Cracking Open Encryption Standards
33:31 minutes
Recent revelations about the extent of NSA surveillance have put even the standards by which encryption systems are designed into question. Encryption experts Matthew Green, Phillip Zimmermann, and Martin Hellman discuss what makes a code secure and the limits of privacy in the modern age.
Segment Guests
Matthew D. Green
Matthew D. Green is an assistant professor in the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Phil Zimmermann
Phil Zimmermann is the creator of PGP and president and co-founder of Silent Circle in National Harbor, Maryland.
Martin E. Hellman
Martin E. Hellman is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering in Stanford, California.
Related Links
- A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
- Forbes: “E-mail’s Big Privacy Problem—Q&A with Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann”
- GigaOM: “Zimmermann’s Law–PGP Inventor and Silent Circle Co-founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society”
- CNET: “Phil Zimmermann’s Post-PGP Project_Privacy for a Price”
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