INFORMS MeetingNovember 18th at 12:15pm
Durham 260
Featuring a presentation by Dr. Ezra Brown Professor, Math, Virginia TechChocolate Key Cryptography: A Delicious Way to Send Secret MessagesSharing a secret with someone you don't trust, message authentication, message integrity, user identification -- nowadays, these are all made possible by a branch of cryptography called Public Key Cryptography. The mathematics behind much of public key cryptography was once praised for its great uselessness -- and we'll talk about that. Finally, Chocolate Key Cryptography is a way to describe a certain public key cryptosystem, a way that is easy to learn, fun, and delicious.
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