Henry Corrigan-Gibbs on Cryptography in the Open: History of Crypto and the NSA

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs will review the history of Diffie-Hellman key exchange and how the NSA fought to keep the authors from publishing. He will give a bit of information that was not in his Stanford Magazine article (http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=74801) on the topic. He will also briefly give an academic's perspective on cryptocurrencies.

Henry (http://www.henrycg.com/) is a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on cryptography under Dan Boneh (http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/). His research has included work on Riposte (http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14au-cs244b/labs/projects/corrigan-gibbs.pdf), an anonymous messaging system for millions of users.