The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
IT security practitioners who employ the RSA public-private key cryptography needn’t lose sleep about its efficacy, despite new research that raises questions on how it creates large prime numbers to generate secret keys. IT security authority Gene Spafford says.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University computer science professor Eugene Spafford, a sought-after global expert on computer security and privacy issues, is the featured speaker at the next Science on Tap on Thursday (Jan. 19) in downtown Lafayette.
Spafford, who has served as an information security consultant to the White House and other federal government agencies, will speak at 6 p.m. in the upstairs of the Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main St., Lafayette.
It is possible that hackers, terrorists, accidents or even sunspots could take down the Internet and cause areas to become cut off and unreachable, said Spafford, one of the foremost experts on computer security.
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Information security threats - especially to critical infrastructures and from nation-states - are evolving. But security education curricula are struggling to keep pace, according to Eugene Spafford, renowned information security professor at Purdue University.
