A symposium organized by the
Xerox PARC Computer Science Laboratory
FREE and open to the public
June 20, 2000, 9 AM - 5 PM
PARC Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Many speakers' slides are now available. Follow links from this page or from the abstract pages.
Video of the symposium is on its way. Watch this space.
Information security technologies are in rapid flux. Cryptosystems are becoming stronger, faster and more widespread. At the same time, operating systems are becoming weaker and more poorly administered. All this is happening against a Moore's-law-driven background of improvements in storage capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, and computational power. Potentially disruptive technologies such as quantum computing and nanotechnology are in the wings.
It seems clear to some that by 2010 cryptographic operations of all sorts will be as cheap and as plentiful as dirt, and that they will be as unremarkable then as IP stacks have become today. How will things be different in the coming era of abundant cryptography? How will our children keep a secret? What new businesses will arise?
Others believe the promise of cryptographic abundance will be stopped in its tracks by growth in overall complexity or by government intervention.
Come join us to explore the scientific, engineering, economic and social issues raised by an era of cryptographic abundance.
Speakers:
Symposium organizer and panel moderator:
Please direct questions to Teresa Lunt (tlunt@parc.com).