About the series
Abstract
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 my community's 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 plead for a reinvention of our disciplinary
culture to attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal
implications of our work.
Speaker
Phillip Rogaway studied cryptography at MIT (1991), then worked as a security
architect for IBM before joining the faculty at the University of California,
Davis in 1994. Co-inventor of “practice-oriented provable security,” Rogaway’s
work seeks to meld cryptographic theory and cryptographic practice in a
mutually beneficial way.
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