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IACR News item: 10 November 2011

Conference Report Conference Report

CHES 2011 was held at Todai-ji Cultural Center, Nara, Japan, from September 28 to October 1, 2011.

The program co-chairs were Bart Preneel and Tsuyoshi Takagi, and the general chair was Akashi Satoh. CHES 2011 received 119 submissions from 26 different countries, and 32 papers were selected for publication in the proceedings.

Two invited talks were given by Tetsuya Tominaga (NTT) and Ernie Brickell (Intel) on the topics "Standardization Works for Security of Electromagnetic Environment" and "Technologies to Improve Platform Security", respectively.

The conference banquet and the rump session were held at Hotel Nikko Nara on Friday evening. The best paper award was also presented during the banquet to Michael Hutter and Erich Wenger for their work "Fast Multi-Precision Multiplication for Public-Key Cryptography on Embedded Microprocessors".

All presentation slides for the technical sessions including the invited talks and the rump session can be found on the workshop website at http://www.iacr.org/workshops/ches/ches2011/program.html and http://www.iacr.org/workshops/ches/ches2011/rump.html, respectively.

The workshop ended successfully on October 1, having attracted 315 participants (60 being students), from 27 countries, mainly from Asia (162), Europe (98) and North America (47). We thank the sponsors for their generous support and contributions to the success of CHES 2011.

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