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SUMMARY:HSM Portal  Practical Tools built on Theory - Bond\, M (Cryptomath
 ic)
DTSTART:20120201T114500Z
DTEND:20120201T123000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Cryptomathic has been working on a new approach to application
 s cryptography\, inspired by the need to give useful and sound building bl
 ocks to applications developers\, rather than flexible but dangerous tools
 . This is partly based on some ideas and work by George French\, Senior Se
 curity Architect\, Barclays. The talk describes novel features of our âM 
 portalâ \na cryptographic service which offers high-level primitives to a
 pplications\, and abstracts away dirty detail of hardware security module 
 and software cryptography and key management.  Using a high-level approach
  allows the service to offer primitives closer to the theoretical models o
 f black box cryptography than are ordinarily provided by a simple crypto l
 ibrary.  Our talk will discuss why we believe the gap between applications
  developers requiring cryptography and security engineers/theorists is eve
 r widening. We believe new tools are needed and proposed theoretical ideas
  need to be brought to life to bridge this gap\, lest practice become tota
 lly disconnected from theory in the future.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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