Hopkins at Home: NSA's Involvement in the Design of the Data Encryption Standard

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When the National Bureau of Standards was tasked with developing a commercial encryption standard, they asked for help from the National Security Agency (NSA). Join Dickie George to discuss the development of the Data Encryption Standard and the politics that played a major role in the process. Learn about the IBM algorithm and the changes the NSA made to that algorithm, as well as the rationale behind those changes. George will also highlight academic response to the Data Encryption Standard and the open analytic work culminating in the Shamir and Biham attack on the Data Encryption Standard.

Please attend the event by joining the webcast on Sept. 1. Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #HopkinsatHome.

Richard M. (Dickie) George is the senior advisor for cyber security at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL). At APL, he works on a number of projects sponsored by the U.S. government and provides oversight on additional efforts. He works with senior management at APL on cyber strategy for protection of critical national systems. Prior to joining APL, he worked at the NSA as a mathematician from 1970 until his retirement in 2011. While at NSA, he wrote more than 125 technical papers on cryptomathematical subjects and served in a number of positions: analyst and technical director at the division, office, group, and directorate level. He served as the technical director of the Information Assurance Directorate for eight years until his retirement.