Jun 25, 2008

Cryptography and Computer Security Podcast

Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare, well recognized leaders in the field of cryptography and both past recipients of the RSA Conference Award for Mathematics, are teaching a one week course at the MIT Professional Institute on July 28th titled Cryptography and Computer Security.

The course, Cryptography and Computer Security, offers a rigorous approach to cryptography and security challenges that you won't find in standard textbooks. It is based on the theory of provable security, and, ultimately, will enable you to assess cryptographic technologies with confidence, design cryptography that carries with it a proof of security, and understand many new technologies and their potential applications.

The course provides a state-of-the-art overview of cryptography and its application to computer security and this podcast provides a sense of the trends and directions.

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Shafi Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and a regular speaker on cryptography at RSA Conference and many conferences around the world.  Shafi is a co-leader of the cryptography and information security group and a member of the complexity theory group within the Theory of Computation Group and the Laboratory for Computer Science.  She is also professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She is one of the inventors of the theory of zero-knowledge proofs and the first randomized encryption and digital signature methods.


Mihir Bellare is a Professor in the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego and is a leader in the application of provable security to practice. Mihir is a co-inventor of the HMAC authentication algorithm, the OAEP encryption algorithm and a co-developer of iKP.