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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Golden Anniversary of Public Key Cryptography: A Brief Tour and Trends
Join us for this CISE Invited Speaker Seminar with Dr. Paul C. Van Oorschot, Professor of Computer Science at Carleton University
Speaker(s)
Dr. Paul Van Oorschot
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.
Room 3.309
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About this talk
Fifty years ago, the concept of public key cryptography was introduced by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. Their ideas provided the foundations for securing the Internet and today’s digital society. We trace the evolution of these ideas from their 1976 paper to today, identifying major trends, and the path through elliptic curve cryptography and more recent so-called quantum-safe algorithms. The talk will include some technical details, but targets a broad computer science audience.
About the speaker
Dr. Paul C. Van Oorschot is a Professor of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He was Program Chair of USENIX Security 2008 and NDSS 2001-2002, and has served on the editorial boards of IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, and ACM TISSEC/TOPS. His research interests include authentication and identity management, computer and Internet security, software security, usable security, key management, and applied cryptography. He has written several books on cryptography and security, over a career spanning both industry and academia. He has served as Program Chair of USENIX Security (2008) and NDSS (2001, 2002), and on the editorial boards of major IEEE and ACM journals.