Eurocrypt '99 Preliminary Technical Program

For more information, see the conference web page at http://www.iacr.org/conferences/ec99/index.html.

Monday, 3.5.1999

Cryptanalysis I (chair: Jacques Stern)

Cryptanalysis of RSA with Private Key d < N^0.292
Dan Boneh and Glenn Durfee (Stanford University)
Cryptanalysis of Skipjack Reduced to 31 Rounds Using Impossible Differentials
Eli Biham, Alex Biryukov (Technion), and Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science

Hash Functions (chair: Jean-Jacques Quisquater)

Software Performance of Universal Hash Functions
Wim Nevelsteen and Bart Preneel (Universiteit Leuven)

Foundations I (chair: Claus Schnorr)

Lower Bounds for Oblivious Transfer Reductions
Yevgeniy Dodis and Silvio Micali (MIT)
On the (Im)possibility of Basing Oblivious Transfer and Bit Commitment on Weakened Security Assumptions
Ivan Damgard (University of Aarhus), Joe Kilian (NEC Research Institute), and Louis Salvail (University of Aarhus)
Conditional Oblivious Transfer and Timed-Release Encryption
Giovanni Di Crescenzo (University of California San Diego), Rafail Ostrovsky, and Sivaramakrishnan Rajagopalan (Bellcore)

Public Key (chair: Paul Van Oorschot)

An Efficient Threshold Public Key Cryptosystem Secure Against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack
Ran Canetti (IBM T.J. Watson) and Shafi Goldwasser (MIT)
Proving in Zero-Knowledge that a Number is the Product of Two Safe Primes
Jan Camenisch (University of Aarhus) and Markus Michels (Entrust Technologies Europe)
Secure Hash-and-Sign Signatures without the Random Oracle
Rosario Gennaro, Shai Halevi, and Tal Rabin (IBM T.J. Watson)

Watermarking and Fingerprinting (chair: Bruce Schneier)

A Note on the Limits of Collusion-Resistant Watermarks
Funda Ergun (Bell Laboratories), Joe Kilian (NEC Research Institute), and Ravi Kumar (IBM Almaden)
Coin-Based Anonymous Fingerprinting
Birgit Pfitzmann and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Universitat des Saarlandes)

Elliptic Curves (chair: Willi Meier)

On the Performance of Hyperelliptic Cryptosystems
Nigel Smart (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
Fast Elliptic Curve Algorithm Combining Frobenius Map and Table Reference to Adapt to Higher Characteristic
Tetsutaro Kobayashi, Hikaru Morita, Kunio Kobayashi, and Fumitaka Hoshino (NTT Laboratories)
Comparing the MOV and FR Reductions in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Ryuichi Harasawa, Junji Shikata, Joe Suzuki (Osaka University), and Hideki Imai (University of Tokyo)

New Schemes (chair: Dan Boneh)

Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Signature Schemes
Aviad Kipnis (NDS Technologies), Jacques Patarin, and Louis Goubin (Bull SmartCards and Terminals)
Public-Key Cryptosystems Based on Composite Degree Residuosity Classes
Pascal Paillier (Gemplus)
New Public Key Cryptosystems based on the Dependent--RSA Problems
David Pointcheval (Ecole Normale Superieure)

Block Ciphers (chair: Lars Knudsen)

Resistance Against General Iterated Attacks
Serge Vaudenay (Ecole Normale Superieure)
XOR and non-XOR Differential Probabilities
Philip Hawkes (Qualcomm International) and Luke O'Connor (IBM Zurich)
S-boxes with Controllable Nonlinearity
Jung Hee Cheon, Sungtaek Chee, and Choonsik Park (ETRI)

Distributed Cryptography (chair: Carlo Blundo)

Secure Distributed Key Generation for Discrete-Log Based Cryptosystems
Rosario Gennaro (IBM T.J. Watson), Stanislaw Jarecki (MIT), Hugo Krawczyk (Technion), and Tal Rabin (IBM T.J. Watson)
Efficient Multiparty Computations Secure Against an Adaptive Adversary
Ronald Cramer (ETH Zurich), Ivan Damgard, Stefan Dziembowski (Aarhus University), Martin Hirt (ETH Zurich), and Tal Rabin (IBM T.J. Watson)
Distributed Pseudo-Random Functions and KDCs
Moni Naor, Benny Pinkas, and Omer Reingold (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Cryptanalysis II (chair: Eli Biham)

Improved Fast Correlation Attacks on Stream Ciphers via Convolutional Codes
Thomas Johansson and Fredrik Jonsson (Lund University)
Cryptanalysis of An Identification Scheme Based on The Permuted Perceptron Problem
Lars R. Knudsen (University of Bergen) and Willi Meier (FH-Aargau)

Tools from Related Areas (chair Victor Shoup)

An Analysis of Exponentiation Based on Formal Languages
Luke O'Connor (IBM Zurich Research)
Dealing Necessary and Sufficient Numbers of Cards for Sharing a One-bit Secret Key
Takaaki Mizuki, Hiroki Shizuya, and Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku University)

IACR Business Meeting

Foundations II (chair: Claude Crepeau)

Computationally Private Information Retrieval with Polylogarithmic Communication
Christian Cachin (IBM Zurich), Silvio Micali (MIT), and Markus Stadler (Crypto AG)
On the Concurrent Composition of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Ransom Richardson (Groove Networks) and Joe Kilian (NEC Research Institute)
Pseudorandom Function Tribe Ensembles Based on One-Way Permutations: Improvements and Applications
Marc Fischlin (Universitat Frankfurt)

Broadcast and Multicast (chair: Yuliang Zheng)

Secure Communication in Broadcast Channels: the Answer to Franklin and Wright's Question
Yongge Wang and Yvo Desmedt (University of Wisconsin)
Efficient Communication-Storage Tradeoffs for Multicast Encryption
Ran Canetti (IBM T. J. Watson), Tal Malkin (MIT), and Kobbi Nissim (Weizmann Institute of Science)