Speaker: 

Shane Ryerson

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 5:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Almost all forms of communication on the internet are initiated and obfuscated by a method of public key cryptography. Perhaps the most important among these are credit card transactions. This talk will discuss why public key cryptography is considered safe enough for those transactions and how quantum computers are a threat to those methods.