DETROIT ? Sun Microsystems Chief Security Officer, Whitfield Diffie, is a keynote speaker Sept. 21 during the first day of the Detroit SecureWorld Expo. Diffie, best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, will explain the struggles and risks of preserving privacy in the online era.
Diffie spent the 1990s working primarily on the public policy aspects of cryptography and has testified several times in the Senate and House of Representatives. His position – in opposition to limitations on the business and personal use of cryptography – is the subject of the book, Crypto, by Steven Levy of Newsweek.
Diffie and Susan Landau are joint authors of the book Privacy on the Line, which examines the politics of wiretapping and encryption and won the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research and the IEEE-USA award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession.
The Detroit SecureWorld Expo takes place September 21-22 at the Ford Conference and Events Center.
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