Cryptography in the Open: History of Crypto and the NSA

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs reviews the history of Diffie-Hellman key exchange and how the NSA fought to keep the authors from publishing. He will give a bit of information that was not in his Stanford Magazine article on the topic. Henry is a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on cryptography under Dan Boneh. His research has included work on Riposte, an anonymous messaging system for millions of users. Slides of the talk http://www.henrycg.com/files/academic/pres/ethereum15cryptography-slides.pdf Henry Corrigan-Gibbs' website: http://www.henrycg.com/ Stanford Magazine Article: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=74801 Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/ Organised & Recorded by Christian Peel Music: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)