The talk features Seny Kamara, an associate professor of computer science at Brown University.
He will speak on the ways cryptography primarily benefits some interests, most often those to do with business and corporations, while providing limited benefits for the broader population.
The write-up for the talk notes, "Cryptography underpins a multitude of critical security- and privacy-enhancing technologies. Recent advances in modern cryptography promise to revolutionize finance, cloud computing and data analytics."
"But cryptography does not affect everyone in the same way. In this talk, I will discuss how cryptography benefits mostly industry and not people. In contrast, I will also provide examples of cryptography research motivated by social problems and discuss some of the challenges in conducting this research."
Kamara's research is in cryptography and is driven by real-world problems from privacy, security and surveillance. He has worked extensively on the design and cryptanalysis of encrypted search algorithms, which are efficient algorithms to search on end-to-end encrypted data.
At Brown, he co-directs the Encrypted Systems Lab and the Computing for the People project and is affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, the Policy Lab and the Data Science Initiative.
Register for the upcoming talk on the event page through CPI.
