Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium

4:15PM, Wednesday, February 4, 1998
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

Untitled 1998

Whitfield Diffie, Dr. techn. sci. (hc)
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems

About the Talk:

An examination of the surrealistic interplay between communications, computing, intelligence, privacy, censorship, and intellectual property, asks whether we are headed for a second enlightenment or a new dark age of information feudalism.

About the speaker:

Whitfield Diffie, who brought the concept of public key cryptography to the world in the mid 1970s and has followed the subject from obscure technicality to political football, is the author of Privacy on the Line: The politics of Wiretapping and Encryption

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