BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2013/newsitem/5287/16- October-2013-BetaBreak DTSTAMP:20131010T000000 SUMMARY:BetaBreak ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Jeremy Butcher, Rop Gonggrij p, Christian Schaffner DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20131016T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20131016T000000 LOCATION:FNWI building (central hall), Science Par k 904, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:The BètaBreak of Wednesday, October 16 th is all about cryptography. But what does it mea n: cryptography? How can you encrypt your data, an d how safe is it? What is the status of quantum cr yptography? And how safe is digital data for intel ligence agencies and privacy? This summer Edward Snowden, a computer security specialist at the U.S . National Security Agency, blew the whistle on th e practices of that service. Together with the Bri tish GCHQ they eavesdrop on much of the Internet t raffic, including encrypted communications. They d o this by forcing major Internet to transfer data, but also to crack the encryption or even weaken i t beforehand. Thus cryptography - essential for sa fe Internet - becomes less reliable: for e-mail, b ut also for banking. Wednesday 16 October, the Bè taBreak will be in the central hall of the Faculty of Science building at the Science Park, and we w ill discuss these subjects with the following gues ts: Jeremy Butcher of the Crypto unit at IT securi ty company Fox-IT, which in the Netherlands plays a key role in the investigation of and protection against IT security incidents.Rop Gonggrijp, edito r-in-chief of the hacker magazine Hack-Tic, founde r of XS4ALL, creator of the Cryptophone and captai n of 'Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet' ('we do n ot trust voting computers').Christian Schaffner, a ssistant professor at the Institute for Logic, Lan guage and Computation (ILLC), and researcher in th e field of quantum cryptography. For more informat ion, see http://www.betabreak.nl/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n

The B&egra ve;taBreak of Wednesday, October 16th is all about cryptography. But what does it mean: cryptography ? How can you encrypt your data, and how safe is i t? What is the status of quantum cryptography? And how safe is digital data for intelligence agencie s and privacy?

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This summer Edward Sno wden, a computer security specialist at the U.S. N ational Security Agency, blew the whistle on the p ractices of that service. Together with the Britis h GCHQ they eavesdrop on much of the Internet traf fic, including encrypted communications. They do t his by forcing major Internet to transfer data, bu t also to crack the encryption or even weaken it b eforehand. Thus cryptography - essential for safe Internet - becomes less reliable: for e-mail, but also for banking.

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Wednesday 16 Octob er, the BètaBreak will be in the central ha ll of the Faculty of Science building at the Scien ce Park, and we will discuss these subjects with t he following guests:

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For more information, see http://www.betabreak .nl/

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