The Fourth IASTED International Conference on
Communication, Network and Information Security
CNIS 2007
September 24 – 26, 2007
Berkeley, California, USA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
How to Build an Insecure System out of Perfectly Good Cryptography
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Biography of the Keynote Speaker
Radia Perlman is a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems, working on network and security protocols. She invented many of the basic algorithms that make today's network infrastructure robust and scalable. She is author of Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols, and coauthor of Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, both of which are widely used both as textbooks in universities and for engineers to learn the field. She holds over 80 patents, a PhD in computer science from MIT, and an honorary doctorate from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She recently was given a lifetime achievement award by Usenix, and named SVIPLA (Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association) Inventor of the Year.
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