February 13th, Wednesday 14:30, Room 506, Jacobs Building ** NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE **

Title: The security impact of a new cryptographic library

Lecturers: Daniel J. Bernstein (1,2) Tanja Lange (2)

Lecturer homepage: http://cr.yp.to/djb.html

Lecturer homepage: http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/

Affiliation : (1) University of Illinois at Chicago, USA (2) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

This talk introduces a new cryptographic library, NaCl (http://nacl.cr.yp.to), and explains how the design and implementation of the library avoid various types of cryptographic disasters suffered by previous cryptographic libraries such as OpenSSL. This is joint work with Peter Schwabe.