Phillip Rogaway
Feb 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM in 373 Soda Hall
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Title:The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work: An essay, its genesis, and its reception
Abstract: In December I nervously put out an essay entitled “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work.” I had been brooding over the thing for months. The essay suggests that, in view of the extraordinary surveillance we are all being subjected to, my own field, cryptography, has completely failed in its most basic aim. Adding insult to injury, I claimed says that this is not just a technical failure, but also a moral failure. These messages were not exactly crafted to win or keep friends, and I anticipated that the essay might well be angrily or derisively received. It was not. In this talk I’ll reprise the essay’s main claims, discuss why I wrote it, and conjecture as to why the reaction was far more positive than one might have anticipated. Link to essay: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
Bio: Phillip Rogaway works at that obscure university UCB students pass by on their way to go ski. He did his undergrad studies at UCB (1985), his graduate work at MIT (1991), and then a stint at IBM. Phil came to UC Davis in 1994. Co-inventor of “practice-oriented provable security,” Phil’s work aims to combine cryptographic theory and cryptographic practice in a mutually beneficial way.