Fwd: [math-publiclecture] Steven Galbraith's lecture TOMORROW

[david consumer of math]

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From: Alexandra Dumitrescu <alex.du...@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Subject: [math-publiclecture] Steven Galbraith's lecture TOMORROW
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Gibbons Lecture Series: Public Key Cryptography: Computation, Cash and John Nash (by Steven Galbraith)

15 May 2014

6 - 7:30pm

Location: Owen G Glenn Building, Room OGGB3/260-092

 

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/gibbons_lectures/LectureSeries2014/lecture_series2014_4.php

 

Synopsis: This talk will explain how security can be enhanced by the use of hard computational problems from Mathematics. This was the basis for the creation of public key cryptography in the 1970s. Public key cryptography has many applications in information security, such as secure internet shopping, digital signatures and secure automatic software updates. We will see how digital signatures have now become a crucial component of the electronic currency bitcoin.

 

Cryptography is, of course, of great interest to national security. Recently (only declassified in 2012) it has been revealed that John Nash (subject of the film A Beautiful Mind) sent a letter to the United States National Security Agency in 1955. His letter outlined new concepts that anticipated by decades fundamental notions in computational complexity and modern cryptography.

 

The lecture will be streamed live.
Currently you can test the link to ensure that your computer is set up correctly.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Alexandra

 

Alexandra Dumitrescu

Departmental Coordinator and PA to the HoD

Department of Mathematics

University of Auckland

Tel. 9235886

Ext. 85886

Email. Alex.Du...@auckland.ac.nz