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SUMMARY:Bitcoin: A Full Employment Act for security engineers? - Joseph Bo
 nneau\, Center For Information Technology Policy\, Princeton
DTSTART:20140318T150000Z
DTEND:20140318T160000Z
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CONTACT:Laurent Simon
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:*\nThis talk will provide a brief overview of Bitcoi
 n and discuss why it has been a fascinating new area of security research 
 spanning crypto\, security economics\, game theory\, and anonymity. A few 
 case studies will highlight some of the surprising new applications and re
 search findings\, as well as discussing why Bitcoin is far more limited in
  its current version that is commonly assumed.\n\n*Bio:*\nJoseph Bonneau i
 s a fellow at the Center For Information Technology Policy\, Princeton. He
  is focused on web security\, authentication\, and TLS\, though his past r
 esearch has spanned side-channel cryptanalysis\, protocol verification\, s
 oftware obfuscation\, and privacy in social networks.\n\nHe completed his 
 PhD in 2012 with the Security Group of the University of Cambridge Compute
 r Laboratory\, supervised by Professor Ross Anderson and funded as a Gates
  Cambridge Scholar. His PhD thesis formalises the analysis of human-chosen
  distributions of secrets\, specifically passwords and PINs.\n\nHis backgr
 ound is in computer science\, math\, and cryptography\, in which he earned
  his BS and MS from Stanford. He's worked on cryptography and security at 
 Google\, Cryptography Research\, Inc and as a private consultant.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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