Fast Software Encryption (FSE) 2006 is the thirteenth in a series of workshops on symmetric cryptography. It has been sponsored for the last five years by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and previous FSE workshops have been held around the world:
1993 | Cambridge, U.K. | 1994 | Leuven, Belgium | |
1996 | Cambridge, U.K. | 1997 | Haifa, Israel | |
1998 | Paris, France | 1999 | Rome, Italy | |
2000 | New York, U.S.A. | 2001 | Yokohama, Japan | |
2002 | Leuven, Belgium | 2003 | Lund, Sweden | |
2004 | New Delhi, India | 2005 | Paris, France |
The FSE workshop is devoted to research on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, including the design and analysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, analysis and evaluation tools, hash functions, and message authentication codes.
This year more than one hundred papers were submitted to FSE for the first time. After an extensive review by the program committee, 27 papers were presented at the workshop. Of course, the program would not have been complete without the invited speaker, and the presentation by Eli Biham on the early history of differential cryptanalysis was particularly appreciated by workshop attendees.
We are very grateful to the program committee and to all the external reviewers for their hard work. Each paper was refereed by at least three reviewers, with papers from program committee members receiving at least five reviews. The local organizing committee at Graz worked very hard and we particularly thank Melanie Blauensteiner, Christophe De Canniére, Sharif Ibrahim, Florian Mendel, Norbert Pramstaller, Christian Rechberger, and Michaela Tretter-Dragovic for their generous efforts and strong support. In Paris we are indebted to Henri Gilbert and Helena Handschuh who shared their valuable experience from FSE 2005 and to Côme Berbain and Olivier Billet for proof-reading and preparing the FSE pre-proceedings.
To close we thank the IACR secretariat, Kevin McCurley, and Shai Halevi for their
help with the registration process and we thank the
IACR for their support of FSE. We are grateful to
K.U. Leuven for their web-based review software
and we thank both France Telecom and Siemens, Munich for their
financial support of FSE 2006.
Matt Robshaw | France Telecom R&D | FSE 2006 Program Chair | ||
Vincent Rijmen | Graz University of Technology | FSE 2006 General Chair |
Frederik Armknecht | Daniel Augot | Elad Barkan | ||
Mihir Bellare | Côme Berbain | Dan Bernstein | ||
Eli Biham | Alex Biryukov | John Black | ||
Nick Bone | Christophe de Canniére | Pascale Charpin | ||
Frédéric Didier | Claus Diem | Martin Feldhofer | ||
Henri Gilbert | Louis Granboulan | Johann Groszschaedl | ||
Shai Halevi | Philip Hawkes | Martin Hell | ||
Christoph Herbst | Tetsu Iwata | Nathan Keller | ||
John Kelsey | Alexander Kholosha | Lars Knudsen | ||
Ted Krovetz | Ulrich Kühn | Simon Künzli | ||
Joe Lano | Cédric Lauradoux | Stefan Mangard | ||
Florian Mendel | Marine Minier | Sean Murphy | ||
Anderson Nascimento | Philippe Oechslin | Matthew Parker | ||
Ludovic Perret | Raphael C.-W. Phan | Norbert Pramstaller | ||
Christian Rechberger | Vincent Rijmen | Greg Rose | ||
Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen | Tsuneo Sato | Eric Schost | ||
Tom Shrimpton | Hervé Sibert | Dirk Stegemann | ||
John Steinberger | Michael Steiner | Stefan Tillich | ||
Jean-Pierre Tillich | Hiroki Ueda | Charlotte Vikkelso | ||
Johan Wallén | Dai Watanabe | Ralf-Philipp Weinmann | ||
Doug Whiting | Go Yamamoto | Kan Yasuda |