are to break into it.

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    1. Re:NSF/NSA same same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rrrriiiiigggggghhhhhhtttttttt...... This is like listening to the NSA say 'budget us a billion dollars, and we'll find out how to make cybertech more secure against the kinds of attackers that have billion dollar budgets"

      Mmm K.

  6. Some basic research in cybersecurity .. by nickweller · · Score: 1

    Design a MMU so that one process cannot walk all over the memory belonging to another process. Design a MMU where read-only, data and executable really mean: read-only, data and executable.

  7. security but not all by marcelolynx · · Score: 1

    when big enterprise talk about security, i remember the NSA case, because the limite bettwen entry know rules for security is attack for security is small, more or less this.