Dear all,
You are invited to the following school seminar.
Date/Time: 16th June 2026, 11:00-12:00
Venue: K-17, Level 1, Room 113
<u>Title: "The Perils and Pitfalls of Open-Source – a Bouncy Castle Perspective"</u>
Speaker: David Hook (KeyFactor)
Abstract: The Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs have now been in constant use worldwide since May 2000. Along the way there have been changes in the governance of the project, changes in the laws around cryptography and dual-use goods, and, with Quantum Computing starting to become an actual thing, changes in the algorithms and protocols that the APIs need to support. The talk will provide an overview on all of the above from the point of view of the Bouncy Castle project, as well as try and provide a general idea on where it appears things are heading.
Bio: David Hook is an active developer and co-founder of the Bouncy Castle cryptography project, now past its 26th year, and has been working in cyber security and cryptography since the mid 1990s. In addition to his development work with Bouncy Castle, David has also given presentations and tutorials on the Java Cryptography framework and on the use of the Bouncy Castle APIs, as well as writing several articles on the use of Bouncy Castle, with both Java and C#. His books include "Java Cryptography: Tools andTechniques", "Beginning Cryptography with Java" and the mini-ebook "BC FIPS in 100 Examples". He has led the efforts which have seen the Bouncy Castle APIs being certified to FIPS 140-2 and more recently certified to FIPS 140-3, as well as the effort to include the new PQC algorithms which originated from the NIST PQC competition. In 2012 David founded a Bouncy Castle consulting business, Crypto Workshop, which was subsequently bought by PrimeKey Solutions AB in 2019, who were then purchased by Keyfactor. David is currently a VP, Software Engineering, at Keyfactor, where he is officially working on Bouncy Castle support, development, and certification.
Dear All,
Thank you once again for choosing to do COMP3453/COMP6453. A few final reminders for the final exam tomorrow 11th May.
We enjoyed teaching you this course!
You must have received the time and venue of your final exam. In your exam environment you will have slides of the course. You won't have access to anything else. Hope you went through the practice test to get a feel of the exam. If you have ELS, you will receive extra time.
Do remember you zid and password. Please remember to bring your ID, water bottles and leave your mobile phone at home or in the bag in the silent mode. Anyone caught with their mobile phones even if they are switched off will receive a 0 and FL grade. Any form of cheating will result in the same outcome.
If you are sick please ask for special consideration. Please take enough rest tonight. Don't Panic!
Wish you all the best!
Nhi, Alex, Cameron, Varpreet, Sushmita
Hi all,
Due to that, we need to set up the exam environment for our exam on Monday - today will be the last day you can have access to the CSE sample exam lab environment.
Best,
COMP3/6453 teaching team