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November 2, 2026

Using Arborism to Break the Confidentiality of Microsoft SQL Server's Always Encrypted (and Other TEE-Based Encrypted DBs)

Embedded index metadata in Microsoft SQL Server's Always Encrypted (and many other enclave-based databases) reveals the plaintext histogram of encrypted data, allowing for strong plaintext recovery attacks

December 14, 2020

Doing a Concurrent Degree

My course plan and experience completing Brown's concurrent Sc.B. and Sc.M. in computer science

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