22 January 1998

To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Organization: IT Vulnerabilities Group, DERA Malvern, UK
Subject: "The Pre-History of Public Key Cryptography" (fwd)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:07:28 +0000
From: Christopher Samuel <C.Samuel@eris.dera.gov.uk>

I thought this may be of interest to some people. Forwarded from a
newsgroup.

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PUBLIC LECTURE

Title:          "The Pre-History of Public Key Cryptography"

Speaker:        Richard Walton, GCHQ

Date:           4 February 1998, 4.30pm

Place:          Royal Holloway (University of London)
                Egham
                Surrey
                UK

In December 1997 CESG published an article which contained the following 
reference: JH Ellis 'The Possibility of Secure Non-Secret Digital Encryption'.
CESG Report, 1970. This report, which precedes the celebrated 1976 paper of
Diffie and Hellman, discusses Public Key Cryptography. Their announcement has
aroused considerable public interest and Richard Walton has kindly agreed to
talk to us about those early years.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

The talk will be given in Room BLT1 in the Bourne Building but tea will be
provided from about 3.45 outside the Lecture Room.

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cheers,
Chris
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