[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

You are being sent this reminder message because either you gave your
email address at one of our previous lectures or you signed up on the
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(http://www.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/iee-ec3-news).

I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you there.

Details of our other lectures may be found at - 
http://www.iee.org/OnComms/Branches/UK/England/SEastE/EC3/

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IEE Thames Valley Specialised Section

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Thames Valley Specialised Section, Electronics, Control, Computing &
Communications

Modern Encryption

Richard Pinch

Cheltenham / Bristol

Thursday 23rd November 2006 at 19:30

Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford.

Light refreshments available from 19:00-19:30

"I will describe the main ideas of public key cryptography; the
mathematical principles that underlie this technology and how they
were discovered.

I will show how this is applied in the real world, for example how
it can be used to secure transactions on the internet and I will
also explain how digital signatures work.

I will then look at a variety of mathematical structures that can be
used in cryptography, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of
these different approaches, finishing with a discussion of some recent
advances in the subject."

If you want to know more, come along. All are welcome and no ticket is
required. Simply turn up on the night. For more details please contact
Dr Richard Mitchell at rjmitchell@theiet.org, or 0118 378 6790

Directions: Enter Oxford Brookes from Gypsy Lane. The lecture will be
signposted from the entrance hall. See
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/findus/headington