<http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7BE75EFF46-873D-4942-884A-69B736936D6B%7D&CATEGORYNAME=Tamil+Nadu> Chennai Online News Service - View News Dec 20, 2004 Mon Dharana International meet on cryptology in Chennai Search for More News Chennai, Dec 19: A three-day international conference on cryptology will get underway here tomorrow with the aim of providing secure communication to the business and military sectors. Over 140 researchers in the field, including some from abroad, would participate in the conference, Dr M S Vijyaraghavan, executive director, Society for Electronics Transactions and Security (SETS), told reporters here today. Cryptography is the art of providing secure information over insecure channels. It encodes texts and provides a method of decoding. Cryptanalysis is the art of breaking into cryptographic information. The new science - cryptology - was a study of both, he said. India had not made any headway in cryptology, he said and added that the conference would help develop this in a big way. President A P J Abdul Kalam would address the participants through video conferencing. Dr R Chidambaram, principal scientific adviser, Government of India, would inaugurate the conference. (Our Correspondent) Published: Sunday, December 19, 2004 -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'