A number of Usual Suspects will be speaking at Xerox PARC -----Original Message----- From: Tom Berson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Life in an Era of Cryptographic Abundance -- 6/20/2000 Dear Colleague, You are warmly invited to participate in a symposium to be held at Xerox PARC on 20 June 2000. Details are below. 1. Please forgive us if you receive more than one copy of this invitation. 2. Feel free forward this invitation to people who you feel would be interested. 3. For the latest information see http://www.parc.xerox.com/crypto-symposium. I hope you can participate. Best, --Tom Berson ========================================================================== LIFE IN AN ERA OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ABUNDANCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A symposium organized by the Xerox PARC Computer Science Laboratory FREE and open to the public June 20, 2000, 9 AM - 5 PM PARC Auditorium 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information security technologies are in rapid flux. Cryptosystems are becoming stronger, faster and more widespread. At the same time, operating systems are becoming weaker and more poorly administered. All this is happening against a Moore's-law-driven background of improvements in storage capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, and computational power. Potentially disruptive technologies such as quantum computing and nanotechnology are in the wings. It seems clear to some that by 2010 cryptographic operations of all sorts will be as cheap and as plentiful as dirt, and that they will be as unremarkable then as IP stacks have become today. How will things be different in the coming era of abundant cryptography? How will our children keep a secret? What new businesses will arise? Others believe the promise of cryptographic abundance will be stopped in its tracks by growth in overall complexity or by government intervention. Come join us to explore the scientific, engineering, economic and social issues raised by an era of cryptographic abundance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Paul Kocher (creator of Deep Crack, inventor of power analysis, president of Cryptography Research, Inc.) Kevin McCurley (of IBM Research; president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research) Ralph Merkle (co-inventor of public-key cryptography and one of the top figures in nanotechnology) Andrew Odlyzko (head of the mathematics and cryptography research at AT&T Labs; historian and philosopher of science) Nicko van Someren (co-founder and chief scientist at nCipher, makers of cryptographic acceleration appliances) Roy Want (principal scientist at PARC; expert at wireless devices and embedded computing) Symposium organizer and panel moderator: Tom Berson (principal scientist at PARC) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
