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As in recent years, panelists included Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir - the R and S in the RSA cryptosystem. They were joined by Carmela Troncoso, an assistant professor at Switzerland s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, whose work focuses on analyzing, building and deploying secure and privacy-preserving systems.
Also on the panel: Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, founder of the discipline of security economics and author of the textbook Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems.
Moderating was Zulfikar Ramzan, chief digital officer at RSA - the security firm that runs the eponymous conference - who dived headfirst into one aspect of the crypto debate.
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RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – The annual Cryptographers Panel, moderated Monday by RSA chief digital officer Zulfikar Ramzan, brought together cryptographers Carmela Troncoso, assistant professor at EPFL; Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University; and panel mainstays (the R and S in RSA ) MIT professor Ron Rivest and Weizmann Institute professor of computer science Adi Shamir. (Another usual participant, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie, was not part of the panel but did a rapid-fire, one-on-one repartee with Ramzan.)
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.