ANNOUNCE 6/20 Xerox PARC -- Life in an Era of Cryptographic Abundance

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

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From:   Tom Berson [SMTP:berson () parc xerox com]
Sent:   Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:15 PM
To:     security-seminar () lists stanford edu
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

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LIFE IN AN ERA OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ABUNDANCE

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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

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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.

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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)

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