This workshop will provide, for the first time, a forum for scientists and engineers concerned with the realization of cryptography in such products.
Cryptography is the key tool for computer system security.
That means you have to add the security functions to an embedded system. This is a major challenge since devices such as palmtop organizers or wireless phones have far less computational capabilities than modern PCs. With the WPI workshop, cryptography returns to its roots. Paar says new uses for cryptography are limitless. But much of that information infrastructure will be wireless, and thus vulnerable.