I know this is short notice but thought list members might find this
of interest:
ACCU is proud to announce its 2010 Security Conference at Bletchley Park
6 Nov 2010
All the proceeds from this conference will be shared equally between the
Bletchley Park Trust and The National Museum of Computing to help with
the upkeep of the Bletchley Park site, and to support the Museum.
Each year ACCU organises a one day conference on security to raise money
for the Bletchley Park Trust, the body which runs Bletchley Park, the
World War II UK cryptography centre where the legendary German 'Enigma'
code was first cracked, and for The National Museum of Computing, also
housed at Bletchley Park.
The four speakers at this year's conference have now been confirmed, and
they are
Bruce Schneier, Whitfield Diffie, Andy Clark and David Khan, all well
known figures to those in the programming and security industries.
Bruce Schneieris one of the few people in the security industry whose
name is familiar to those outside. A cryptographer and computer security
specialist, he is the author of 'Applied Cryptography' one of the
standard texts used by progammers working to secure the programs they
build. He writes a regular, popular, newsletter, 'Crypto-Gram,' which
not only explains the issues in layman's terms, but also alerts readers
to new and ongoing security problems. He is currently the founder and
chief technology officer of BT Counterpane. His personal web site is
http://www.schneier.com/.
Whitfield Diffieis a Cryptographer and a pioneer of public-key
cryptography. Together with Martin Hellman he developed the widely used
Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, which allows cryptograghic keys to
be exchanged safely - one of the fundamental problems of cryptography.
He was, until recently, Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems, and
is currently Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography at
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). We were
unable to locate a personal web site for Whitfield Diffie - perhaps we
shouldn't be surprised!
Andy Clarkis an internationally recognised expert on information
security and cryptography. He has worked in the field for 25 years and
is currently Head of Forensics at Detica. He is a Past President and now
a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and
a Director and Trustee of The National Museum of Computing.
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**David Kahn* is an American historian of intelligence. His best known
books are The Codebreakers, the first serious history of cryptology, and
Seizing the Enigma, the story of how the Royal Navy stole documents from
German weather ships to enable Bletchley Park to read naval Enigma.
Last year's speakers were Dr Tony Sale, leader of the team that
reconstructed the original code-cracking Colossus machine, Phil
Zimmermann of Pretty Good Privacy fame, and author Simon Singh.
All the proceeds from this conference will go to the Bletchley Park
Trust and the National Museum of Computing to help with the upkeep of
the Bletchley Park site, and to help defray the costs of the Museum.
For more information, Tel: +44 (0)1608 659900 Email:
[email protected]
**Register here:
http://www.regonline.co.uk/register/checkin.aspx?eventid=890253
Cost per person: £100
