RSA Conference in San Francisco

I got to attend the RSA 2005 Conference in February. It's the big conference for software security. Lots of CEO celebrities were there like Bill Gates from Microsoft, John Chambers from Cicso, and John Thompson from Symantec. So were the crypto gurus like Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir (the R and S from RSA) and Whit Diffie. Frank Abganale (the guy Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me if You Can) gave a rousing speech, more about redemption than how to catch the con man. Pictured above is Simon Singh who wrote a couple of my favorite books, including The Code Book which traces the history of codes and cryptography.