IACR News item: 11 November 2011
Conference Report
The 4th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2011, held July 5-7, 2011 in Dakar, Senegal. The Program Committee, aided by reports from 52 external reviewers, produced a total of 240 reviews in all. The 23 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They are organized in 10 topical sections on protocols, cryptanalysis, secret-key cryptography, efficient implementations, cryptographic schemes, algorithmic problems, elliptic curves, fault analysis, and security proofs. The program was completed with 3 invited talks by:
- Jens Groth on "Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs"
- Tatsuaki Okamoto on "Some Key Techniques on Pairing Vector Spaces" and
- Bart Preneel on "The NIST SHA-3 Competition: A Perspective on the Final Year"
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