30 Years of Public Key Cryptography 83
An anonymous reader writes "Public key crypto turned 30 last night, and the biggest names in crypto turned out to celebrate at an event hosted at the Computer History Museum. Voltage Security teamed with RSA to bring together some of the most famous cryptographers of yesterday (Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman) and today (Dan Boneh), along with luminaries Ray Ozzie, Brian Snow, and Jim Bidzos. From the ZDNet article: 'NYT reporter John Markoff, who has covered Silicon Valley for 30 years, was master of ceremonies, and started off by saying that no technology has had a more profound impact than cryptography, and that public-key cryptography has been underappreciated for its role in the Internet. Without public key cryptography, ecommerce would be an idea as opposed to an enabler of billions of daily transactions.' You can view the podcast and pictures of the event at the Voltage Security site.."
Celebration! (Score:5, Funny)
When cryptography is outlawed, (Score:3, Funny)
(If you do a run of stickers with that on them, kindly tell me, and I'll buy some from you.)
stop spoiling the Americans party (Score:0, Funny)
oh come on everyone knows the Americans cracked the Enigma code and single handedly beat the Germans in WW2, invented the steam engine, electricity, telephones, TV and are the World champions of baseball and football !
GO USA #1 *
*not applicable in 191 countries
Re:When cryptography is outlawed, (Score:4, Funny)
(for the uninformed, NTT allows you to easily install extensions that are only marked for compatibility with older FF versions)