COOKIES: By using this website you agree that we can place Google Analytics Cookies on your device for performance monitoring. |
University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Computer Laboratory Security Seminar > A conversation with Phil Zimmermann
A conversation with Phil ZimmermannAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Joseph Bonneau. Phil Zimmermann is a veteran of the crypto wars of the 1990s, when governments tried to ban and then to control cryptography. After he wrote Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), which he made available online in 1991, he was arraigned before a grand jury on suspicion of violating export-control laws. PGP became the most widely-used encryption program in the world and the US government dropped its case in 1996. That attempt to control crypto petered out during the dotcom boom and was abandoned by Al Gore during the 2000 election. But the surveillance state has constantly reinvented itself, from the illegal wiretapping of US citizens under George W. Bush to the proliferation of CCTV cameras in Britain and – now – the Interception Modernisation Program. This rising tide of surveillance since 9/11 brought Phil back into the business of crypto activism with Zfone, a secure VOIP program. This meeting will be structured not so much as a lecture but a conversation, which will range over the technology and policy of crypto wars old and new. This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Security Seminar series. This talk is included in these lists:
Note that ex-directory lists are not shown. |
Other listsDruggability and the Genome (EBI, Hinxton, 4th February 2008) M&EM: The Medieval & Early Modern Workshop Quantum Fields and Strings SeminarsOther talksA feast of languages: multilingualism in neuro-typical and atypical populations Localization estimates for hypoelliptic equations New Insights in Immunopsychiatry (Provisional Title) Making Refuge: Scripture and Refugee Relief Protean geographies: Plants, politics and postcolonialism in South Africa Intelligent Self-Driving Vehicles Speculations about homological mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces “Modulating Tregs in Cancer and Autoimmunity” The Productivity Paradox: are we too busy to get anything done? DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData Climate change, archaeology and tradition in an Alaskan Yup'ik Village |