Cryptography: A Closer Look at Protecting Digital Secrets

(free and open to the public;
high school students/parents/teachers/administrators are particularly welcome)

Philip Chan, Marius Silaghi, Ryan Stansifer (Florida Tech)
Jan 15, Friday, 7-8pm, Auditorium (Room 118), Olin Engineering Complex, Florida Tech

Materials from the lecture: Introduction, Substitution Encryption, Encryption algorithms and future

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Directions to Florida Tech campus
(search for and select Olin Engineering--button for directions is under the description of the building)

Campus map in PDF (Building 36 is Olin Engineering Complex)

Press Release

The proliferation of mobile electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops has dramatically increased the generation, communication, and collection of digital information/data. Some of these data are expected to be private among the intended audiences. Cryptography studies how to protect private data from unintended audiences. In this lecture, we will take a closer look at cryptography and you will experience the challenges in an interactive demo using your smart phones.

About the speakers:

Philip Chan is a faculty member in computer science at Florida Tech. His main research interests include machine learning and data mining.

Marius Silaghi is a faculty member in computer science at Florida Tech. His main research interests are in cryptography, constraint reasoning, speech recognition, and robotics.

Ryan Stansifer is a faculty member in computer science at Florida Tech. His main research interests are in programming languages, especially type theory and functional language. He hopes to strengthen problem solving abilities in his students through intercollegiate programming competitions.

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