--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:58:21 -0800 To: mac crypto list <mac-crypto@vmeng.com> From: Vinnie Moscaritolo <vinnie@vmeng.com> Subject: Fwd: FYI: Jefferson Club: "A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption" Sender: <mac-crypto@vmeng.com> Precedence: Bulk

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The Jefferson Club is proud to present: David Friedman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University to speak on "A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption"

Luncheon Wednesday, February 25th 12:00 noon Ming's Villa in Palo Alto

Reserve your place at http://www.ipser.com/jeffersonclub.

A major theme in discussions of the influence of technology on society has been the computer as a threat to privacy. It now appears that the truth is precisely opposite. Three technologies associated with computers, public key encryption, networking, and virtual reality, are in the process of giving us a level of privacy never known before. The U.S. government is currently intervening in an attempt, not to protect privacy, but to prevent it.

Professor Friedman will explain the technologies and demonstrate that current developments, if they continue, will produce a world of strong privacy, a world in which large parts of our lives are technologically protected from the observation of others. He will discuss the likely consequences, attractive and unattractive, of that change and provide a brief account of attempts by the U.S. government to prevent or control the rise of privacy.

For a preview of the talk, see "A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption" (http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Strong_Privacy/Strong_Privacy.html) Come prepared with questions for Professor Friedman.

For more information or to reserve your place, visit: http://www.ipser.com/jeffersonclub

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