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[boston] FW: PRIVACY ON THE LINE: A Forum 4/7 7 PM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Tue Apr 7 15:19:38 1998
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
To: "'cryptography@c2.net'" <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:21:35 -0400
Sorry, this is kind of last minute - pt
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> From: jeremy grainger [SMTP:jeremias@mit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 6:21 PM
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> Subject: PRIVACY ON THE LINE: A Forum 4/7 7 PM
>
> PRIVACY ON THE LINE
> The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
>
> A forum sponsored by authors@mit and MIT Technology & Culture Forum.
>
> Tuesday April 7 at *7 PM* (please note later than usual time)
> Wong Auditorium
> Tang Center for Management, MIT
> corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Street, Cambridge (near the Kendall
> Square T)
>
> Speakers:
>
> Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, authors of The MIT Press book,
> _Privacy
> on the Line_
>
> Ronald Rivest, Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer
> Science
>
> Charles Barry Smith, Digital Telephony and Encryption Program, FBI
>
> moderated by Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science, MIT
>
> Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War
> culture of
> wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take
> our
> privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on
> telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of all
> kinds. So
> many of our relationships now use telecommunication as the primary
> mode of
> communication that the security of these transactions has become a
> source
> of wide public concern and debate. Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
> argue
> that if we are to retain the privacy that characterized face-to-face
> relationships in the past, we must build the means of protecting that
> privacy into our communication systems.
>
> This has not proved simple, however. The development of such
> protection has
> been delayed--and may be prevented--by powerful elements of society
> that
> intercept communications in the name of protecting public safety.
> Intelligence and law-enforcement agencies see the availability of
> strong
> cryptography as a threat to their functions.
>
> The U.S. government has used export control to limit the availability
> of
> cryptography within the United States, and bills introduced in
> Congress in
> 1997 would place legal restrictions on essential elements of any
> secure
> communications system. These policies attempt to limit encryption to
> forms
> that provide a "back door" for government wiretapping.
>
> Join us for what is certain to be an interesting discussion!
>
> Whitfield Diffie is the inventor of public-key cryptography and a
> Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Susan Landau is Research
> Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of
> Massachusetts,
> Amherst. Both have degrees from MIT.
>
> Ronald Rivest is one of the inventors of the most widely used
> commercial
> encryption scheme, RSA. His recently published research describes a
> new
> method of "confidentiality without encryption" called "chaffing and
> winnowing."
>
> Charles Barry Smith is Supervisory Special Agent and Unit Chief,
> Digital
> Telephony and Encryption Program, Office of Public and Congressional
> Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
>
> Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and
> Engineering
> in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
> MIT.
>
> This forum is FREE, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
>
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