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An Interesting Opportunity

Wed, February 22, 2012 — General,


Putting to Rest RSA Key Security Worries

Tue, February 21, 2012 —

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.





Spafford to Speak at Next Science on Tap

Thu, January 19, 2012 —

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.



No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down?

Thu, January 19, 2012 — CERIAS Media Citings,

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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