======================================= Media Advisory BayFF Celebrates RSA Patent Expiration Whit Diffie and Dave Del Torto Speak of RSA's Past and Future WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Whit Diffie, Dave Del Torto and music by UKUSA from VirtualRecordings.com WHAT: `BayFF' Meeting on RSA Patent Expiration WHEN: Monday September 11th, 2000 at 7:30PM WHERE: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport (650) 347-1234 Directions are forthcoming on the EFF website: www.eff.org In honor of its 10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online, EFF presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues where technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF," kicked off on July 10th and will continue throughout the year. The upcoming BayFF features famed cryptographer Whitfield Diffie and MEconomy's Master of Secrets, Dave Del Torto. They will help us celebrate the RSA patent's expiration on September 20th, 2000. How will these changes effect the public at large? What are the benefits? Are there any drawbacks? Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation. Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely in public policy, in the area of cryptography. Dave Del Torto's career in Internet privacy and security started in the late 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was one of the original "Cypherpunks." He joined Pretty Good Privacy Inc. (PGP) as a founding employee in 1996, and in 1997 was part of the four-man team that published the entire PGP source code in 13 paper volumes, which resulted in the first legal international PGP freeware (exports of 128-bit crypto have since been greatly deregulated). He currently serves as the Executive Director of the CryptoRights Foundation (a human rights security organization) and is the Chief Security Officer of MEconomy, Inc., a privacy infomediary company based in San Francisco. **** You can subscribe to EFF's mailing list to receive the regular BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email <majordomo@eff.org> and put this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe BayFF. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world. Contact: John Marttila Administrative Assistant Electronic Frontier Foundation 415-436-9333 ex 107 <<<<

...

...

...

====================== Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639