This year marks the 20th year since the first RSA Conference. The first conference was called “Cryptography, Standards & Public Policy: the Fall ’91 Crypto Technology Update” The conference was prompted by a call from Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The 2005 keynote by Microsoft’s Bill Gates was a turning point at which RSA became an all-encompassing security forum. The conference has taken on important security issues, such as the battle against the Clipper Chip that would have given government encryption keys to decrypt communications secured by the chips.”]

