The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Phillip Rogaway (Professor of CS at UC Davis) has released in the form of an essay his keynote talk from Asiacrypt. Very interesting reflection on the politics of crypto, historically and at present. -- "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" Phil Rogaway http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a failure of our field. I believe that it does. I call for a community-wide effort to develop more effective means to resist mass surveillance. I plea for a reinvention of our disciplinary culture to attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal implications of our work. -- -=rsw
Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Phillip Rogaway (Professor of CS at UC Davis) has released in the form of an essay his keynote talk from Asiacrypt. Very interesting reflection on the politics of crypto, historically and at present.
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"The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" Phil Rogaway http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a failure of our field. I believe that it does. I call for a community-wide effort to develop more effective means to resist mass surveillance. I plea for a reinvention of our disciplinary culture to attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal implications of our work.
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So much for this guy's UC tenure, or tenure track, if any. RR
Riad S. Wahby <rsw@jfet.org> writes:
Phillip Rogaway (Professor of CS at UC Davis) has released in the form of an essay his keynote talk from Asiacrypt. Very interesting reflection on the politics of crypto, historically and at present.
For those who missed the talk this morning, he's also doing a public lecture next Wednesday: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2015/1... Feel free to drop by, and then follow it up with KiwiCon the next day: https://www.kiwicon.org/ Peter.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
... For those who missed the talk this morning, he's also doing a public lecture next Wednesday:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2015/1...
next up, software engineers who neglect the nation state TAO threat! your lack of input sanitization costs conspiring lives! :o best regards,
Remember kids, use type-safe languages. Only *you* can prevent cyber-warfare. -Travis On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:15 PM, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
... For those who missed the talk this morning, he's also doing a public lecture next Wednesday:
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news-events-and-notices/news/news-2015/1...
next up, software engineers who neglect the nation state TAO threat!
your lack of input sanitization costs conspiring lives! :o
best regards,
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