Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Brian Snow, Jim Bidzos,Ray Ozzie, Dan Boneh, Steven Levy

October 26, 2006 - Voltage Security, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum and RSA hosted an event to honor the inventions, inventors, historical milestones and the future of Public Key Cryptography (PKC). The event was MC'd by John Markoff, author and senior writer at the New York Times and the panel was moderated by Steven Levy, author and senior editor of Newsweek.

Panelists

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp’s Chief Software Architect

Dan Boneh, PhD, Cryptographer, and Stanford Professor of Computer Science and co-founder of Voltage Security

Whitfield Diffie, PhD, Cryptographer, Chief Security Officer, Sun Microsystems

Martin Hellman, PhD, Cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford

Brian Snow, NSA Technical Director, Information Assurance Directorate (Retired)

Jim Bidzos, Former CEO of RSA and Founder of VeriSign

Honorable Mention:
Public Key Encryption and GCHQ

Organizing Commitee

Burt Kaliski, Chief Scientist, RSA Labs

Dan Boneh, Stanford Professor of Computer Science

Steven Levy, Author and senior editor of Newsweek

Tom Berson, president of Anagram Labs

Media Coverage

ZDNet: Cryptos gather for 30th anniversary of public-key cryptography

ZDNet: At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say

C|net: Crypto gurus mark 30th anniversary

Infoworld: Public key cryptography celebrates anniversary

PC Magazine: Cryptologists Celebrate Tech's 30th Birthday

Findlaw: 30 Years of Public-Key Cryptography

 

 

View photos from the PKC celebration

Pictures from the event are available here.

Watch the video of the 30 Years of PKC Panel

View the Quicktime 7 streaming video here.

Listen to the last 30 Years of PKC podcast

mp3 audio available here.

30 Years of Public Key Cryptography Podcast featuring Ray Ozzie, Dan Boneh, Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Brian Snow, Jim Bidzos, Steven Levy, John Markoff

iTunes users click here for 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography Podcast featuring Ray Ozzie, Dan Boneh, Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Brian Snow, Jim Bidzos, Steven Levy, John Markoff

Excerpts from the panel:

A short history of PKC (audio, presentation)

Q&A - why traditional encryption products have low adoption ? (audio)

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If the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it. Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government. From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology," his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil.

 

Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It’s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ’70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap’n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.

 

 

 

 

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