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Date: 19/10/2011 Location: University Assembly Hall at the University Main Building, Ülikooli 18, room 203 (note the room change!)
Speaker: Dominique Unruh
Title: Everlasting Security
Abstract:
We must face up to the fact that today’s encryption schemes may be broken in the future. It may happen that, if an attacker manages to record encrypted messages by which we have processed sensitive data, and the encryption scheme is then broken at a later date, the attacker will have retrospective access to the data. In his lecture, Professor Unruh will explain how an encryption protocol dubbed “everlasting security” can be attained in a wide variety of tasks by using quantum cryptography.