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Dr. Saxena’s Primer on Secure Communications in News Media

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Jimmy Dani

Secure communications and end-to-encryption is all over the news in light of the recent use of this technology underlying national security matters by the US government. The SPIES lab has been doing extensive work in this area and leading the nation on this forefront. Dr. Saxena recently gave a video interview to the Associated Press Spotlight breaking down end-to-end encryption in simple terms. The devil is in details, as he said, so for more info check out our research or reach to Dr. Saxena.

What is ‘classified’ information? What are ‘secure’ communications? Here’s a primer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar 31, 2025

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Recent News

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  • Paper accepted to IEEE Internet Computing February 22, 2026
  • Dr. Saxena drives a new MS Cybersecurity degree at Texas A&M (anticipated to launch Fall 2026) February 7, 2026
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2025 January 13, 2026
  • Paper accepted to EACL 2026 January 5, 2026
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2026 December 17, 2025
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  • Paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL October 25, 2025
  • TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award! October 20, 2025
  • 6 out of 7 PhD graduates in past 4 years are in faculty positions October 4, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena joins the Editorial Board of ACM AILET September 29, 2025
  • Paper accepted to eCrime 2025 September 9, 2025
  • Paper accepted to IEEE S&P (Magazine) August 24, 2025
  • Another recent SPIES graduate to take up faculty position August 21, 2025
  • Paper accepted to CSCML 2025 August 13, 2025
  • SPIES graduate to start as Assistant Professor July 22, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025 July 2, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ICME 2025 June 24, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work in the News June 23, 2025

Contact Info

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435 Nagle Street

College Station, Tx 77843-3112
email: nsaxena[at]tamu.edu (best way to reach me)

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  • SPIES Lab PhD Student Wins Graduate Research Excellence Award 2026
  • Paper accepted to IEEE Internet Computing
  • Dr. Saxena drives a new MS Cybersecurity degree at Texas A&M (anticipated to launch Fall 2026)
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2026
  • Paper accepted to EACL 2026
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2026
  • SPIES Lab Research Cited in News Coverage on AI Security Breach
  • SPIES Lab Research Featured in TAMU College of Engineering Spotlight
  • Paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  • TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award!

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