Mistakes and Blunders: A Hacker Looks at Cryptography.

Presented at Black Hat USA 1998, July 30, 1998, 9 a.m. (45 minutes).

From encryption to digital signatures to electronic commerce to secure voting cryptography has become the enabling technology that allows us to take existing business and social constructs and move them to computer networks. But a lot of cryptography is bad, and the problem with bad cryptography is that it looks just like good cryptography; most people cannot tell the difference. Security is a chain: only as strong as the weakest link. In this talk I'll examine some of the common mistakes companies make implementing cryptography, and give tips on how to avoid them.

Presenters:

• Bruce Schneier - President of Counterpane Systems and author of Applied Cryptography
  Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.

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