Thursday, January 17, 2019
Minority and dissident communities in countries ruled by authoritarian governments face a perplexing challenge: they need to remain anonymous to avoid persecution, but also must establish a trustworthy identity that extends across all of their communications. An interdisciplinary group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has designed an application to meet both of these requirements.
![Computer science professor Elizabeth Belding](https://engineering.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_left/public/images/news/elizabeth_belding_news.jpg?itok=3uS65X2L)
Computer science professor Elizabeth Belding