moin, moin, ASULUG's Nov meeting is this coming Wed. Food and crypto. See the web page, http://ASULUG.asu.edu/, for more info. ciao, der.hans -- # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ http://www.DevelopOnline.com/ # Help Jerry Lewis stamp out M$...oops that's MDA - der.hans ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 15:22:01 -0700 From: Monika Reply-To: Arizona State University Linux Users Group To: ASULUG@asu.edu Subject: ASULUG meeting reminder Hello everybody, Next meeting is coming up in A WEEK from today! Partha Dasgupta will give a talk on cryptography. He always gives great lectures, so be sure to come. He also offers a cryptography class next semester. If you like his talk, you might want to take his class as well. Note that the place of the meeting has been changed and we will also have some snacks this time. see the abstract below for details, Monika when: Wednesday, November 14 at 6pm where: MU 226B (Memorial Union room Ventana B) Abstract: Cryptography and Privacy (or "I have nothing to hide") Would you tell me what your salary is? How about you address? Social security number? Fetishes? Most likely not. Thus you must have something to hide, even though you did not do anything wrong. Cryptography is an intriguing double-edged sword. It allows people to hide things. Yet it allows people to identify themselves without a doubt. It allows documents to be make unalterable and prove the identity of the author. Yet is allows the identity to remain controllably secret. This talk presents a quick overview of cryptographic techniques for authentication, privacy and cooperation amongst untrusting adversaries. We discuss the importance and pitfalls of the need for privacy. We also present some scary vulnerabilities of the much-hyped yet dangerous form of identity tracking called "biometrics".