Lightning Talk: Why Cryptography is Important

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Cryptography is one of the most important aspects of computer security. It is a study of techniques for securing digital information, transactions, and distributed computations. Secure use of cryptography can defend your systems from different types of attacks, hence safeguarding confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your systems and information.

WIIFY: Make our software more secure as a software engineer.

Key Points:

• Cryptography is a complex field of study of mathematical techniques for securing digital information, systems, and distributed computations against adversarial attacks.
• Cryptography is important to us as we use it implicitly in our everyday life.
• Insecure use of cryptography will result in a lot of repercussions.
• Means to prevent cryptographic failures include using cryptographic algorithms that is proven to be secure, using the cryptographic algorithms in their correct ways, using cryptographic pseudorandom generator for security purposes, and etc.

Impact: Let audiences to have deeper understanding of cryptography, and know that cryptography is important to us, and know the way to prevent cryptographic failures.

Slides:
lighting talk 1.pdf