THE 5TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2001)

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

September 17, 18 & 19 2001

First Announcement		January 26, 2001


ECC 2001 is the fifth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the
study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes
of ECC 2001 will be:
   - The discrete logarithm and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems.
   - Provably secure discrete log-based cryptographic protocols for
     encryption, signatures and key agreement.
   - Efficient software and hardware implementation of elliptic curve
     cryptosystems.
   - Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.

It is hoped that the meeting will encourage and stimulate further
research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve
cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between
mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic,
industry and government sectors.

There will be approximately 15 invited lectures (and no contributed
talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions. There
will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research
developments.


SPONSORS:
      Certicom Corp.
      Communications and Information Technology Ontario
      MasterCard International
      MITACS
      Mondex International Limited
      University of Waterloo


ORGANIZERS:
      Alfred Menezes         (Certicom Corp.)
      Edlyn Teske            (University of Waterloo)
      Scott Vanstone         (University of Waterloo)


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
      Dan Bernstein         (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
      Dan Bleichenbacher     (Lucent Technologies, USA)
      Dan Boneh              (Stanford University, USA)
      Dan Brown              (Certicom Corp., Canada)
      Gerhard Frey           (University of Essen, Germany)
      Pierrick Gaudry        (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
      Darrel Hankerson       (Auburn University, USA)
      Alfred Menezes         (Certicom Corp., Canada)
      Tatsuaki Okamoto       (NTT, Japan)
      Jean Marc Robert       (Gemplus, Canada)
      Alice Silverberg       (Ohio State University, USA)
      Brian Snow             (National Security Agency, USA)
      Jerome Solinas         (National Security Agency, USA)
      Annegret Weng          (University of Essen, Germany)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

The city of Waterloo is about 50-minute drive from Toronto
international airport. The second announcement will be made on
March 16, and will include registration and local (i.e., hotel &
transportation) information. If you did not receive this
announcement by email and would like to be added to the mailing
list for the second announcement, please send email to
ecc2001@math.uwaterloo.ca. The announcements are also available
from the web site  www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca

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	Frances Hannigan
	Editorial Assistant/CACR Administrative Assistant
	Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization
	Faculty of Mathematics
	University of Waterloo
	Waterloo, Ontario  N2L 3G1
	Ph:       (519) 888-4027, MC 5027
	Fax:      (519) 725-5441
	Email:    fhanniga@math.uwaterloo.ca
	Web-site: www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca