Signals Intelligence

Signals intelligence is one of the two gems of 20th-century intelligence. We will examine the field both structurally and historically, focusing on the changes in the field and the directions in which it is evolving.

Whitfield Diffie is the Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he has worked since 1991. Prior to this, Diffie held positions at Bell-Northern Research, Stanford University, and Mitre. Diffie is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily on the public policy aspects of security. He is the author, along with Susan Landau, of the book Privacy on the Line, which examines the politics of wiretapping and encryption.