HIC’s Varia Appears on Infosec Video Podcast

Mayank Varia, a BU cryptography researcher and co-director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security, earlier this month served as a guest on the Business Security Weekly video podcast, which is part of a podcast network covering news and issues of interest to information security researchers and professionals.

In the episode, Varia discussed his recent paper on crumple zones as well as the larger context of the ongoing “crypto-wars,” a debate between the government and the technology community on how best to balance privacy and security concerns in regard to the role of encryption in our society, and with law enforcement in particular.