Cyberworld Security--the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Abstract

The 2004 Turing Lecture was held on 21 January 2004. It was given by Fred Piper, who is the joint author of Cipher Systems (1982), one of the first books to be published on the subject of protection of communications, Secure Speech Communications (1985), Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (2002), and an ISACA research monograph on digital signatures (1999). He has been a member of a number of DTI advisory committees and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Bletchley Park. The annual Turing Lecture, organized by the British Computer Society and the Institute of Electrical Engineering, commemorates the central seminal figure in the computer revolution, Alan Turing, whose outstanding originality and vision made it possible, in work originating in the mid 1930s. Although it is now hard to see what the limits of the computer revolution might eventually be, it was Turing himself who pointed out to us the very existence of such theoretical limitations.