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--- begin forwarded text From: Rich Lethin <lethin@ai.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:06:20 -0400 To: rah@shipwright.com Subject: [joei@hq.lcs.mit.edu: DLS -- the first one this year] Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:34:24 -0400 To: seminars@lcs.mit.edu, help-teach@hq.lcs.mit.edu, eecsfaculty@eecs.mit.edu From: joei@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Joei Juanita Marshall) Subject: DLS -- the first one this year DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES DATE: October 17, 1996 TIME: 3:15 - Refreshments 4:00 - Lecture PLACE: MIT, Building 34, Room 101, Vassar St., Cambridge, MA "Cryptology, Technology, and Politics" Dr. Whitfield Diffie Distinguished Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. October 17, 1996 Abstract: traditional human intelligence as a vital implement of state power. Over the past two decades, a combination of falling costs and new technologies have made high-grade cryptography widely available. This threatens many communications intelligence sources --- though probably not communications intelligence itself. The result has been a series of panicky government attempts to control the spread of cryptographic technology. As long as individuals have access to computers that really `work for them,' such attempts are unlikely to succeed. The opponents of cryptography may, nonetheless, damage both our democracy and our economy with their efforts. Host: Professor Michael Dertouzos Joei Juanita Marshall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square NE43-104 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-0145 Fax: (617) 258-8682 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/