News nybble: ROUGOL reminder – Cryptography and Security

A reminder has found its way into the RISCOSitory inbox about the next RISC OS User Group of London meeting, which takes place on Monday, 19th June, from around 7:45pm in the restaurant (upstairs) at The Blue-Eyed Maid, 173 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1HR.

Full details of the meeting can be found in the previous announcement but, to sum up, the guest speaker will be Dr. Nat Queen of Birmingham University, who will be talking to the group on the hot topics of cryptography and security. The talk will begin with a look at how encryption works, covering the difference between symmetric-key and public-key encryption, and on to the software in this area that available for RISC OS, including some of his own.

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