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IACR Newsletter
Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 1999.
Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research
Christian Cachin, Editor
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http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/
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Contents
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* Editorial
* Eurocrypt 2000 - Call for Papers
* Crypto '99 Rump Session
* 1999 Elections: Candidates
* IACR Cryptology e-Print Server Announcement
* Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt '99
* Announcements
+ SIGINT in Europe During the Cold War
+ DIMACS Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
+ New Reports in the Theory of Cryptography Library
* New Books
* Open Position
* Calender of Events in Cryptology
* IACR Contact Information
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Editorial
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Welcome to the fourth electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter!
The biggest news in this issue, at least in my view, is the
announcement of the ``IACR Cryptology e-Print Server.'' This service
will make research results accessible faster and increase interaction
and exchange of ideas in the field.
I may also direct your attention to the current IACR elections and
upcoming conferences. Next year will be the first year with three
IACR-sponsored cryptography conferences:
* Eurocrypt in Bruges/Brugge (Belgium), May 14-18;
* Crypto in (Santa Barbara) , August 20-24;
* Asiacrypt in Kyoto (Japan), December 3-7.
Conferences in 2001: Eurocrypt will be held in Innsbruck, Austria
(tentatively, May 6-10); program chair is Birgit Pfitzmann
(pfitzmann@cs.uni-sb.de) and general chair is Reinhard Posch
(Reinhard.Posch@iaik.at). For Crypto 2001 (tentatively, August 19-23),
the program chair is Joe Kilian and general chair is Dave Balenson.
For more information about upcoming workshops and confereneces, check
the Calendar section or www.iacr.org/events/!
If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by Email and would like
to receive it in the future, then check out your Email address in the
IACR member list that has been mailed in February 1999.
IACR can only provide you with accurate information if you contribute
your input. Please send in announcements of workshops, conferences,
calls for papers, or any other item of interest to IACR members. The
address for all submissions to the Newsletter and Calendar is
newsletter@iacr.org
The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in
February. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as
soon as possible.
Christian Cachin
IACR Newsletter Editor
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Eurocrypt 2000
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E U R O C R Y P T 2 0 0 0
Bruges (Brugge), Belgium, May 14-18, 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS
General Information: Original papers on all technical aspects of
cryptology are solicited for submission to Eurocrypt 2000, the 19th
Annual Eurocrypt Conference. Eurocrypt 2000 is organized by the
International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). For more
information, access http://www.iacr.org/.
Instructions for authors: Authors are strongly encouraged to submit
their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic
submission procedure will appear by September 15, 1999 at
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/eurocrypt2000/. Electronic
submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by November
3, 1999, 17:00 MET in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit
electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 20 copies of an
anonymous paper (double-sided copies preferred) to the Program Chair
at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the
Program Chair on or before November 3, 1999 (or postmarked by October
26, 1999, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and
submissions by fax will not be considered. The cover letter should
contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the
authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and
postal addresses.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the
authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any
other conference or workshop with proceedings. The paper must be
anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or
obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract,
and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the
contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist
reader. The paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the
bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in
total, using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. Committee
members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be
intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines
risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Notification of
acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by January 26, 2000.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be
presented at the conference.
Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be
available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation
of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted
papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on March
1, 2000.
Submission: November 3, 1999 Acceptance: January 26, 2000 Proceedings
version: March 1,2000
Program Committee:
Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway Univ. of London, UK)
Dan Boneh (Stanford Univ., USA)
Christian Cachin (IBM Research, Switzerland)
Don Coppersmith (IBM Research, USA)
Ronald Cramer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Hans Dobbertin (BSI, Germany)
Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, USA)
Thomas Johansson (Lund Univ., Sweden)
Joe Kilian (NEC Research Institute, USA)
Lars Knudsen (Univ. of Bergen, Norway) Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi,
Japan)
Alfred Menezes (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Kaisa Nyberg (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
Paul van Oorschot (Entrust Technologies, Canada)
Torben Pedersen (Cryptomathic, Denmark)
David Pointcheval (ENS, France)
Bart Preneel (chair) (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Moti Yung (Certco, USA)
Address for non-electronic submissions:
Bart Preneel Program Chair, Eurocrypt 2000
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dept. Electrical Engineering-ESAT
Kard. Mercierlaan 94
B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM
Phone: +32 16 32 11 48
Fax: +32 16 32 19 86
E-mail: bart.preneel@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
For other information contact:
Joos Vandewalle, General Chair, Eurocrypt 2000
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dept. Electrical Engineering-ESAT
Kard. Mercierlaan 94
B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM
Phone: +32 16 32 10 50
Fax: +32 16 32 19 69
E-mail: eurocrypt2000@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Conference
URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/eurocrypt2000/
Stipends: A limited number of stipends are available to those
unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose
papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are
encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for
stipends should be addressed to the General Chair.
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Crypto '99 Rump Session Schedule
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Stuart Haber Presiding
Session I
7:00 Introduction
Stuart Haber
7:03 Prize awards for Hasty Pudding analysis
Rich Schroeppel
7:10 Belgian remarks on U.S. pudding
Carl D'Halluin, Gert Bijnens, Bart Preneel, Vincent Rijmen
7:14 An attack on ISO 9786-1
Don Coppersmith, Shai Halevi, Charanjit Jutla
7:21 FPGA: A practical tool for cryptanalysis with running examples
F. Koeune, J.-J. Quisquater, R. Sebastien, J.-P. David, T.
Gilmont, J.-D. Legat
7:25 Quadruple DES
Paul Kocher
7:28 Crypto law & export control update
John Gilmore (& Cindy Cohn)
7:35 Fast precomputation for discrete logarithm cryptosystems
C.P. Schnorr
7:40 Issues in tamper resistance
Benjamin Jun
7:44 Random number generator failure in provably secure encryption
schemes
William Whyte, Burt Kaliski
7:50 (1) Arms export: Blazonry for dummies (2) Oenocryptology
Don Beaver
7:56-8:10 Break
Session II
8:10 Fun with cryptography: How not to set a final exam question
G. Agnew
8:15 Signature schemes based on the strong RSA assumption
Ronald Cramer, Victor Shoup
8:19 Constructions of universal hash families from algebraic curves
over finite fields
Chaoping Xing, Huaxiong Wang, Kwok Yan Lam
8:26 What is the PGP key of Bill Gates? A practical experiment with
key servers J.-J. Quisquater
8:30 How to solve a system of equations inside IDEA
E.G. Giessmann, G. Lassmann
8:32 Keeping secrets using .o files
Steve Meyer
8:37 Computer license plates
Thomas Cusick
8:41 A probabilistic poly-time framework for protocol analysis
P. Lincoln, J. Mitchell, M. Mitchell, A. Scedrov
8:46 Cross-encryption
Rosario Gennaro, Shai Halevi, Tal Rabin
8:52 New forgeries with Rabin-like cryptosystems
J.-S. Coron, M. Joye, J.-J. Quisquater
8:57 Cracking Kryptos (well, almost)
Jim Gillogly
9:01 Introducing the T-class of SOBER stream ciphers
Greg Rose, Philip Hawkes
9:06 Studying cycles in RC4
Chris Hall
9:11 Next-generation mobile phone algorithms
Greg Rose
9:15-9:30 Break
Session III
9:30 The P-problem: a solved instance and its implications
Detlef Huehnlein
9:33 Player elimination in distributed protocols: Can resilience be
for free?
Martin Hirt, Ueli Maurer, Bartosz Przydatek
9:39 Efficient separable fair contract signing schemes based on
standard signatures
Jan Camenisch, Markus Michels
9:45 Consistency concerns for fair exchange
Paul Syverson
9:51 OEF using a successive extension
Kazumaro Aoki, Fumitaka Hoshino, Tetsutaro Kobayashi
9:54 Tricks for a better efficiency of authentication protocols
Marc Girault
9:58 Public-key cryptography and password protocols: The multi-user
case
Maurizio Boyarsky (presented by Cynthia Dwork)
10:03 Correlated coins and applications to game theory
Yevgeniy Dodis, Shai Halevi, Tal Rabin
10:09 Complete characterization of security notions for probabilistic
private-key encryption
Jonathan Katz, Moti Yung
10:14 Non-malleable non-interactive zero knowledge and adaptive
chosen-ciphertext security
Amit Sahai
10:16 A secure e-mail voting scheme with trusted authorities for one
occasion
Jozsef Lukovics
10:19 Riffle-shuffle and gray-code as block cipher components
Jayant Shukla
10:22 A new blind signature scheme
Pascal Paillier
10:26 Efficient dynamic traitor tracing
Omer Berkman, Michal Parnas, Jiri Sgall
10:31 On full linear (k, n) traceability schemes
K. Kurosawa, M. Burmester, Y. Desmedt
10:35 A new measure of cryptanalytic strength
Bruce Schneier
10:38 Towards a simple distributed undeniable method of achieving
robustly threshold-untraceable indistinguishability
Michael Richardson
10:40 END
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1999 Elections: Candidates
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Gilles Brassard
(no statement)
Kwangjo Kim
Based on my previous experiences as a program co-chair of
Asiacrypt '96 and program committee member of eleven international
conferences, I will establish the coming IACR-sponsored Asiacrypt
to be as prestigious as Crypto and Eurocrypt, and do my best to
promote and vitalize cryptologic research activities throughout
the world.
Ueli Maurer
I will continue to focus on all scientific aspects relevant to
IACR (conferences, publications, electronic and conventional),
helping IACR to improve its scientific standing. I will further
contribute to the promotion of a good relationship between
academic research and the commercial world.
Bart Preneel
Having first been a member of the IACR in 1988, I would like to
continue serving as a Director with the objective of promoting
research, stimulating young people to enter our fascinating field,
and balancing the interests of research and applied cryptology.
See www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~preneel for a longer statement.
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
(no statement)
Serge Vaudenay
I am willing to serve IACR in order to promote academic research
in cooperation with industry.
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IACR Nominations Committee (see www.iacr.org/bod.html for addresses):
Eli Biham
Matt Franklin (Chair)
Peter Landrock (Returning Officer)
Positions for this Election:
3 Directors January 2000 - December 2002
Incumbents:
Gilles Brassard
Ueli Maurer
Bart Preneel
Ballots will be mailed by OCTOBER 1, 1999.
Ballots must be mailed to be received by the Returning Officer in the
official envelopes by NOVEMBER 15, 1999.
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IACR Cryptology e-Print Server Announcement
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Background
So far IACR's publishing activities included the Journal of Cryptology
and the Crypto/Eurocrypt conference volumes. The journal represents
the oldest and most established form of scientific publication;
conferences and their proceedings have the advantage of faster
publication. For IACR and cryptology, however, the publication delay
for a new result can easily be half a year or more. This will soon
change with the introduction of the IACR cryptology e-print server.
In the recent years, many people have started to publish work on their
personal webpages, either as a supplement to the conventional methods
or uniquely publishing work in this way. Other societies have also
started electronic servers for preprints, the largest of which is the
Los Alamos ``XXX e-print archive'' (xxx.lanl.gov), started by
physicists. A small preprint server for cryptology exists since 1996
(the ``Theory of Cryptology Library'', started by Oded Goldreich,
currently hosted at UCSD).
The IACR Cryptology e-Print Server
The IACR board of directors has decided at their meeting at Crypto '99
to set up a preprint server for cryptology. It will be called the IACR
cryptology e-print server.
``e-print server'' stands for the new features of papers published
there: electronically distributed, rapidly published, recent work,
immediately accessible. However, an e-print server is different from
other scientific forms of publishing because work is placed there by
the authors and does undergo almost no refereeing. Work is only
superficially checked to fall in the areas of interest.
Mihir Bellare at UCSD has kindly volunteered to host the eprint server
at UCSD. He and Bennett Yee have been hosting the ``Theory of
Cryptology Library'' at UCSD; the current plan is to integrate this
library in the new server. We are about to set up the software and it
is expected that the server is operational later this year. The URL
will be http://eprint.iacr.org. In any case, check out
http://www.iacr.org for more information!
Christian Cachin
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Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt '99
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Board of Directors Meeting
EuroCrypt '99
Prague
2 May 1999
Preface:
On 20 March 1999, Journal Editor Feigenbaum brought to the attention of the
Board a problem wherein papers accepted for a special issue of the Journal
far
exceeded the normal page count for a single issue. Following a discussion
by e-mail, the Board approved the following proposal submitted by
Feigenbaum by a
vote of 10 to 2 with 1 abstention.
I propose that the Board approve the expenditure of $20,000 for an
exceptionally long "special issue" of the Journal of Cryptology. This
issue will probably be one of the four issues of volume 13 (2000), but
there is a chance that it will be the last issue of volume 12 (1999). It
will be roughly the size of three normal issues (perhaps slightly larger).
The rest of the issues in volume 13 (or 12) will be normal-sized issues.
The subject of the special issue is secure multi-party function evaluation,
and the editorial board member in charge of it is Oded Goldreich. The
$20,000 covers all production, printing, and mailing costs and will thus
have no effect on the price that Springer charges subscribers, including
libraries, for J. Cryptology.
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The Board President called the meeting to order at 10:06am.
Present were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Franklin, Hruby,
Landrock, Maurer, McCurley, E. Okamoto, Preneel, Upton, and Van Oorschot.
Proxies were held for Beaver by McCurley, for Feigenbaum by Upton, for T.
Okamoto by Maurer, and for Vandewalle by Preneel.
It was noted that there would be no report this meeting from Journal Editor
Feigenbaum but a report was promised for the Board meeting in August.
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Minutes of the 23 August 1998 meeting were approved with modifications.
Motion by Preneel seconded by Berson carried 9 to 0.
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EuroCrypt '99 General Chair Hruby reported on the conference. The
conference budget was within expected bounds. The budget anticipated 380
attendees. At that point, 373 had registered. [Final registration was
383.] Data was provided for 375 registrants (sic) among whom 315 were full
charge (146 early and 169 late) and 60 were student rate (38 early and 22
late).
$23,000 had been advanced by the IACR, of which $10,000 was returned to the
IACR, $10,000 was used for Program Committee expenses, and $2,400 was used
for booking the concert. Clark asked about totals and was told that the
$10,000 returned to the IACR was borrowed at a rate of approximately 30
Czech Koruna per U.S. Dollar and returned to the IACR at a rate of
approximately 35 Czech Koruna per U.S. Dollar but that the conference was
expected to produce s surplus of approximately $10,000.
Clark praised ITC (local arrangements company) for their promptness and
general competence at organization. All agreed with applause. The quality
of the local organization precluded any need for a visit from the
Secretariat and thereby reduced costs.
Upton asked whether the student registration count was typical and was told
that 10% students was the normal count.
McCurley expressed concern about the lack of growth in attendance numbers
over recent years.
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A EuroCrypt 2000 status report was given by Preneel.
The conference will be held in Bruges, Belgium, 14-18 May 2000. Joos
Vandewalle will be the General Chair and Bart Preneel will be the Program
Chair.
Two sheets of information were distributed on planning and budget. Some
information can be obtained at
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/eurocrypt2000/ and at
http://www.brugge.be/ and http://www.brugge.be/toerisme/en/meetinge.htm.
[Note the last URL is corrected from the information sheet.]
The conference sessions will be in a flat lecture room with a 500-person
capacity. All hotels will be in the old city within walking distance from
the conference site. The city has 1500 hotel rooms that generally have no
vacancy in May. 300 three and four star hotel rooms have already been
booked. 200 two star hotel and bed & breakfast rooms are in the process of
being booked. Advanced payment of first night's hotel will be necessary.
A professional conference organizer is now doing the work for $15 per
participant and a fixed fee of $3,000 rather than the typical fee of 8% on
hotel bookings. There are a variety of hotel booking and payment options
for participants. Landrock suggested that individuals handle their own
booking. McCurley seconded this but expressed concern that some
participants might find no hotels available. Clark suggested that the
Secretariat can co-ordinate booking. Upton expressed that the intent was
to have central booking. Van Oorschot questioned the effect on the
registration forms. Upton suggested offloading work to the secretariat
whenever possible. Landrock suggested budgeting for 400 participants.
Preneel suggested pre-booking Hotel Montanus for Board members and
encouraged all Board members to stay at this hotel.
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AsiaCrypt Steering Committee Chair E. Okamoto presented details on upcoming
AsiaCrypt conferences.
AsiaCrypt '99 will be in Singapore. It is not sponsored by the IACR. Hotel
costs will be approximately $80 per night and registration will be
approximately $400.
AsiaCrypt 2000 will be held in Kioto Japan, 3-7 Dec 2000. It is sponsored
by the IACR, and details will be forthcoming at the Crypto meeting in
August.
AsiaCrypt 2001 is being recommended for Taiwan together with possible
General Chair and Program Chair recommendations.
McCurley questioned when final decisions could be made for the General Chair
and Program Chair for AsiaCrypt 2001. Consensus was that the current
timing should be continued.
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A report on EuroCrypt 2001 proposals was given by Clark.
There are no active proposals for EuroCrypt 2001.
A planned proposal for Villach, Austria (which was later moved to Vienna
because of logistic concerns) was withdrawn two days prior to the board
meeting. It was conjectured that the organizers were dissatisfied with the
apparent requirement that the venue be changed from Villach to Vienna.
Clark discussed plans to solicit bids from potential organizers in Italy,
U.K. (Bath), Greece, Sweden, Norway, U.K. (Scotland), Ireland, Netherlands,
and Poland.
McCurley suggested that the IACR web site resume the (discontinued)
solicitation of proposals for EuroCrypt hosts.
Clark promised to vigorously pursue the U.K.-Bath option and expressed
concerns that the Santa Barbara meeting might be too late to commit to a
site.
McCurley wondered if a permanent conference coordinator position within the
Board would make sense.
Berson suggested that European Board members take the lead in this regard.
Landrock and Clark agreed to serve as primary Board contacts for proposals.
Clark asked for Board consensus that proposals must be able to accommodate
500 participants and that hotel accommodations should be near the
conference venue.
Berson asked whether Israel is, for these purposes, part of Europe. The
consensus was that it is.
McCurley urged that the local organizer be a regular member of the crypto
"community".
McCurley asked whether the Board should appoint the Program Chair for
EuroCrypt independent of the selection of the local venue.
Maurer urged that the Board should select the Program Chair.
Landrock agreed to make a presentation at the Business Meeting to solicit
proposals.
Van Oorschot suggested that the Board consider Program Chair proposals as
part of any bids but that such proposals not be required and that the same
be true for AsiaCrypt. [Clarification: We should make it clear that
submitters of bids are expected to honor their commitment even if their
recommendation for Program Chair is rejected.]
It was requested that an announcement be made to all EuroCrypt participants
that the Business Meeting would immediately follow the final technical talk
on Wednesday.
McCurley suggested that discussion of Program Chairs be held at the Santa
Barbara Board meeting.
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Preneel initiated a discussion about the relationship between the Fast
Software Encryption Workshop (FSE) and the IACR. He asked that the IACR
hold copyrights for FSE publications and asked whether FSE might enjoy the
same relationship with the IACR that used to be enjoyed by AsiaCrypt.
McCurley asked to what extent the IACR should affiliate with other
conferences and with how many other conferences. He also asked about the
intellectual content responsibility for copyrights owned by the IACR.
Berson observed that copyright ownership does not imply endorsement of
content.
Landrock suggested that the IACR support FSE and that other conferences be
considered on a case-by-case basis.
McCurley told of meeting with Springer-Verlag regarding the contract for the
Journal but that no contract yet exists for IACR proceedings. He said that
the IACR owns copyrights for EuroCrypt '99 papers and that Springer-Verlag
would have exclusive publication rights for the first three years and
non-exclusive rights thereafter.
Biham noted that the current copyright agreements do not mention journal
publication of related results.
McCurley expressed a dislike for "duplicate" publication.
Biham suggested that the IACR not enforce its copyright against journals.
Benaloh asked whether the IACR should pledge to not enforce copyrights
against journals.
Cachin urged that no such pledge be included within the copyright form.
Biham asked how much a publication must be changed to constitute a new work.
Clark expressed a preference to not make any explicit licensing policy and
suggested that licensing is the correct alternative to copyright
re-assignment.
Berson voiced the intent of IACR to be a benevolent copyright holder.
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The proposal that IACR be willing to become the copyright holder for FSE
publications was made by Preneel and seconded by Maurer. It carried 15 to
0.
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Berson asked that IACR strategic planning include the long-term
relationships between the IACR and other conferences.
McCurley disapproved of the IACR taking direct responsibilities for other
conferences asserting that the purpose of the IACR is to support the
scientific activities of its members by maintaining the current
conferences, journal, and newsletter.
Clark offered that strategic planning is beyond this kind of operational
planning and should include long-term goals and directions of the IACR.
Berson suggested considering the formation of an organizing committee and
seeking better used of technologies such as conference calling to
facilitate Board discussions.
McCurley expressed the opinion that the Board has dealt effectively with
these matters in the past with the current structure.
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At this point the meeting recessed for lunch.
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During and after lunch, various strategic items and topics of interest to
individual members were discussed, and new Board members were asked to tell
what issues were most important to them.
McCurley stated his view of IACR's mission was to make sure that conferences
run smoothly and to maintain scientific integrity. He also indicated his
strong interest in moving towards electronic publishing.
Cachin expressed an interest in having an electronic preprint server for
cryptographic publications.
McCurley voiced potential problems with copyrights of materials on a
preprint server and questioned who would manage it. He also questioned the
utility of having yet another place to search for papers.
Cachin expressed an opinion that administration would be minimal but
acknowledged possible complications with respect to anonymous submissions
and copyrights.
Maurer asked how we can best support the field.
Benaloh asked whether we should accept more papers and noted that the
original purpose of anonymity was to avoid favoritism.
Clark suggested a triage of papers into three categories: archival papers,
recent papers (about one year old), and late-breaking papers, and he
suggested that different mechanisms might be best suited for each category.
Maurer suggested considering bifurcating crypto into a Theoretical
Cryptography conference and applied conferences.
Preneel expressed a preference against this kind of specialization.
McCurley asked that there be a concrete proposal on a preprint server.
Cachin recounted many of the disparate issues that this touches upon.
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A discussion then followed on the topic of anonymous submissions.
McCurley noted that in a recent Business meeting, the membership voted to
maintain the anonymous submission policy.
Preneel said that a recent poll among Program Committee members was nearly
evenly divided on the issue.
Biham asked what obligations the authors had to not announce their results
during the Program Committee review process.
After discussion of some extreme examples (such as e-mailing an unsolicited,
non-anonymous copy of a submission to all Program Committee members),
Preneel suggested a "push versus pull" distinction wherein authors should
feel free to post copies of their work on web pages, preprint servers, and
the like but should not mail out unsolicited copies to Committee members.
Upton urged that we make clear that we don't discourage non-anonymous
distribution of submissions.
Berson suggested that anonymous submissions may no longer be practical.
Clark offered a proposal that we clarify the Program Committee guidelines to
specify that we do not discourage distribution and re-visit the issue of
anonymous submissions at the next EuroCrypt Board meeting.
McCurley expressed concerns about changing the policy back and forth and
agreed to put the topic on the agenda for the Santa Barbara Board meeting.
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Biham then raised the issue of creating a server for making technical
reports available for fast distribution.
McCurley asserted that Springer-Verlag would object to this.
Cachin expressed the opinion that such a server would be helpful to the
research community.
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Franklin listed important issues to him as maintaining IACR excellence,
abolishing anonymous submissions, and observing the experiences of other
institutions with regard to electronic publishing and distribution with an
eye towards updating IACR policies.
Hruby offered that a publications server would facilitate updates to
publications.
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Benaloh listed maintenance of IACR excellence as his paramount issue and
expressed some concerns over the Board's recent decision-making processes.
Clark suggested that the decision-making processes need refinement and that
e-mail is often the wrong medium.
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McCurley suggested that the Board form a sub-committee to look more
carefully at publishing issues.
A sub-committee was formed consisting of McCurley, Biham, Cachin, and
(pending her consent) Feigenbaum and charged with delivering a report at
the Santa Barbara Board meeting.
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Preneel then raised the issue of awards and honors. He said that he had
found no consensus on whether to establish best paper awards and urged that
we should establish clear mechanisms for inviting IACR Distinguished
Lectures.
Maurer asked whether the Board should decide on Distinguished Lecturers.
Preneel asserted that clear and regular procedures are paramount.
Van Oorschot said that we need to know what procedures, if any, exist.
Maurer suggested that Preneel should prepare a formal proposal for the Santa
Barbara Board meeting.
Benaloh expressed the opinion that only the Board should award Distinguished
Lecture awards. This was confirmed as the consensus of the Board, and
Maurer agreed to include this conclusion in the Program Chair guidelines.
McCurley suggested that we have an IACR Distinguished Lecture at AsiaCrypt
2000 as part of the first IACR sponsored AsiaCrypt.
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A proposal was offered by Preneel and seconded by Berson that candidates for
IACR Distinguished Lecturer be nominated and submitted to the IACR
president by August 1 of each year and that the Board may make a selection
from among those nominated. The proposal carried 15 to 0.
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McCurley then raised the issue of IACR elections.
Clark suggested that the Secretariat can and should handle the distribution
and collection of election ballots.
Landrock, Biham, and Franklin agreed to serve on the election committee.
Benaloh asked whether is was necessary to vote on the By-Laws again to
correct problems introduced by printing errors in last year's amendments.
The consensus of the Board was that another vote was unnecessary.
Preneel asked that the By-Laws be maintained in ASCII format.
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McCurley then raised the issue of how to best use and oversee the job of
IACR Membership Secretary.
Clark volunteered to serve as liaison to co-ordinate Board issues with the
Membership Secretary.
Upton expressed the view that we need closer contact with the Membership
Secretary and suggested that the Membership Secretary either be a member of
the Board or be directly overseen by a single member of the Board.
Clark commented that Y2K compliance was going well but that updated versions
of Access software would be necessary to achieve compliance.
Benaloh offered to obtain and deliver copies of Access 2000 to Clark,
Preneel, and the Membership Secretary.
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Upton then presented a financial report stating that both the EuroCrypt and
Crypto conferences returned surpluses of between $10,000 and $20,000 in
1998, that total IACR reserves were now in excess of $200,000, and that
1998 tax filing was underway. Upton stated that he did not anticipate
recommending an increase in IACR member dues.
McCurley asked that a more detailed report of IACR finances be published in
the Newsletter.
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Cachin then reported on the Newsletter.
McCurley noted that Cachin had assumed administration of the IACR Web Site.
Congratulations were given by all.
Cachin reported that the Newsletter has been moved to the Web Site and
solicited conference reports for the Newsletter.
Clark asked how many paper copies of the Newsletter were being distributed.
Cachin answered that anyone who wishes may ask the Membership Secretary to
print and mail a copy of the Newsletter.
Clark expressed the opinion that the Membership Secretary has provided good
service to the IACR and noted the importance of members keeping their
addresses current with the Membership Secretary.
Hruby stated that 10% of this year's EuroCrypt announcements were returned
by the postal service as undeliverable.
McCurley offered thanks to Cachin for his efforts. Applause was given by
all.
McCurley offered thanks to Upton for his efforts. Applause was given by
all.
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Since Beaver was absent, no report on Crypto '99 was presented.
Cachin noted that no Call For Participation had yet been distributed for
Crypto '99.
[Beaver subsequently said that he was following the usual schedule by not
sending out registration materials too early.]
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Franklin reported that Crypto 2000 planning was proceeding uneventfully.
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McCurley suggested that there be an integrated discussion at the Santa
Barbara Board meeting to decide on Program Chair lists and other issues for
EuroCrypt, Crypto, and AsiaCrypt in 2001.
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McCurley then gave an update on the status of the CD-ROM of past Crypto and
EuroCrypt proceedings. He said that after much work, the CD-ROM was
complete and had been delivered to Springer-Verlag for reproduction and
distribution and that copies would be available for sale during this
conference. He said that Springer-Verlag had agreed to send out two copies
to everyone who had ordered one in recompense for the production delays.
Clark noted that the address labels had become out of date and urged that
updates be sent to iacrmem@iacr.org by May 12 to ensure that the CD-ROMs
are sent to current addresses.
Clark also noted the outstanding, "super-human" work done by McCurley on the
CD-ROM. Applause was given by all.
Clark also asked that Springer-Verlag be urged to make the CD-ROM available
to IACR members at the original IACR discounted price.
In addition, Clark noted that CD-ROM sales through Amazon.com obtained via
an IACR link could be eligible for a 5-15% kickback to IACR. He also
suggested that one of the copies available for sale be held for a quality
control check.
[Note: It was subsequently discovered that there were problems with the
CD-ROMs on some platforms, and correction before distribution was
anticipated. Also Clark obtained a commitment from Springer-Verlag to
offer the CD-ROMs for sale at a discounted price.]
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A proposal was offered by Van Oorschot and seconded by Upton that decisions
made by e-mail should be included in the following Board meeting minutes.
The proposal carried 15 to 0.
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A brief discussion then followed about items to be included in the Business
meeting.
Berson asked that attendees be reminded that they are, unless they've
specifically asked not to be, IACR members.
McCurley stated that he would remind members of the general IACR functions,
announce upcoming conferences and meetings, update members on the CD-ROM and
the May 12 deadline for updating addresses, remind members of the
Newsletter submission deadline of May 31, report that both IACR sponsored
conferences produced surpluses during the prior year, and tell new members
how they could receive membership for the 1999 calendar year.
________________________________________________________________________
Action items noted by McCurley included EuroCrypt 2001 site selection,
upcoming IACR elections, and distribution of the CD-ROM.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then moved to adjourn. The motion was seconded by Clark and
carried unanimously at 4:49pm.
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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Announcements
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SIGINT in Europe During the Cold War
===========================================================================
More and more students of the Cold War begin to realize that the
intelligence communities played an important role during the Cold War. In
recent years in particular the importance of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
has been stressed and especially the capabilities and possibilities of
reading and deciphering diplomatic, military, commercial and other
Communications of other nations.
This growing awareness of the importance of intelligence applies not only
to the activities of the big services but also to those of the smaller
nations like for example the Netherlands. For this exact reason a couple of
years ago the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) was
established in which academics and (former and still active) members of the
Netherlands intelligence community work together in order to promote
research into the history of Dutch intelligence communities. This growing
interest had led in Holland to publications dealing with the history of the
Dutch internal security service (1995), the Dutch Navy Intelligence (1997)
and the Netherlands foreign intelligence service (November 1998).
As honorary secretary of the NISA it is my pleasure to announce that the
NISA will host an international conference dealing with
THE IMPORTANCE OF SIGINT IN WESTERN EUROPE IN THE COLD WAR
This conference with a particular emphasis on Sigint and the Northwestern
European nations will take place on Saturday November 27 in Amsterdam.
The line up of the program is as follows:
SPEAKERS:
09.45: Opening of the Conference and Welcome to the
speakers and participants
10.00: Matthew Aid (United States, historian)
Introduction on the importance of SIGINT in the Cold War
10.45: coffee
11.00: Richard Aldrich (United Kingdom, University of Nottingham)
GCHQ and Sigint in the Cold War
11.45: Erich Schmidt-Eenboom (Germany, Forschungsinstitut fur
Friendenspolitik)
The BND, German Military Forces and Sigint in the Cold War
12.30: lunch
13.30: Alf Jacobsen (Norway, NRK)
Scandinavia, Sigint and the Cold War
14.15: Cees Wiebes (Netherlands, NISA)
The history of the WKC (Dutch NSA/GCHQ)
15.00: Tea
15.30: Wies Platje (Netherlands, NISA)
Dutch Sigint and the conflict with Indonesia, 1950 - 62
16.15: Round Table discussion
The importance of Sigint during the Cold War
17.00: Closing Remarks + Reception
Since the number of seats is strictly limited to 100, you are requested to
submit your registration as soon as possible. Places will be attributed on
a first registered-first served basis. The conference rate is US $ 80
including lunch and drinks at the reception. Please register as quickly as
possible by sending an E-mail or letter to the honorary secretary of the
NISA, Dr. Cees Wiebes, at the following address:
Dr. Cees Wiebes
Honorary secretary NISA
P.O. Box 18 210
1001 ZC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: WIEBES@PSCW.UVA.NL
DIMACS Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
===========================================================================
DIMACS Workshop on the Management of Digital IP
April 17-18, 2000, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Critical to the development of e-commerce is the management of digital
intellectual property (IP). Technology has challenged the status quo of
IP management in many ways. Widespread use of personal computers and
Internet communication creates vast opportunities for producers, distributors,
and consumers of digital works of all forms, but it also threatens to render
copying and modification of these works completely uncontrollable. DIMACS
will sponsor a two-day series of technical talks and "position statements"
on the design, development, and deployment of IP-management technology that
strikes the right balance between the need to control copying and modification
and the desire to foster innovative uses of digital works that have been
enabled by computing and communication advances.
Speakers are encouraged to address all technical, legal, and business aspects
of digital IP management. Companies offering relevant products and services
are encouraged to participate and to submit abstracts or papers outlining
their approach.
Topics appropriate for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Intellectual property protection.
* Anti piracy techniques.
* Legal issues in the protection of digital rights.
* New business models for managing digital rights.
* Passive content protection, e.g. watermarking, tracing traitors.
* Active content protection, e.g. software tamper resistance.
* Hardware solutions to content protection.
WORKSHOP URL: http://crypto.stanford.edu/DIMACS/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Authors are strongly encouraged to send their submission electronically.
Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter
and 4 copies of a submission (double-sided copies preferred) to the
postal address below. Submissions must be received on or before
January 17, 2000 (or postmarked by January 5, 2000, and sent via airmail
or courier). The cover letter should contain the submission's title and
the names and affiliations of the authors and should identify the contact
author including e-mail and postal addresses.
Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a full-length
paper or position statement.
(1) Abstract submissions should contain a title, list of authors, and
an abstract describing the proposed talk. The abstract should
indicate whether the authors intend to submit a full-length paper
in case the abstract is accepted.
(2) Full-length submissions should begin with a title, list of authors, and
a short abstract. The introduction should summarize the
contributions of the work at a level appropriate for a
non-specialist reader. The submission should be at most 12 pages
excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices,
using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. The organizers do
not guarantee that they will read appendices; so submissions should be
intelligible without them.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by
February 14, 2000.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
We will decide whether to publish a proceedings for the workshop based on
the number of full-length submissions. If the number and quality of
full-length submissions are sufficient, proceedings will be published
by the American Mathematical Society as a volume in the DIMACS series.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
(1) Paul Kocher, Cryptography Research.
(2) Stuart Haber, InterTrust.
(3) Narayanan Shivakumar, Univ. Washington
(4) Jon Callas, Kroll-O'Gara
DATES:
SUBMISSION: January 17, 2000
ACCEPTANCE: February 14, 2000
Pre-PROCEEDINGS VERSION: March 24, 2000
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA
Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs -- Research
Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research
ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
dabo@cs.stanford.edu
ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
Dan Boneh, DIMACS workshop,
Gates 475,
Stanford, CA, 94304-9045
U.S.A
Phone: (1) 650-725-3897 Fax: (1) 650-725-4671
E-mail: dabo@cs.stanford.edu
STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable
to obtain funding to attend the workshop. Students giving talks
at the workshop are encouraged to apply if such assistance is
needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to Joan Feigenbaum
at jf@research.att.com or 973 360-8442.
New Reports in the Theory of Cryptography Library
===========================================================================
The library is currently located at http://philby.ucsd.edu/cryptolib/.
LIST OF NEW PAPERS (June 15 -- October 1st, 1999)
99-14: I. Damgard, Concurrent Zero-Knowledge is Easy in Practice , June
1999. Revised July 1999.
99-15: O. Goldreich, S. Goldwasser and S. Micali, Interleaved Zero-Knowledge
in the Public-Key Model , June 1999. Revised July 1999.
99-16: M. Bellare and S. Miner, A forward-secure digital signature scheme,
July 1999.
99-17: V. Shoup, A composition theorem for universal one-way hash functions,
July 1999.
99-18: M. Bellare and A. Sahai, Non-Malleable Encryption: Equivalence
between Two Notions, and an Indistinguishability-Based Characterization,
July 1999.
99-19: J. Hastad and M. Naslund, Security of all RSA and Discrete Log Bits,
August 1999.
99-20: S. Micali and L. Reyzin, Improving the Exact Security of Digital
Signature Schemes, August 1999.
99-21: M. Boyarsky, Public-Key Cryptography and Password Protocols: The
Multi-User Case, September 1999.
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New Books
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This page lists new books about cryptology. We are looking for
reviewers!
Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Ian F. Blake, Gadiel Seroussi, and Nigel P. Smart
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California and Bristol, U.K.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
ISBN: 0521653746
Description In the past few years elliptic curve cryptography has
moved from a fringe activity to a major challenger to the dominant
RSA/DSA systems. Elliptic curves offer major advances on older systems
such as increased speed, less memory and smaller key sizes. As digital
signatures become more and more important in the commercial world the
use of elliptic curve-based signatures will become all pervasive. This
book summarizes knowledge built up within Hewlett-Packard over a
number of years, and explains the mathematics behind practical
implementations of elliptic curve systems. Due to the advanced nature
of the mathematics there is a high barrier to entry for individuals
and companies to this technology. Hence this book will be invaluable
not only to mathematicians wanting to see how pure mathematics can be
applied but also to engineers and computer scientists wishing (or
needing) to actually implement such systems.
For more information, see
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/itc/csl/vcd/infotheory/ellipbook.htm
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Elliptic Curves and Their Applications to Cryptography: An Introduction
Andreas Enge
Institut fuer Mathematik, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-8589-6
August 1999, 184 pp.
NLG 235.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 74.75
Since their invention in the late seventies, public key cryptosystems
have become an indispensable asset in establishing private and secure
electronic communication, and this need, given the tremendous growth
of the Internet, is likely to continue growing. Elliptic curve
cryptosystems represent the state of the art for such systems.
"Elliptic Curves and Their Applications to Cryptography: An
Introduction" provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction
to elliptic curves and how they are employed to secure public key
cryptosystems. Even though the elegant mathematical theory underlying
these cryptosystems is considerably more involved than for other
systems, this text requires the reader to have only an elementary
knowledge of basic algebra. The text nevertheless leads to problems at
the forefront of current research, featuring chapters on point
counting algorithms and security issues. The adopted unifying approach
treats with equal care elliptic curves over fields of even
characteristic, which are especially suited for hardware
implementations, and curves over fields of odd characteristic, which
have traditionally received more attention.
"Elliptic Curves and Their Applications: An Introduction" has been
used successfully for teaching advanced undergraduate courses. It will
be of greatest interest to mathematicians, computer scientists, and
engineers who are curious about elliptic curve cryptography in
practice, without losing the beauty of the underlying mathematics.
For more information, see http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-8589-6.
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Crypto-related Books from Springer
Springer Verlag maintains a list of books in cryptology at
[3]http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/crypto.html. As Springer is not
unknown to IACR members, it may be worthwile to check the site
occasionally.
_________________________________________________________________
Please send your new book announcements to the newsletter editor at
newsletter at iacr.org
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Open Position
______________________________________________________________________________
A major consumer electronics research laboratory in New York State
asks that we seek for regular employment a person with formal training
in cryptography, preferably with some course work in cryptanalysis.
Current work focuses on conditional access and copy protection for
network digital interfaces and for audio.
Requirement - PhD, or Masters with several years relavent experience.
Newly graduating doctorates will be considered.
A second opening exists for someone with the same general background
who may be completing a masters degree. Any work experience will be
helpful.
U.S. residence is not a requirement for either position.
Interested persons may contact Sid Lasky by email at
lasky2@airmail.net, telephone 214-826-8450, or fax 214-823-1628.
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IACR Calender of Events in Cryptology
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The IACR calendar lists events (conferences, workshops, ...) that may
be of interest to IACR members or deal with research in cryptology.
If you want to have an event listed here, please send email to
webmaster(at)iacr.org .
1999
* [1]FOCS '99, October 17-19, 1999, New York City, NY.
* [2]3rd Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC '99), November
1-3, 1999, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
* [3]6th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM
CCS '99), November 1-4, 1999, Singapore.
* [4]Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography (MAGC), November
5-7, 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
* [5]Information Security Workshop (ISW '99), November 6-7, 1999,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
* [6]ICICS '99, 2nd International Conference on Information and
Communication Security, November 9-11, 1999, Sydney, Australia.
* [7]Asiacrypt '99, November 15-18, 1999, Singapore.
* [8]CQRE [Secure], November 30-December 2, 1999, Duesseldorf,
Germany.
* [9]ICISC'99, The 2nd International Conference on Information
Security and Cryptology, December 9-10, 1999, Korea University ,
Seoul, Korea
* [10]Seventh IMA International Conference on Cryptography and
Coding, December 20-22, 1999, Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, UK.
2000
* [11]RSA Conference 2000, January 16-20, San Jose Convention
Center, San Jose, USA.
* [12]PKC2000, International Workshop on Practice and Theory in
Public Key Cryptography, January 18-20, 2000, Melbourne, Australia
* [13]Financial Cryptography '00, February 21-24, 2000, Anguilla,
BWI.
* [14]Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS
2000), February 2-4, 2000, San Diego, California, USA.
* [15]RSA Conference 2000 Europe, April 10-13, Hilton Munchen Park,
Munich, Germany.
* [16]Fast Software Encryption Workshop (FSE2000), April 10-12,
2000, New York, USA.
* [17]Third AES Candidate Conference (AES3), April 13-14, 2000, New
York, USA.
* [18]DIMACS Workshop on the Management of Digital IP, April 17-18,
2000, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA.
* [19]Eurocrypt 2000, May 14-18, Bruges/Brugge, Belgium.
* [20]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 14-17, 2000,
Oakland, California, USA.
* [21]Fifth Australasian Conference on Information Security and
Privacy, July 10-12, 2000, Brisbane, Australia
* [22]PODC 2000, 19th Symposium on Principles of Distributed
Computing, July 16-19, 2000, Portland, Oregon, USA.
* [23]9th USENIX Security Symposium, August 14-17, 2000, Denver, CO,
USA.
* Crypto 2000, August 20-24, 2000, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
* [24]Asiacrypt 2000, December 3-7, Kyoto, Japan.
2001
* Eurocrypt 2001, (tentatively: May 6-10), 2001, Innsbruck, Austria.
* Crypto 2001, (tentatively: August 19-23), 2001, Santa Barbara,
California, USA.
References
1. http://www.cs.washington.edu/FOCS99/
2. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/1999/ecc99/
ecc99-announce.html
3. http://www.isi.edu/ccs99/
4. http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~boston/magc.html
5. http://www.musm.edu.my/BusIT/isw99/
6. http://www.cit.nepean.uws.edu.au/icics99/
7. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~asia99
8. http://www.secunet.de/forum/cqre.html
9. http://onyx.yonsei.ac.kr/icisc99/
10. http://www.ima.org.uk/mathematics/conferences.htm
11. http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsa2000
12. http://www.pscit.monash.edu.au/pkc2k/
13. http://fc00.ai/
14. http://www.isoc.org/ndss2000/
15. http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsa2000/europe
16. http://www.counterpane.com/fse.html
17. http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/conf3/aes3conf.htm
18. http://www.iacr.org/events/pages/dimacs.html
19. http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/eurocrypt2000/
20. http://www.bell-labs.com/user/reiter/sp2000/
21. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/acisp2K/
22. http://www.podc.org/podc2000/
23. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec00/
24. http://www.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/www/staff/hangai/ac2000/
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IACR Contact Information
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Officers and Directors of the IACR (1999)
Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. If you
are a member and wish to contact IACR regarding an address change or similar
matter, you should contact the membership services at [iacrmem(at)iacr.org].
See http://www.iacr.org/iacrmem/ for more information.
Officers
Kevin S. McCurley Andrew J. Clark
President Vice President
6721 Tannahill Drive P.O. Box 743
San Jose, CA 95120 Brighton
USA East Sussex
Phone: (408) 927-1838 BN1 5HS
Email: [president(at)iacr.org] United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1273 270752
Fax: +44 1273 276558
Email: [vicepresident(at)iacr.org]
Josh Benaloh Jimmy Upton
Secretary Treasurer
Microsoft Research Certicom
One Microsoft Way 25801 Industrial Blvd
Redmond, WA 98052 Hayward, CA 94545
USA USA
Phone: (425) 703-3871 Phone: (510)780-5440
Fax: (425) 936-7329 Fax: (510)780-5401
Email: [secretary(at)iacr.org] Email: [treasurer(at)iacr.org]
Directors
Don Beaver Thomas Berson
Crypto '99 General Chair Anagram Labs
Certco Inc. P.O. Box 791
55 Broad Street, 22nd Floor Palo Alto CA, 94301
New York, NY 10004 USA
USA Phone: (415) 324-0100
Phone: (212) 709-8900 Email: [berson(at)anagram.com]
Fax: (212) 709-6754
Email: crypto99(at)iacr.org
Eli Biham Gilles Brassard
Computer Science Department Departement IRO
Technion Universite de Montreal
Haifa 32000 C.P. 6128, succursale centre-ville
Israel Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7
Email: [biham(at)cs.technion.ac.il] Canada
Voice: +972-4-8294308 Email: [brassard(at)iro.umontreal.ca]
Fax: +972-4-8221128
Christian Cachin Whitfield Diffie
IACR Newsletter Editor Sun Microsystems, MPK15-214
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory 901 San Antonio Road
Saumerstrasse 4 Palo Alto, California 94303
CH-8803 Ruschlikon phone: +1 650-786-6359
Switzerland fax: +1 650-786-6445
Email: [cachin(at)acm.org] Email:
Phone: +41-1-724-8989 [whitfield.diffie(at)eng.sun.com]
Fax: +41-1-724-8953
Joan Feigenbaum Matt Franklin
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cryptology Crypto '2000 General Chair
AT&T Labs Research Xerox PARC
Room C203 3333 Coyote Hill Road
180 Park Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 (W) 650-812-4228
USA (fax) 650-812-4471
Email: [jf(at)research.att.com] Email: crypto2000(at)iacr.org
[jofc(at)iacr.org]
Phone: +1 973 360-8442
Fax: +1 973 360-8178
Jaroslav Hruby Peter Landrock
Eurocrypt '99 General Chair Mathematics Institute
GCUCMP Praha Aarhus University
PO Box 21/OST Ny Munkegade
170 34 Prague 7 8000 Aarhus C
Czech Republic Denmark
Email: [eurocrypt99(at)iacr.org] Email:
Phone: 420 2 6143 5524 [landrock(at)cryptomathic.aau.dk]
Fax: 420 2 324450
Tsutomu Matsumoto Ueli Maurer
Div. of Electrical and Computer Eng. Department of Computer Science
Yokohama National University ETH Zurich
156 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku CH-8092 Zurich
Yokohama, 240, Japan Switzerland
Tel: +81-45-335-1451 (Ext. 2898, 2904) Email: [maurer(at)inf.ethz.ch]
Fax: +81-45-338-1157
Email: tsutomu(at)mlab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp Tel-1: +41-1-632 7420
Tel-2: +41-1-632 7371
Fax : ++41-1-632 1172
Bart Preneel Tatsuaki Okamoto
Department of Electrical Engineering NTT Labs
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1-1 Kikarinooka
Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94 Yokosuka-Shi 239
B-3001 Heverlee Japan
Belgium USA
Email: Phone: 81-468-59-2511
[bart.preneel(at)esat.kuleuven.ac.be] Fax: 91-468-59-3858
Phone: +32 16 32 11 48 Email: [okamoto(at)sucaba.isl.ntt.jp]
Fax: +32 16 32 19 86
Paul C. Van Oorschot Joos Vandewalle
Entrust Technologies Eurocrypt '2000 General Chair
750 Heron Road, Suite E08 Electrical Engineering Department
Ottawa, Ontario (ESAT)
K1V 1A7 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Canada Kard. Mercierlaan 94
Email: [paulv(at)entrust.com] B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Fax: 32/16/32.19.70
Phone: 32/16/32.10.52
email :
Joos.Vandewalle(at)esat.kuleuven.ac.be
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About the IACR Newsletter
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End of IACR Newsletter, Vol. 16, no. 3, Fall 1999.
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