Henry Corrigan-Gibbs will review the history of Diffie-Hellman key exchange and how the NSA fought to keep the authors from publishing. He will give a bit of information that was not in his Stanford Magazine article on the topic. He will also briefly give an academic's perspective on cryptocurrencies.
Henry is a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on cryptography under Dan Boneh. His research has included work on Riposte, an anonymous messaging system for millions of users http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/220843961/
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