Distinguished Professor Rosario Gennaro (Computer Science) and Assistant Professor Tushar Jois (Electrical Engineering) will collaborate with colleagues from New York University and Stanford University on a project funded by the National Science Foundation that is designed to overcome the performance limitations of current systems and explore the improved security architecture possible with cryptographic computing. This project will implement the infrastructure needed to enable security researchers to develop new hardware designs that can overcome performance limitations of recent advanced cryptographic schemes that enable unprecedented levels of privacy and security by performing computation on encrypted data. Throughout this project, named Cryptolets, the team will implement the hardware and software needed to accelerate core cryptographic computing functions in hardware, the infrastructure to connect these pieces, and software to validate it.