• Bell Aliant
• NHTCU & FBI
• Peter Allor
• Marcel van den Berg
• Rainer Böhme
• Bob Burls
• William Cheswick
• Carlos Cid
• Anton Chuvakin
• Dave De Coster
• Lord Errol
• Boris Goranov
• Martijn de Hamer
• Elly van den Heuvel
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman
• Bart Jacobs
• Sari Kajantie
• Mark Koek
• Jos Kuijpers
• Brett Lambo
• Eric Luiijf
• Scott McIntyre
• Milton Mueller
• Pär Österberg Medina
• Carol Overes
• Richard Perlotto
• David Rice
• Marcus Sachs
• Jacques Schuurman
• Alex Shipp
• Lance Spitzner
• Don Stikvoort
• Gigi Tagliapietra
• Jan Joris Vereijken
• Rémon Verkerk
• Randal Vickers
• David Watson
• Tillmann Werner
• Maurice Wessling
• Colin Whittaker
• Georg Wicherski
• Nicholas Witchell
• Dave Woutersen

Dr. Carlos Cid holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. After receiving his doctorate degree, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at RWTH-Aachen, and as a software engineer at an Irish network security start-up company, where he was involved in the design and development of hardware security modules and network security appliances. Dr. Cid joined the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2003, and is currently involved in teaching and research on several topics in Information Security and Mathematics. He is the co-author of a book focusing on the security of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and has had a number of articles published in specialist journals and presented in international conferences in the area of Information Security. Dr. Cid holds a SANS GSEC Gold security certification, and often works as independent consultant in the areas of cryptology, network and mobile communications security.

Cryptography is currently one of the most important tools in information security; cryptographic algorithms have a crucial role in securing digital data and communication systems, and are as a consequence ubiquitously deployed. Cryptography also finds itself at the edge of academic research and industrial application; it is currently a very active, thriving area of interdisciplinary academic research, and much of the current research effort is dedicated to the analysis of popular algorithms. Academics results are often not fully understood by security engineers and practitioners, and their practical relevance is often not accurately assessed. In this talk we examine a few recent developments in the analysis and trends in the deployment of cryptographic algorithms, and discuss how much (and whether) they threaten the practical use of cryptography in information security systems.