PKC '06 followed a series of very successful conferences that started in 1998 in Yokohama, Japan, whereas further meetings were held successively in Kamakura (Japan), Melbourne (Australia), Jeju Island (Korea), Paris (France), Miami (USA), Singapore and Les Diablerets (Switzerland). The conference became an IACR sponsored event (officially designated as an IACR workshop) in 2003 and has been sponsored by IACR continuously since then. The year 2006 found us all in New York City where the undertone of the conference was hummed in the relentless rhythm of the city that never sleeps.
This year's conference was the result of a collaborative effort by four of us: Moti Yung served as the conference and program chair. Moti orchestrated the whole project and lead the program committee's efforts in the careful selection of the 34 papers that you will find in this volume. Yevgeniy Dodis served as the general and sponsorship chair that coordinated the sponsorship efforts. Aggelos Kiayias served as the publicity and publication chair that tended to the conference's publicity aspects, web-site, submission and reviewing site as well as the editorial preparation of the present volume. Tal Malkin served as the general and local arrangements chair and was responsible for the very critical job of hosting PKC '06 at Columbia University.
The selection of papers for this year's program was a delicate and laborious task. PKC '06 received a total of 124 submissions by the day of the submission deadline, November 15, 2005. Each paper was refereed by at least four committee members who were frequently assisted by external reviewers. The online discussions together with the reviews that were posted in the online reviewing site, if printed, would require more than 450 pages of densely printed text. The present proceedings volume contains the revised versions of the accepted extended abstracts as submitted by the authors after an alloted three week revision period based on the program committee comments. The PKC '06 program committee had the pleasure to deliver this year's PKC Best Paper Award to Daniel Bleichenbacher and Alexander May for their advancement of RSA cryptanalysis in their paper entitled "New Attacks on RSA with Small Secret CRT-Exponents."
We would like to thank the program committee members as well as the external reviewers for their volunteered hard work invested in selecting the program. We thank the PKC steering committee for their support. We also wish to thank the following individuals: Shai Halevi for providing his webreview and submission system to be used for the conference and for providing technical support; the submission and reviewing-site administrator David Walluck as well as the other students of the CryptoDRM Lab at the University of Connecticut for providing technical support; and Michael Locasto for web-site administration support at Columbia University.
Finally big thanks are due to all authors of submitted papers whose quality contributions make this research area a pleasure to work in, and made this conference a possibility.
Publicity and Publication Chair | Aggelos Kiayias | |
General and Local Arrangements Chair | Tal Malkin |
Michel Abdalla | Shia-Yin Lin | |
Ben Adida | Yehuda Lindell | |
Luis von Ahn | Pierre Loidreau | |
Giuseppe Ateniese | Anna Lysyanskaya | |
Joonsang Baek | John Malone-Lee | |
Paulo Barreto | Gwenaëlle Martinet | |
Daniel Brown | Barbara Masucci | |
Jan Camenisch | Bernd Meyer | |
Ran Canetti | Ulrike Meyer | |
Melissa Chase | Peter Montgomery | |
Lily Chen | Kengo Mori | |
Liqun Chen | Volker Müller | |
Benoît Chevallier-Mames | James Muir | |
Chen-Kang Chu | Chanathip Namprempre | |
Mathieu Ciet | Phong Nguyen | |
Scott Contini | Jesper Buus Nielsen | |
Yang Cui | Satoshi Obana | |
Martin Döring | Daniel Page | |
Paolo D'Arco | Adriana Palacio | |
Michael De Mare | Josef Pieprzyk | |
Breno de Medeiros | David Pointcheval | |
Nenad Dedić | Geraint Price | |
Alex Dent | Karl Rubin | |
Glenn Durfee | Tomas Sander | |
Pooya Farshim | Oliver Schirokauer | |
Marc Fischlin | Katja Schmidt-Samoa | |
Jun Furukawa | Michael Scott | |
Steven Galbraith | Hovav Shacham | |
Clemente Galdi | Junji Shikata | |
David Galindo | Nigel Smart | |
Decio Gazzoni | Diana Smetters | |
Kristian Gjøsteen | Jerry Solinas | |
Dorian Goldfeld | Rainer Steinwandt | |
Philippe Golle | Willy Susilo | |
Vanessa Gratzer | Koutaro Suzuki | |
Shai Halevi | Isamu Teranishi | |
Wei Han | Nicholas Theriault | |
Darrel Hankerson | Richard M. Thomas | |
Anwar Hasan | Xiaojian Tian | |
Javier Herranz | Ivan Visconti | |
Jason Hinek | Guilin Wang | |
Dennis Hofheinz | Huaxiong Wang | |
Nicholas Hopper | Brent Waters | |
Toshiyuki Isshiki | Ralf-Philipp Weinmann | |
Stanislaw Jarecki | Enav Weinreb | |
Markus Kaiser | Kai Wirt | |
Jonathan Katz | Duncan Wong | |
Tim Kerins | David Woodruff | |
Eike Kiltz | Rui Zhang | |
Hugo Krawczyk | Yunlei Zhao | |
Sebastien Kunz-Jacques | Sheng Zhong | |
Kaoru Kurosawa | Huafei Zhu | |
Eonkyung Lee | Sebastien Zimmer | |
Xiangxue Li | ||
Benoît Libert |