[Cryptech Core] meeting with Mats Näslund (Ericsson)

[Leif Johansson]

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On 2014-04-25 14:35, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> Aloha!
> 
> Leif Johansson wrote:
>> Thanks to Jari I sat down with Mats Näslund (who is a principal 
>> researcher at Ericsson focusing on crypto) and two of his
>> colleagues to talk about cryptech earlier today.
> 
>> We had a very good meeting and Mats seemed genuinely interested
>> in the project. He suggested several ways in which he felt
>> Ericsson might be interested in supporting cryptech, including
>> pushing for E to contribute funding. There is lots of ground to
>> cover before we get to that point but have planed next steps.
> 
>> Mats also suggested some ideas around a collaboration E has with
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_S._L._M._Barreto who designed
>>  whirlpool.
> 
>> He also suggested another lead with a Russian crypto professor
>> who might be interested - I didn't get a name there but she had
>> recently been a guest professor at Ericsson.
> 
> Thanks for the meeting notes. And thanks to Jari for setting this
> up.
> 
> I have met Mats and knew some of the people in his group. (I have
> been invited speaker at one of their research days).
> 
> We applied together for a 7 Framework EU funding in a project that
> also included Barretos research group as well as the research group
> at SICS (led by Chrisrian Gehrmann) as well as researchers in
> Germany, Austria and France. And yes, Brasil was deemed to be part
> of EU. Paulo and his people would be great to get invloved.
> 
> I haven't talked to Christian about Cryptech but can do that. I'm 
> certain he and SICS would be interested.
> 
> 
>> Next step is that me and maybe Joachim will present the project
>> to the Ericsson core security group.
> 
> Did you talk about a timeframe for this?

The group meets 4:th monday of every month. This means this monday and
sometime in late may. Probably the latter since this monday is too soon
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