Side-Channel Cryptanalysis and the Fourth Amendment
April 13, 2018 5:30 pm to 6:10 pmCryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn will be speaking at the 2018 InfoSec Southwest.Encryption shields private information from malicious eavesdroppers. After years of...
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