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1. I have been associated with Information Security for the last 30 years. I started as a mathematician working on the design and assessment of cryptographic algorithms for the UK Government at a time when cryptography was a Government monopoly. Since then I have been involved in the broader managerial and policy work with my GCHQ career culminating as Director of CESG from 1999 to 2002. During that time I have had ample opportunity to observe the evolution of cryptography as an academic discipline and also as a practical science (the two are often very different).
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Walton, R. (2003). Uses and Abuses of Cryptography. In: Paterson, K.G. (eds) Cryptography and Coding. Cryptography and Coding 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2898. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40974-8_11
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