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News and announcements from EE PublishersIssue 95, May 2010

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Information security and its impact upon society

The University of Johannesburg Telecommunications Research Group, in association with the IEEE South Africa Sction, the IET South Africa Network and EE Publishers, cordially invites you to attend a presentation entitled:
 
INFORMATION SECURITY AND ITS IMPACT UPON SOCIETY
by Prof. Vijay K. Bhargava, FRSC, FIEEE
 
DATE: Monday 7 June, 2010
TIME: 10h00 for 10h30 to 12h00, after which lunch will be served
VENUE: The Kerzner Building, Conference Room 1, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus (click here for a map and directions)
COST: No cost, free-of-charge
 
PROGRAMME
 
10h00 to 10h30: Tea/Coffee on arrival
10h30 to 11h30: Presentation
12h00: Lunch
 
SYNOPSIS

There is no point in having information unless it can be communicated from one point to another point (telecommunications) or from one time to another time (storage). In both cases, protecting information from unauthorized access, modification and disruption is critical. Cryptography is a key technology in protecting information. It was traditionally concerned with maintaining confidentiality. Recently, there has been a dramatic growth in the applications of cryptography in other areas such as commerce.

Modern cryptography can be divided into symmetric-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In this talk, some of the current symmetric-key and public-key cryptographic techniques used in achieving information security are outlined. These include the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) which is the symmetric-key encryption standard adapted by the US government, and two well-known public-key cryptosystems, namely RSA (the initials of its inventors) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).
 
The impact of information security upon society is then outlined. In particular, we focus on the usage of information security in Internet filtering. The Internet filtering can take place in different levels: local, organizational or national. In all these levels, the objective of filtering is to prevent or limit access to information/content that is against national/cultural values or is considered harmful for the users whether they are children or adults. Some of the current filtering techniques are outlined, as well as some of the circumventing methods to bypass it.
 
BRIEF CV OF PRESENTER

Prof. Vijay K. Bhargava served as head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2008. He was founder and president of Binary Communications Inc. from 1983 - 2000. He is a co-author of "Digital Communications by Satellite" (New York: Wiley 1981), a co-editor of "Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications" (IEEE Press 1994), a co-editor of "Communications, Information and Network Security" (Kluwer: 2003), co-editor of "Cognitive Wireless Communications Networks" (Springer: 2007), and co-editor of "Cooperative Wireless Communications Networks", a forthcoming Cambridge University Press Publication. In January 2007, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and served until December 2009. In January 2010 he was appointed IEEE Communications Society's director of journals. Prof. Bhargava has served as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and is a candidate for the office of president-elect in the forthcoming election of the IEEE Communications Society.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
 
For catering purposes it is essential to register by latest 3 June 2010. For further information and regstration, please contact:

Monya Badenhorst, University of Johannesburg
Tel: 011 559-4743, Cell: 083 770 5902, Email: [email protected]
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