John Gilmore to speak at 5 April 1999 Meeting of ISOC-NY

[Don Saklad]

Forwarded From: secretary (a) lxny.org


The New York City Chapter of the Internet Society
http://www.isoc-ny.org

remains too little known.  They need more free software partisans at
their meetings and on their Board.


This week there are two big visitors meetings.  The other is Jack
Schwartz's 6 April 1999 talk on SETL and keyboardless programming.

http://www.lxny.org


Both meetings are free and open to the public.


Jay Sulzberger <secretary (a) lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org



Cracking DES, Encryption Policy, and Open Source Software
Co-Sponsored by Computer Advocacy at NYU 

by: John Gilmore
Board member of the Internet Society,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
advocate on encryption policy 

Time and Place 
Monday, April 5, 1999
8:00 pm
New York University
Loeb Student Center -- Room: South Lobby
Theater 
La Guadia Pl & Washingtion Square South 

Cost: FREE 

Description: 

Cracking DES, Encryption Policy, and Open Source
Software Encryption policy has been remarkably
resistant to ordinary scientific or political change. Open
Source software provides unique ways to rapidly spread
concepts and capabilities through society. He used open
source scientific publication to change the dynamics of
encryption policy by building and publishing the hardware
and software of a custom chip and machine. It breaks
government-sponsored weak DES encryption in a week
on average. He'll discuss the project and how it has
changed the encryption market and government policies. 

John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He
was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, and
co-founded Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), the Cypherpunks, and the Internet's
"alt" newsgroups. He has twenty-five years of experience
in the computer industry, including programming,
hardware and software design, management, and
investment. He is a significant contributor to the
worldwide open source (free software) development effort.
His advocacy efforts on encryption policy aim to improve
public understanding of this fundamental technology for
privacy and accountability in open societies. He led the
team that built the world's first published DES Cracker
for EFF. He is a board member of the Internet Society,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and C2net Software.