Each year at RSAC, a cadre of celebrated cryptographers weigh in on the most important issues of the day. The Cryptographers Panel is one of the conference s must-see events, even as RSAC embarks on its first-ever virtual event. That unusual backdrop made the experts concerns all the more stark.
Instead of a semicircle of chairs on stage at the Moscone Center, the Cryptographers Panel was in the form of a pre-recorded video conference released on May 17, the first day of the 2021 conference. Members faces floated in individual boxes akin to the Zoom calls so many of us have grown accustomed to during the pandemic.
Last year, RSAC was one of the few international conferences actually held in person. This time around, it's entirely remote. Here are some of the stories we're keeping an eye on for the security conference.
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WE STAND TODAY on the brink of a revolution in cryptography.
The development of computer controlled communication networks promises effortless and inexpensive contact between people or computers on opposite sides of the world, replacing most mail and many excursions with telecommunications. For many applications these contacts must be made secure against both eavesdropping and the injection of illegitimate messages. At present, however, the solution of security problems lags well behind other areas of communications technology. Contemporary cryptography is unable to meet the requirements, in that its use would impose such severe inconveniences on the system users, as to eliminate many of the benefits of teleprocessing.
Stanford professor Martin Hellman is best known for his invention (joint with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle) of public key cryptography, the technology that protects trillions of dollars every day. This work won him the ACM Turing Award, sometimes thought of as “the Nobel Prize in Computer Science.”
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