Cracking smartphones and doors with maths!
Cryptography is an important factor in our everyday lives because it protects our data while we navigate the internet. In this lecture, Prof Dr Gregor Leander explains how mathematics and cryptography work together to safeguard our digital and physical spaces.
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15.
April
2025
15. April 2025 – 15. April 2025
vhs Bochum , Gustav-Heinemann-Platz 2-6, 44787 Bochum, Lore-Agnes-Raum
Free
Speaker: Prof Dr Gregor Leander (Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Computer Science, Heisenberg Professorship for Symmetric Cryptography)
Cryptography – the invisible heroine of our everyday lives? After all, it guarantees the data security of our smartphones and other access points on a daily basis. But how secure are the data encryptions we rely on really?
With clear explanations and insights into current research projects, you will learn how maths and cryptography work together to safeguard our digital and physical spaces.
Registration makes planning easier, but is not necessary. Spontaneous participation is also possible.
Knowledge round security(ies): Public, private, digital – how (in)secure are we really?
The event is part of our event series: Knowledge Round Table!
Together with the Bochum Adult Education Centre and the Bochum City Library, we invite experts to the Knowledge Round (almost) every month to shed light on the current annual theme of the House of Knowledge from various perspectives and disciplines. In the year 2025, this is: Security!
Whether pandemics, resource scarcity, climate events, data theft or geopolitical conflicts – they all influence our sense of security. That is why we are asking ourselves the following question in the Knowledge Round 2025: Public, private, digital – how (in)secure are we really?
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