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The Wonderful World of Bob and Alice: Martin Gardner, ARS, NSA Interference, and Cracking Knapsack

And atomic weapons and cryptography are covered by special secrecy laws

We have been very fortunate with our Applied Cryptography and Trust module, and where several world leaders in cryptography have given up their own time to come along and chat with our students. This week it was Len Adleman — Turing Prize winner and co-creator of the first public key encryption method (RSA).

Rump sessions

Along the way, we talked about the crazy rump sessions of the cryptograph conferences held in Santa Barbera. He is Crypto 1981, and you can see classic papers from Len, Adi Shamir, Marty Hellman and Manual Blum (Len’s mentor):

and from Whitfield Diffie and David Chaum:

For example, Manual Blum presented his coin flipping method [here], and which has been referenced over 1,000 times in other research…