Cryptography for People

Our privacy is eroding at a fast pace as we are increasingly using and forced to use electronic media for our daily tasks. In this talk we are argue that this is not only a privacy issue but as well a security problem. We show that lots of technologies exist that are ready to use but are not used, and give a couple of examples of such technologies and explain them. We finally discuss research and other challenges that still need to be overcome to a realise a more secure and privacy preserving digital world.

Dr. Jan Camenisch is a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research - Zurich and leads the Privacy & Cryptography research team.
He's a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IEEE Fellow.
He is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography, has published over 100 widely cited papers, and has received a number of awards for his work, including the 2010 ACM SIGSAC outstanding innovation award and the 2013 IEEE computer society technical achievement award.