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IACR Newsletter
Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 2000.
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
* Treasurer's Report for Calendar Year 1999
* New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
* Eurocrypt 2000 Poster and Rump Session
* Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Crypto '99
* Minutes of the Business Meeting at Crypto '99
* Eurocrypt 2001
* Obituary - Donald Watts Davies
* Announcements
+ NESSIE - Call for Cryptographic Primitives
+ New address of Joan Feigenbaum, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of
Cryptology
* Open Positions
* Calender of Events in Cryptology
* IACR Contact Information
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Editorial
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Welcome to the sixth electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter!
This issue marks the installment of a new permanent listing of open
positions in cryptology on the IACR Website at
http://www.iacr.org/jobs/.
I had been asked to post several
announcements for past issues of the Newsletter and decided to do this
as a service to IACR members. Questions of scope and format then led
me to adopt a new format (150 words in ASCII) and policy (we don't
charge anything, it's a free service for IACR members and for
companies who support IACR).
The Cryptology ePrint Archive (http://eprint.iacr.org) has already
received a considerable number of submissions since its opening three
months ago (see the list in this Newsletter). The ePrint Archive
provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. Papers can be
placed there by the authors and do not undergo any refereeing process
other than verifying that the work seems to be within the scope of
cryptology.
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 is mailed yearly (last in early 2000).
Please send your input to the Newsletter to
newsletter@iacr.org
The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in
October. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as
soon as possible.
Christian Cachin
IACR Newsletter Editor
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Treasurer's Report for Calendar Year 1999
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Jimmy Upton resigned as treasurer at the end of the calendar year in order to
take a break and spend more time with his family. He leaves the IACR
financially sound.
Eurocrypt 99 had a total income of $222,000. Of that amount, a total of
$48,000 was returned to the IACR ($28,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation
for the Secretariat and $10,000 in IACR advances). The remainder of the funds
covered the expenses of the conference.
Crypto 99 had a total income of $244,000 (not including income for on-campus
lodging). Of that amount, a total of $84,000 was returned to the IACR
($30,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, $10,000 in
IACR advances, and a surplus of $34,000). The remainder of the funds covered
the expenses of the conference.
In addition, Eurocrypt '97 returned about $9,200 in additional funds to the
IACR in September.
As of December 31, 1999, the IACR had $200,000 held in certificates of
deposit, approximately $115,000 held in the main IACR and Crypto checking
accounts, and $55,000 held by UCSB. The funds held by UCSB were transferred
to the Crypto account in January. Of these amounts about $110,000 is already
designated for specific expenditures in 2000 (such as the Journal), leaving
about $260,000 as the true surplus.
Susan Langford
IACR Treasurer
May 31, 2000
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New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
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2000/026 ( PS PS.GZ )
Authentication and Key Agreement via Memorable Password
Taekyoung Kwon
2000/025 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Authenticated Encryption: Relations among notions and analysis of the
generic composition paradigm
Mihir Bellare and Chanathip Namprempre
2000/024 ( PS PS.GZ )
Security of the Most Significant Bits of the Shamir Message Passing
Scheme
Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Igor E. Shparlinski
2000/023 ( PS PS.GZ )
Security of Polynomial Transformations of the Diffie--Hellman Key
Igor E. Shparlinski
2000/022 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
ACE: The Advanced Cryptographic Engine
Thomas Schweinberger and Victor Shoup
2000/021 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
An Efficient Identification Scheme Based on Permuted Patterns
Shahrokh Saeednia
2000/020 ( PS PS.GZ )
On the Security of Diffie--Hellman Bits
Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Igor E. Shparlinski
2000/019 ( PS PS.GZ )
Threshold Cryptography Secure Against the Adaptive Adversary,
Concurrently
Anna Lysyanskaya
2000/018 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Fast Verification of Any Remote Procedure Call: Short
Witness-Indistinguishable One-Round Proofs for NP
William Aiello, Sandeep Bhatt, Rafail Ostrovsky, and S. Rajagopalan
2000/017 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Lower Bounds on the Efficiency of Generic Cryptographic Constructions
Rosario Gennaro and Luca Trevisan
2000/016 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Cryptanalysis of RSA with small prime difference
Benne de Weger
2000/015 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Identification Protocols Secure Against Reset Attacks
Mihir Bellare and Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali
2000/014 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Authenticated Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks
Mihir Bellare and David Pointcheval and Phillip Rogaway
2000/013 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Concurrent Zero-Knowledge in Poly-logarithmic Rounds
Joe Kilian and Erez Petrank
2000/012 ( PDF )
Chosen Message Attack Against Goldreich-Goldwasser-Halevi's Signature
Scheme from Crypto'97
DaeHun Nyang and JooSeok Song
2000/011 ( PDF )
Tailored Key Encryption (TaKE) Tailoring a key for a given pair of
plaintext/ciphertext
Gideon Samid
2000/010 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
The Security of Chaffing and Winnowing
Mihir Bellare and Alexandra Boldyreva
2000/009 ( PS PS.GZ )
New Directions in Design of Resilient Boolean Functions
Palash Sarkar and Subhamoy Maitra
2000/008 ( PS PS.GZ )
Efficient Protocols based on Probabilistic Encryption using Composite
Degree Residue Classes
Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Mads Jurik
2000/007 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Public Electronic Contract Protocol
Tak-Ming Law
2000/006 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
An Encryption Algorithm and Key-stream Generator for Chinese Text
Messages by Character Internal Code Structure
Tak-Ming Law
2000/005 ( PS PS.GZ )
On Resilient Boolean Functions with Maximal Possible Nonlinearity
Yuriy Tarannikov
2000/004 ( PS PS.GZ )
Combinatorial Properties of Frameproof and Traceability Codes
J.N. Staddon and D.R. Stinson and R. Wei
2000/003 ( -- withdrawn -- )
Implications of the Nontriviality of Entropy Approximation
Marc Fischlin
2000/002 ( PS PS.GZ )
A New Forward-Secure Digital Signature Scheme
Michel Abdalla and Leonid Reyzin
2000/001 ( PS PS.GZ )
On Security Preserving Reductions -- Revised Terminology
Oded Goldreich
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Eurocrypt 2000 Poster and Rump Session
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The occasional drink and poster session (part one)
Efficient Protocols from Homomorphic Ivan Damgerd, Ronald Cramer,
Threshold Cryptography Jesper Buus Nielsen, Mads Jurik
Elliptic Curve Systems Too Risky? Or
TRoublesome? Arjen K. Lenstra
The Schoof-Elkies-Atkin algorithm in
characteristic 2 - The Previous world Frederik Vercauteren
record
A New Record in point counting on elliptic
curves Pierrick Gaudry
A new tool for non-intrusive analysis of
smart cards based on electro-magnetic Jean-Jacques Quisquater, David
emissions. The SEMA and DEMA methods Samyde
On the Soundness of Girault's Scheme Fabrice Boudot
The NESSIE Call for Cryptographic
Algorithms Eli Biham
FPGA Implementation of Modular
Exponentiation Using Montgomery Method Elena Trichina
One-round secure computation and secure Christian Cachin, Jan
Autonomous Mobile Agents Camenisch, Joe Kilian, Joy
M|ller
The occasional drink and poster session (part two)
Braid Group Cryptosystem, the Arithmetic
Key Agreement Protocol Jim Hughes
Update on UMAC Fast Message Authentication Phil Rogaway
Small generic hardcore subsets for the
discrete logarithm: short secret DL-keys Clauss P. Schnorr
A popular protocol whose security
decreases as key size increases David Naccache
Necessary and Sufficient Assumptions for
Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Alfredo De Santis, Giovanni Di
Knowledge for all NP relations Crescenzo, Giuseppe Persiano
A proven secure tracing algorithm for the Kaoru Kurosawa, Mike Burmester,
optimal KD traitor tracing Scheme Yvo Desmedt
Efficient Algorithms for Differential
Probability modulo 2n and Related Problems Helger Lipmaa, Shiho Moriai
Eurocrypt 2000 Poster Session
On the Soundness of Girault's Scheme [pdf] Fabrice Boudot
One-Round Secure Computation and Christian Cachin, Jan Camenisch,
Secure Autonomous Mobile Agents [txt] Joe Kilian, Joy M|ller
Efficient Multiparty Computation
from Homomorphic Threshold [pdf] Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgerd,
Cryptography Jesper Buus Nielsen
Efficient Protocols based on
Probabilistic Encryption using [pdf] Ivan Damgerd, Mads Jurik
Composite Degree Residue Classes
Necessary and Sufficient Assumptions
for Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Alfredo De Santis, Giovanni Di
Proofs of Knowledge for all NP [pdf] Crescenzo, Giuseppe Persiano
relations
Removing Complexity Assumptions from
Concurrent Zero-Knowledge Proofs [pdf] Giovanni Di Crescenzo
A metric space of test distributions
for DPA and SZK proofs [pdf] C.T.J. Dodson, S.M. Thompson
On the Equivalence Classes of Luis Javier Garcia-Villalba, M.C.
Certain Stream Ciphers [pdf] Rodriguez-Palanquex
Security for an auxiliary human
memory [pdf] Jukka A. Koskinen
A proven secure tracing algorithm
for the optimal KD traitor tracing [pdf] Kaoru Kurosawa, Mike Burmester,
scheme Yvo Desmedt
Quantum random number generation Jaroslav Hruby
Linear key predistribution schemes [pdf] Carles Padro, Ignacio Gracia,
Sebastia, Martin, Paz Morillo
Small generic hardcore subsets for
the discrete logarithm: short secret [pdf] C.P. Schnorr
DL-keys
Pseudo-random exponentiation using
the LIM-LEE method [pdf] C.P. Schnorr
FPGA Implementation of Modular
Exponentiation Using Montgomery [pdf] Elena Trichina
Method
The Schoof-Elkies-Atkin algorithm in
characteristic 2 - The Previous [pdf] Frederik Vercauteren
world record
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Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Crypto '99
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Board of Directors Meeting
Crypto '99
Santa Barbara
15 August 1999
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The Board President called the meeting to order at 10:07am.
Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Brassard, Cachin, Clark,
Feigenbaum, Franklin, Hruby, Landrock, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, T.
Okamoto, Preneel, Upton, and Van Oorschot. Also present as observers were
Mickey Swick and Catherine Clark.
A proxy for Vandewalle was held by Preneel.
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Clark asked that a report from the publishing subcommittee be added to the
agenda.
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Minutes of the 2 May 1999 meeting were approved. Motion by Preneel seconded
by Berson carried 16 to 0.
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Benaloh asked if minutes should be less detailed and the consensus was that
they should be. It was also agreed that Business Meeting minutes should
record all votes taken there.
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Crypto '99 General Chair Beaver reported on the conference. The important
items of shrimp, strawberries, and t-shirts were all reported to be in
order.
Registrations as of 11 August were 497. Catering was ordered for 540.
Early arrivals were housed in San Nicolas residence hall and others were
housed in Anacapa hall.
The conference budget was within expected bounds.
Beaver suggested that it might be better to lower student registration fees
than to continue the practice of supporting selected students. This year's
registration included approximately 80 students of which approximately 20
received financial support. Beaver obtained financial support from CertCo
to supplement the conference budget for student support.
A discussion followed as to whether uniform fee reduction for all student
registrants was preferable to the discriminatory relief now placed in the
hands of the General Chair. No consensus was reached. However, Cachin
suggested recommendations be made for future General Chairs and Beaver
agreed to update the General Chair guidelines.
Beaver then made a presentation of the Coat of Arms for Crypto '99 which is
found on the conference folders.
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Clark then reported on the status of membership services.
He said that Y2K compliance is about to be completed, but that there are
some problems with mailing lists for the Journal.
Mickey Swick said that she is becoming comfortable in her new role of
providing IACR membership services.
Clark said that the proceedings CD will be available at the conference from
Spinger-Verlag at the usual author discount price.
Feigenbaum asked that there be clear phone, e-mail, and facsimile contacts
for the membership office to facilitate conference registration and other
membership service requests.
Clark offered to organize a sub-committee meeting about managing the
relationship with the Membership Secretary.
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Hruby then reported on the final status of EuroCrypt '99.
The final registration count was 390. There were 313 full-fee registrants
(146 early and 167 late) and 64 student registrants (37 early and 27 late)
[sic].
Revenues totaled $222,376 and expenses totaled $222,461 leaving a deficit of
$85.80 (2788 Czech Koruna) which was covered by Dr. Hruby's employer.
Hruby also delivered to the board 35 left over EuroCrypt '99 proceedings and
the board agreed to try to sell these extra proceedings if possible.
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Landrock then reported on proposals for upcoming EuroCrypts. The Board was
told that it would see EuroCrypt 2001 proposals for Austria (Salzburg,
Innsbruck, and Vienna) and for Sorrento, Italy.
Other potential proposals including Poland, U.K. (Bath), Israel, Quebec, and
the Netherlands were encouraged to delay until 2002.
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McCurley then raised the issue of details for Crypto 2001 in Santa Barbara.
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After discussion of possible candidates for General Chair, a list of
candidates was proposed and approved. Motion by Clark seconded by Benaloh
carried 16 to 0 with 2 abstentions.
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[Dave Balenson has subsequently accepted the Board's offer and agreed to
serve as Crypto 2001 General Chair.]
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The Board then heard a proposal by Reihnard Posch to host EuroCrypt 2001 in
Austria.
The proposal consisted of three possible venues: Innsbruck, Salzburg, and
Vienna.
The Innsbruck site consisted of a conference center for the technical
program and hotels within walking distance. Daily hotel costs ranged from
approximately 1600 Austrian Schillings down to approximately 500 Austrian
Schillings. The registration costs (not including the $80 membership dues)
were expected to be approximately $450.
The Salzburg site consisted of a large hotel that would house the technical
program as well as most participants. Nearby secondary hotels were also
available. Registration costs were expected to be roughly the same as for
Innsbruck.
The Vienna site consisted of housing the technical program at the Vienna
Conference Center and lodging at various hotels 15-20 minutes away via
public transit. The registrations costs (not including the $80 membership
dues) were expected to be approximately $480.
After some discussion of the alternatives, the Board and the presenter
agreed on a preference for the Innsbruck site.
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The Board then heard a proposal by Guiseppe Russo to host EuroCrypt 2001 in
Sorrento, Italy.
Sorrento is 52km south of Naples with regular transit connections and
roughly a 3.5 hour bus trip (available twice daily) to and from Rome.
The conference would be hosted in the Sorrento Palace Hotel with 410 rooms
and an integrated conference center that can accommodate up to 1700. Room
costs would be approximately $150 per day.
The total expenses are estimated at 51,000,000 Italian Lira [sic] with an
estimated attendance of 450 producing a cost of 1,052,000 Italian Lira or
$569 per participant.
Other nearby three star hotels have rooms available for about $97 per day.
Nearby two star hotels have rooms available for about $81 per day.
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After some discussion of the proposals, the Board approved a motion by Upton
and seconded by Clark to select the Austrian bid with a preference for the
Innsbruck site. The motion carried 16 to 0.
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At this point, Beaver left the meeting to attend to conference business and
gave his proxy to Berson.
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Discussion then turned to Program Chairs for EuroCrypt 2001 and Crypto 2001.
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After discussion of possible candidates for Program Chair, two lists of
candidates were proposed and approved.
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[Birgit Pfitzman has subsequently accepted the Board's offer and agreed to
serve as EuroCrypt 2001 Program Chair and Joe Kilian has subsequently
accepted the Board's offer and agreed to serve as Crypto 2001 Program
Chair.]
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Matsumoto, acting on behalf of AsiaCrypt Steering Committee Chair E.
Okamoto, then reported on upcoming AsiaCrypt activities.
The AsiaCrypt Steering Committee heard two proposals for AsiaCrypt 2001 --
one for Taipei, Taiwan and one for the Gold Coast of Australia. The
Steering Committee recommended acceptance of the Taiwan proposal.
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A motion was made by Berson and seconded by Upton that the Steering
Committee send its complete recommended proposal (including General Chair)
to the Board by 15 September and that the Board respond to this proposal by
15 October. This motion was approved by acclamation.
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[In a supplemental Board meeting two days later (see below), the Board heard
a detailed proposal from Prof. Wen-Guey Tzeng on the Taipei proposal. At
the time of the writing of these minutes, the Board has not yet taken
formal action on this proposal.]
The Board then discussed possible Program Chairs for AsiaCrypt 2001.
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After discussion a Program Chair candidate was identified and approved by
the Board.
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Cachin and Biham then reported on their proposal for a cryptology pre-print
server. Cachin suggested that pre-print servers are widespread and that
there is no conflict between another pre-print server and anonymous
submissions.
Maurer asked about detailed procedures and persistence of papers on such a
server.
Feigenbaum asked about the window of utility during which such a server
would be beneficial for any given research contribution.
Clark asked about additional downsides.
Berson asked if we could contract this service to an outside party.
McCurley suggested that it might be possible to contract for this service
through CORE.
Biham asked if we should approach someone to contract for this service.
Feigenbaum and others then expressed fears over giving an outside party
control over our publications.
Berson then asked for a straw poll on the desirability of an IACR pre-print
server. Support for the idea was unanimous.
Cachin asked for a commitment to proceed.
Van Oorschot and Benaloh suggested soliciting help at the Business Meeting.
A sub-committee was formed to study the issue consisting of Biham, Cachin,
Feigenbaum, and McCurley.
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Journal Editor Feigenbaum then gave a report on the state of the Journal.
Feigenbaum described an opportunity from Springer-Verlag to increase the
page count of the Journal for a modest additional fee and asked whether we
should accept the offer given that the Journal's submission rate had
declined.
Brassard expressed a concern that the reduction in submissions might be due
to a long backlog.
Feigenbaum stated that the current backlog was approximately one year.
Cachin suggested that recent improvements in the print quality of conference
proceedings might have contributed to the decrease in Journal submissions.
Biham suggested that we tell Spinger-Verlag that we do not want to increase
the page count at present but may wish to do so in a year or more.
It was generally agreed that there should be no immediate increase in the
Journal's page count but that the situation should be watched and revisited
if the backlog increases.
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Treasurer Upton then presented a brief financial report stating that the
IACR finances are healthy and recommending no increase in dues.
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Upton then raised the issue of restricted donations to the IACR and asserted
that the IACR doesn't really have any pressing needs for more funding.
Clark offered to contact a potential donor and discuss the possibilities of
sponsorship of one of a variety of possible new initiatives including a
pre-print server, a student fellowship, and a lecture prize.
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Preneel then raised the issue of an IACR Distinguished Lecture for AsiaCrypt
2000.
He said that no nominations had been received.
Tom Berson was suggested as a candidate and left the room.
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After discussion, the Board voted 16 to 0 to ask Tom Berson to deliver the
IACR Distinguished Lecture at the inaugural AsiaCrypt.
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Berson then returned to the room and accepted the invitation.
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Preneel then raised the issue of whether "best paper" awards should be given
at IACR conferences.
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A motion was made by Preneel and seconded by Landrock that each Program
Committee be authorized to award zero or more "outstanding paper" honors.
The motion was defeated 7 to 8 with 1 abstention.
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Franklin reported that the Elections Committee had not yet received any
nominations.
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Preneel then reported on EuroCrypt 2000.
He said that logistics were progressing smoothly. There would be a single
registration point for local hotels and that rooms could be held with a
credit card or by pre-payment. Hotel rooms would be released one month
prior to the conference.
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Franklin then reported on Crypto 2000.
He said there were no current issues and that there would be no apostrophe
in the name.
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Cachin then reported that the Newsletter was operating smoothly.
He said that e-mail addresses of note included newsletter@iacr.org (which is
forwarded to Cachin) and webmaster@iacr.org (which is forwarded to both
Cachin and McCurley).
The last electronic distribution of the Newsletter had only 27 member
e-mails that were returned as invalid.
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Clark then reported on membership activities.
He said that, 2 years having elapsed since its inception, we were required
to review our arrangement with the Secretariat. Clark and Upton agreed to
conduct this review and report back at the EuroCrypt 2000 Board Meeting.
McCurley then reported that Clark had resigned his position as Membership
Secretary.
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McCurley then yielded his chair to Clark in order to offer a motion
(seconded by Berson) that Don Beaver be appointed as Membership Secretary.
The motion was approved 16 to 0.
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[Beaver subsequently accepted the Board's offer to fill this position.]
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McCurley then reported on the status of electronic submissions.
He stated that the current code (written and maintained with no budget) is
experimental and that a permanent solution is desirable.
[Note: Preneel subsequently offered the following information about the
current electronic submissions code.
- the software was written in Perl by Sam Rebelsky and SIGACT's Electronic
Publishing Board (9 people, including Joe Kilian)
see www.sigact.acm.org/sigact/electronic.html
- for Eurocrypt '99, this software was ported to the ENS computers and
apparently it worked fine (but please confirm this with Jacques Stern)
- Eurocrypt 2000 will use the sigact.acm.org server - it has a.o. a backup
facility on a remote site.
- the software was called "experimental" when it was first used for
Stoc'95.
- the software was used for Focs, Stocs, Eurocrypt, Crypto, WDAG,...
- while it still not commercial software, it seems to be working fine.
A recent improvement is that it now accepts attachments.
- the main problem seems to be that some non-Unix platforms seem to produce
postscript that is hard to understand to ps printers (this is a
euphemism).
I suggested to Joe to switch to pdf, but it is clear that this cannot
be done quickly.
It seems that the Sigact solution is rather permanent, and that for the
time being the Program Chairs have not complained too hard about it.
But I agree that it would be nice if IACR could improve this software and
run it on our own server.]
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Feigenbaum then reported that Springer-Verlag is about to do a publicity
blitz to seek more subscriptions and that they solicit any mailing lists we
can offer to help them.
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McCurley then asked for items to be placed on the agenda for the forthcoming
Business Meeting.
Agenda items included the recommendation for no increase in dues,
announcements about future IACR conferences, solicitations for input and
assistance regarding a possible pre-print server, and an election report to
be delivered by Franklin.
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Action items for McCurley were to extend offers for General and Program
Chairs for EuroCrypt 2001 and Crypto 2001.
An action item for Clark was to contact a potential donor about possible
uses for a restricted-use donation.
The pre-print sub-committee is scheduled to meet and report back at the
EuroCrypt 2000 Board Meeting.
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The meeting adjourned at 6:01pm.
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Board of Directors Supplemental Meeting
Crypto '99
Santa Barbara
17 August 1999
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The Board President called the meeting to order at 12:15m.
Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Diffie,
Feigenbaum, Franklin, Hruby, Landrock, Maurer, McCurley, T. Okamoto,
Preneel, Upton, and Van Oorschot.
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A presentation was made by Prof. Wen-Guey Tzeng concerning details of the
Taipei, Taiwan proposal for AsiaCrypt 2001.
Discussion ensued regarding Program Chair candidates and the role of the
AsiaCrypt Steering Committee.
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A motion regarding AsiaCrypt 2001 Program Chairs was offered and defeated.
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It was agreed that further discussions would be conducted by e-mail.
Upon a motion by Diffie seconded by Landrock, the meeting was adjourned at
12:56pm.
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Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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Minutes of the Business Meeting at Crypto '99
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Business Meeting
Crypto '99
Santa Barbara
18 August 1999
IACR President McCurley began the meeting at 4:34pm.
He briefly described the functions of the IACR beginning with IACR sponsored
conferences EuroCrypt, Crypto, and (starting in 2000) AsiaCrypt. He then
described the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, and the website at
http://www.iacr.org.
McCurley then individually introduced the members the IACR Board of
Directors and told of upcoming elections for three director positions which
are currently held by Brassard, Maurer, and Preneel. Nominations are
solicited by the Nominating Committee consisting of IACR Board members
Landrock, Biham, and Franklin (chair).
Journal Editor Feigenbaum then spoke briefly about the Journal. She said
that the current backlog is less than one year and asked that people
volunteer to referee. She also described a long special issue on secure
distributed computation that was edited by Oded Goldreich and will appear in
the winter of 2000.
McCurley then spoke about the IACR Newsletter. He said that its purpose
includes news, announcements, and other items of interest to the community.
It's e-mail address is newsletter@iacr.org, and the deadline for the next
issue is 30 September 1999. He then thanked Newsletter Editor Cachin for
his work in completing the transition of the Newsletter to electronic form.
McCurley then addressed the financial status of the IACR. He introduced
Upton as the Treasurer and asserted that the IACR's assets are healthy but
modest. He said that conferences generally either return a profit or break
even, and said there was no recommendation to raise the membership dues
(currently $80 for regular members and $40 for students). He said that most
of the dues goes to pay of the Journal and that a full report could be found
in the Newsletter.
McCurley then described the discussions the board has had regarding a
cryptology pre-print server and invited members to express their opinions to
Cachin and/or Biham.
McCurley then gave brief announcements of upcoming IACR sponsored
conferences.
EuroCrypt 2000 will be held 14-18 May 2000 in Brugge, Belgium. The General
Chair is Joos Vanderwalle and the Program Chair is Bart Preneel. The
deadline for paper submissions is 3 November 1999.
Crypto 2000 will be held the third week of August 2000 in Santa Barbara.
The General Chair is Matt Franklin and the Program Chair is Mihir Bellare.
The deadline for paper submissions is 10 February 2000. This will be the
twentieth Crypto conference. It should be noted that the UseNix Security
Conference is scheduled for 14-18 August 2000, so there may be a conflict.
AsiaCrypt 2000 will be held 3-7 December 2000 in Kyoto, Japan. The General
Chair is Tsutomu Matsumoto and Program Chair is Tatsuaki Okamoto. The
deadline for paper submissions is 25 May 2000. This will be the first IACR
sponsored AsiaCrypt.
McCurley then presented a plaque to Michael Wiener for his work as Program
Chair of Crypto '99. General applause was given.
McCurley then presented a plaque to Don Beaver for his work as General Chair
of Crypto '99. General applause was given.
Wiener then offered various statistics about Crypto '99 paper submissions
and acceptances. 167 papers were submitted (mostly electronically) of which
38 were accepted yielding a 23% acceptance rate.
Of the electronic submissions, the following statistics were given for
acceptance rate for top-level domains.
.edu 14/37
.com 9/32
.jp 2/21
.fr 3/12
.kr 0/10
.il 5/9
.de 0/9
.uk 0/5
.in 1/4
.au 0/3
.ch 0/3
.se 1/2
.nl 1/2
.dk 1/2
.it 0/2
.net 0/2
.sg 1/1
.tw 0/1
.ru 0/1
.yu 0/1
.br 0/1
.gov 0/1
.ca 0/1
.es 0/1
Also, none of the four paper submissions received were accepted.
Acceptance rates were also given according to the number of words in the
title.
2: 0%
3: 38%
4: 36%
5: 38%
6: 38%
7: 11%
8: 2% [sic]
9: 0%
10: 16%
11: 25%
12+: 24%
Beaver then offered statistics on registration for Crypto '99. There were a
total of 510 registrants. Of these, 82 were students. There were also 22
guests. The fees were $415 for regular members of IACR, $495 for
non-members, and $230 for students. In addition, there was a late
registration fee of $75 and a guest fee of $130.
Revenues collected were as follows.
22 supported students each paid $0.
54 other students each paid $230.
6 late registering students each paid $305.
85 regular members each paid $415.
14 late registering regular members each paid $490.
269 non-members each paid $495.
60 late registering non-members each paid $560.
22 guests each paid $130.
The breakdown of registration by country was as follows.
249 USA
31 Germany
30 France
30 Japan
24 Canada
15 Netherlands
15 UK
13 Israel
10 Switzerland
8 South Korea [sic]
7 Australia
7 Belgium
7 Sweden
5 Czech Republic
5 Korea [sic]
5 Norway
4 Denmark
4 Italy
3 Brazil
3 China
3 Romania
3 Singapore
3 South Africa
2 Argentina
2 Croatia
2 Ireland
2 Saudi Arabia
2 Spain
1 Austria
1 Egypt
1 Finland
1 Hungary
1 India
1 Mexico
1 Peru
1 Republic of Korea [sic]
1 Russia
1 Scotland [sic]
1 Slovakia
1 Taiwan
1 Turkey
3 Elbonia [sic]
Clark then asked for a show of hands for people who had purchased the
proceedings CD-ROM but had not yet received it. A few hands were raised,
and people in this situation were asked to contact Clark at
vicepresident@iacr.org.
McCurley then mentioned that an errata for this work is available at
http://www.iacr.org/cd.
In response to a question, McCurley said that any new version of the
proceedings CD-ROM would, due to space limitations, likely contain only
corrections and no new material.
It was then asked if CDs of current conferences could be produced. McCurley
answered that there were format and cost concerns but that this might be
worth pursuing.
In response to another question, McCurley stated that the BibTeX file for
the proceedings CD-ROM is already on the CD-ROM.
Another question referred to an analysis showing that IACR conference costs
have risen beyond the rate of inflation. It was suggested that efforts be
made to limit conference cost increases to the inflation rate and consider
differential fees for academic and industry-based participants. Beaver
answered that approximately $13,000 was spent on student support but that no
support was given to post-docs or academics. The elimination of the group
photograph was mentioned as one way in which costs had been reduced.
A related question asked about the possibility of corporate sponsorship.
Beaver observed that CertCo had provided much of the student support this
year, but that other sponsorship and government grants have not been
pursued.
One member asked how many people support a differential fee structure.
Another proposal suggested allowing individuals to apply for subsidies.
Neither proposal was ever voted on, although one member volunteered to be
"chair for life" of the committee disbursing funds. Corporate sponsorship
of subsidies was suggested as well as the possibility of asking members to
make voluntary contributions (perhaps $20-30 on the registration forms) to
support subsidies. There was uncertainty over the question as to whether
such voluntary contributions would be tax deductible.
In response to a related question, Beaver noted that the total amount spent
on the pocket knife "gift" for participants was approximately $3,000, and he
again noted that CertCo had contributed more than that to support students.
In a straw poll, an overwhelming majority of participants wanted to continue
to receive t-shirts. In separate polls, few people expressed support for no
memorabilia whatsoever, many expressed support for a t-shirt but no other
memorabilia, and few expressed support for a t-shirt and other memorabilia.
It was suggested by a member that participants could take unsupported
students home as memorabilia.
Andrew Klapper (General Chair of Crypto '98) enunciated how difficult it is
to predict the conference budget in advance and that the cost of small
trinkets may be lost in the noise.
A suggestion was made that we officially adopt the coat of arms found on the
Crypto '99 folders. An alternative suggestion was made that we adjourn --
the latter suggestion winning out at 5:19pm.
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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Eurocrypt 2001 Announcement
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Eurocrypt 2001
May 6-10, 2001, Innsbruck, AUSTRIA,
the 20th Annual Eurocrypt Conference
http://www.ec2001.ocg.at
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Obituary - Donald Watts Davies
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Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS, computer pioneer, and early IACR member
died on May 28 in London at age 75. Donald is remembered by many as an
inventor of packet-switched networking. In fact, he was the man who
gave the name "packet" to a chunk of data. What fewer now recall is
that Donald was a regular author at early IACR conferences. Donald
loved to solve puzzles, and he found the then-new DES algorithm a
puzzle worthy of his intellect. He had an active and inventive
cryptanalytic mind - he disclosed something very close to linear
cryptanalysis to me in 1987. That same year Donald was appointed a
Fellow of the Royal Society; he liked to tell of his pleasure at
signing the same register of names as Newton had signed. He served our
community as program chair of Eurocrypt '91. His books, "Computer
Networks and their Protocols," and, with Wynn Price, "Security for
Computer Networks," remain classic references.
Through the 1990s Donald was less active in IACR affairs. However,
those who were fortunate to know him will never forget him.
--Tom Berson
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Announcements
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** NESSIE - Call for Cryptographic Primitives
Version 2.2, 8th March 2000 (Extract)
NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signature, Integrity, and Encryption)
is a project within the Information Societies Technology (IST)
Programme of the European Commission. It is a 3-year project, which
started on 1st January 2000. Further information about NESSIE is
available at http://cryptonessie.org.
The main objective of the project is to put forward a portfolio of
strong cryptographic primitives for a number of different platforms.
These primitives will be obtained after an open call and evaluated
using a transparent and open process. They should be the building
blocks of the future standard protocols for the information society.
The deadline for the submission of primitives will be 29th September
2000. A workshop will be organised for submitters to present their
primitives.
The NESSIE project is seeking submissions of strong cryptographic
primitives in the categories given below. The NESSIE project is
particularly interested in receiving submissions in categories that
have not received much standardisation effort.
1. Block ciphers
2. Synchronous stream ciphers
3. Self-synchronising stream ciphers
4. Message Authentication Codes (MACs)
5. Collision-resistant hash functions
6. One-way hash functions
7. Families of pseudo-random functions
8. Asymmetric encryption schemes
9. Asymmetric digital signature schemes
10. Asymmetric identification schemes
Definitions are broadly as given in the Handbook of Applied
Cryptography (ISBN: 0-8493-8523-7).
Detailed Selection Criteria, Security Requirements, Evaluation
Criteria, and Formal Submission Requirements are available from
http://cryptonessie.org/call
Further information is available at info@cryptonessie.org and
http://cryptonessie.org.
** New address of Joan Feigenbaum, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cryptology
As of July 1, 2000, the address of Joan Feigenbaum, Editor-in-Chief of
the Journal of Cryptology, is as follows.
Joan Feigenbaum
US Postal Service Address:
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
P. O. Box 208285
New Haven, CT 06520-8285
USA
FedEx, Courier, and Street Address:
51 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA
Email: joan.feigenbaum(at)yale.edu
Phone: +1 203 432 6432
Fax: +1 203 432 0593
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Open Positions in Cryptology
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IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology.
The listing is available on the Web at http://www.iacr.org/jobs/
and also included in the IACR Newsletter that is sent to members
three times per year.
To advertise your job opportunities, please send a description of no
more than 150 words in plain ASCII text by email to jobs(at)iacr.org.
This should include an URL and further contact information. No
attachments or word documents, please! (Submissions in other formats
than text will not be posted.)
As this is intended to be a service to the members of IACR, it is free
for all members. We ask that commercial enterprises who want to
advertise their openings identify at least one of their employees who
is a member of IACR. (IACR does not know corporate membership.) Please
contact the membership secretariat to become a member of IACR.
On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for
sponsors for its conferences.
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Zero-Knowledge Systems
Zero-Knowledge Systems, maker of world class privacy tools, has a
variety of openings for outstanding cryptographers, cryptanalysts, and
cryptographic engineers, or just design your own perfect job at all
levels of experience. Join a team that includes some of the world
leading experts in cryptography, credential authentication, privacy
and electronic cash systems. Many positions include an expectation
that your work will result in publication or open source release.
Great work environment, brilliant co-workers, stock options, free
coffee, etc, etc. Please visit our jobs web site at
http://jobs.zeroknowledge.com
(entered 18-may-00)
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
The IBM Zurich Research Laboratory is seeking SENIOR RESEARCHERS in
CRYPTOGRAPHY, in FORMAL METHODS IN SECURITY, and in INTRUSION DETECTION
to join our Network Security and Cryptography research group. To
apply please send your resume including a list of publications, the
names and addresses of two references, and two scientific publications
to Hans Hofmann (hof@zurich.ibm.com), Human Resources Manager, IBM
Zurich Research Laboratory, Saeumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rueschlikon,
Switzerland. For more information please visit our web site at
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/Technology/Security/.
(8-jun-00)
RSA Laboratories
RSA Laboratories, RSA Security's established yet innovative cryptography
laboratory, is seeking candidates for several research positions at its
offices in Bedford, Mass. and Stockholm, Sweden. RSA Laboratories' research
staff are engaged in a wide range of research projects in cryptography and
security technology, as well as prototyping, standards development, and
technical strategy. For more information, see
http://www.rsasecurity.com/company/.
(10-jun-00)
Certicom
Certicom leads the world in security solutions for mobile computing - we
provide the encryption and authentication technology which makes e-commerce,
enterprise data applications, and many other solutions work on PDAs, cell
phones, embedded devices, and the like. We are searching for intelligent and
highly-motivated people with interest in embedded or portable systems and
cryptography.
Please visit our web sit at www.certicom.com to view the jobs that we
currently have open which include:
Director of Standards
Standards Specialists
Cryptographic Researchers
Cryptographic Engineers
(10-jun-00)
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IACR Calendar 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 .
2000
* [1]Fifth Australasian Conference on Information Security and
Privacy, July 10-12, Brisbane, Australia.
* [2]19th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC
2000), July 16-19, Portland, Oregon, USA.
* [3]9th USENIX Security Symposium, August 14-17, Denver, CO, USA.
* [4]Seventh Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC
2000), August 14-15, Waterloo, Canada.
* [5]Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES
2000), August 17-18, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA.
* [6]Crypto 2000, August 20-24, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
* [7]VI Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (VI
RECSI), September 14-16, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
* [8]CARDIS 2000, September 20-22, HP Labs, Bristol, UK.
* [9]ISSE 2000 (Information Security Solutions Europe), September
27-29, Barcelona, Spain.
* [10]Fourth Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2000),
October 4-6, University of Essen, Germany.
* [11]Fifth Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC 2000),
October 12-13, Reykjavik, Iceland.
* [12]14th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and
Computing, October 26-28, 2000, Wichita State University, Kansas,
USA.
* [13]7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS
2000), November 1-4, Athens, Greece.
* [14]41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,
November 12-14, Redondo Beach, USA.
* [15]Asiacrypt 2000, December 3-7, Kyoto, Japan.
* [16]3rd International Conference on Information Security and
Cryptology (ICISC 2000), December 8-9, Seoul, Korea.
* [17]Indocrypt 2000, December 10-13, Calcutta, India.
* [18]3rd International Workshop on Information Security (ISW2000),
December 18-19, Wollongong, Australia.
2001
* [19]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2001),
January 8-12, Paris, France.
* [20]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key
Cryptography (PKC2001), February 13-15, Cheju Island, Korea.
* [21]Financial Cryptography '01, (tentatively: Late February Grand
Cayman, Cayman Islands, BWI).
* [22]Cryptography and Lattices Conference (CaLC 2001), March 29-30,
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
* [23]Eurocrypt 2001, May 6-11, Innsbruck, Austria.
* [24]4th International Information Hiding Workshop (IHW 2001) ,
April 25-27, Pittsburgh, USA.
* [25]33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), July
6-8, Crete, Greece.
* Crypto 2001, (tentatively: August 19-23), 2001, Santa Barbara,
California, USA.
* [26]Third International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS), November 13-16, Xian, China.
References
1. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/acisp2K/
2. http://www.podc.org/podc2000/
3. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec00/
4. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2000/SAC2000/announcement.html
5. http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches
6. http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/crypto2k.html
7. http://www.deioc.ull.es/virecsi/index.htm
8. http://www.cardis.org/
9. http://www.eema.org/isse/
10. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2000/ecc2000/announcement.html
11. http://www.ru.is/nordsec2000/
12. http://www.math.twsu.edu/ccc/
13. http://www.ccs2000.org/
14. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~FOCS2000/
15. http://www.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/www/staff/hangai/ac2000/
16. http://dosan.skku.ac.kr/~icisc/
17. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/
18. http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/ccsr/cfp.htm
19. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2001/
20. http://caislab.icu.ac.kr/pkc01/
21. http://www.iacr.org/events/pages/fc01.txt
22. http://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/CALC/CALC.html
23. http://www.ec2001.ocg.at/
24. http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/IHW2001/
25. http://sigact.acm.org/stoc01/
26. http://homex.s-one.net.sg/member2/icisa/icics2001.html
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IACR Contact Information
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Officers and Directors of the IACR (2000)
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 Susan Langford
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)780-5422
Fax: (425) 936-7329 Fax: (510)780-5401
Email: [secretary(at)iacr.org] Email: [treasurer(at)iacr.org]
Directors
Dave Balenson Don Beaver
Crypto 2001 General Chair Certco Inc.
Technical Outreach and Special Projects 55 Broad Street, 22nd Floor
NAI Labs New York, NY 10004
The Security Research Division of USA
Network Associates, Inc. Phone: (212) 709-8900
3060 Washington Road Fax: (212) 709-6754
Glenwood, MD 21738 USA Email: beaverd(at)certco.com
Email: david_balenson(at)nai.com
Voice: 443 259 2358
Fax: 301 854 4731
Thomas Berson Eli Biham
Anagram Labs Computer Science Department
P.O. Box 791 Technion
Palo Alto CA, 94301 Haifa 32000
USA Israel
Phone: (650) 324-0100 Email:
Email: [berson(at)anagram.com] [biham(at)cs.technion.ac.il]
Voice: +972-4-8294308
Fax: +972-4-8294308
Christian Cachin Whitfield Diffie
IACR Newsletter Editor Sun Microsystems, MPK15-214
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory 901 San Antonio Road
Sdumerstrasse 4 Palo Alto, California 94303
CH-8803 R|schlikon 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
Department of Computer Science Xerox PARC
Yale University 3333 Coyote Hill Road
P. O. Box 208285 Palo Alto, CA 94304
New Haven, CT 06520-8285 (W) 650-812-4228
USA (fax) 650-812-4471
Email: joan.feigenbaum(at)yale.edu or Email: crypto2000(at)iacr.org
[jofc(at)iacr.org]
Phone: +1 203 432 6432
Fax: +1 203 432 0593
Kwangjo Kim Peter Landrock
School of Engineering Mathematics Institute
Information and Communications Univ. Aarhus University
58-4 Hwaam-dong Yusong-ku Ny Munkegade
Taejon, 305-348 8000 Aarhus C
KOREA Denmark
Tel : +82-42-866-6118 Email:
Fax : +82-42-866-6154 [landrock(at)cryptomathic.aau.dk]
E-mail : [kkj (at) icu.ac.kr]
Tsutomu Matsumoto Ueli Maurer
Division of Artificial Environment and Department of Computer Science
Systems ETH Z|rich
Yokohama National University CH-8092 Z|rich
79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya Switzerland
Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan Email: [maurer(at)inf.ethz.ch]
Email: tsutomu(at)mlab.jks.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:
Fax: +32 16 32 19 86 [okamoto(at)sucaba.isl.ntt.jp]
Paul C. Van Oorschot Reinhard Posch
Entrust Technologies Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair
750 Heron Road, Suite E08 Scientific Director
Ottawa, Ontario Secure Information Technology
K1V 1A7 Center - AUSTRIA
Canada Inffeldgasse 16a
Email: [paulv(at)entrust.com] A-8010 GRAZ
AUSTRIA
Phone: +43 316 873 5510
Fax: +43 316 873 5520
Email: Reinhard.Posch(at)iaik.at
Joos Vandewalle
Eurocrypt '2000 General Chair
Electrical Engineering Department
(ESAT)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Kard. Mercierlaan 94
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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