Interesting security-related talk this Sunday Feb. 17, 11:00 @ Weizmann

[Yossi Oren]

Hi All,

djb (who did a lot of interesting stuff - try Wikipedia) is visiting Israel and giving a talk this Sunday at the Weizmann Institute.  It will probably be very entertaining.

Kol tuv,

Yossi.

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From: Gizel Maimon <gizel....@weizmann.ac.il>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Subject: Foundations of Computer Science Seminar - February 17, 11:00
To: gizel....@weizmann.ac.il, semi...@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il




                     The  Weizmann  Institute  of  Science
                  Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science


                    Foundations of Computer Science Seminar

                    Seminar Room, Room 261, Ziskind Building
                          on Sunday, February 17, 2013
                                    at 11:00





                 Daniel J. Bernstein (1, 2) and Tanja Lange (2)
                      (1)University of Illinois at Chicago
                      (2)Technische Universiteit Eindhoven


                                 will speak on


               The security impact of a new cryptographic library

Abstract:
This talk introduces a new cryptographic library, NaCl, and explains how the
design and implementation of the library avoid various types of cryptographic
disasters suffered by previous cryptographic libraries such as OpenSSL. This is
joint work with Peter Schwabe.





                         Note the unusual day and time