Subject: [gaia] Encryption - Australia - New Law and Event to Discuss with IETFers and other folks

From: Jane Coffin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:16:26 +0000

All –

Australia has just released a new law on cyber/encryption. 

There will be an event next week in Australia to discuss the law with some pretty fabulous folks from across a broad spectrum of actors.

Speakers- 

Welcome remarks by Keith Besgrove from Internet Australia

Encryption explained by Dr. Vanessa Teague from the University of Melbourne

Framing the encryption debate by Dr. Hal Abelson from MIT.

Conversation among the experts led by Christine Runnegar, Senior Director, Internet Society

·         Hal Abelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and a founding director of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.

·         Linus Chang, Director of Scram Software Pty Ltd, an Australian cloud security provider

·         Mark Nottingham, engineer, member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) HTTP and QUIC Working Groups.

·         Vanessa Teague, cryptographer, University of Melbourne

·         Martin Thomson, engineer at Mozilla, member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), lead of the IAB Privacy and Security Program

·         Peter Tonoli, Board member of Electronic Frontier Australia; Director; Internet Australia; and Senior Technical Fellow, Blueprint for Free Speech

Please join in person if you are in Australia, and use the link below to register.  

Please join via live-stream if you are not there (likely the majority).

If you want to reach humans here at ISOC that are key to organizing the event/who know the issues  – ping Ryan Polk ([email-masked]) or Christine Runnegar ([email-masked]).

See this link for more info:  https://www.internetsociety.org/events/experts-session-on-encryption/ 

Jane

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