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IACR Newsletter
Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 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
* NIST announces that Rijndael has been selected as the proposed AES
* Inventors of Public-key Cryptography Receive IEEE Koji Kobayashi
Computers and Communication Award
* IACR 2000 Election Candidates and their Statements
* Andrew Odlyzko to hold 2001 IACR Distinguished Lecture
* New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
* Crypto 2000 Rump Session
* Asiacrypt 2000: Call for Participation
* Eurocrypt 2001: Call for Papers
* Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000
* Minutes of the Business Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000
* New Books
+ Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital
Certificates; Building in Privacy, by Stefan Brands
+ Secrets & Lies, by Bruce Schneier
* Open Positions
* Calender of Events in Cryptology
* IACR Contact Information
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Editorial
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Welcome to the 7th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter!
No big changes for the IACR Newsletter this time, but the table of
contents looks quite packed, nevertheless. Make sure you don't forget
to vote in the upcoming IACR elections this fall.
Late-breaking news from IACR:
* Andrew Odlyzko to the IACR Distinguished Lecture of 2001 at
Eurocrypt in Innsbruck.
* Rebecca Wright to be the general chair, Moti Yung the program
chair of Crypto 2002.
* Yuliang Zheng to be the program chair of Asiacrypt 2002.
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
February 2001. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR
Website as soon as possible.
Christian Cachin
IACR Newsletter Editor
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NIST announces that Rijndael has been selected as the proposed AES.
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For more information, see http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/
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Inventors of Public-key Cryptography Receive IEEE Koji Kobayashi
Computers and Communication Award
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The [1]IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award was
established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 "to recognize
outstanding technical contributions in the field of computers and
communications, that is, the integration of computers and
communications."
For 1999, Whitfield Diffie (Sun Microsystems - Palo Alto, CA), Martin
E. Hellman (Stanford University - Stanford, CA), and Ralph C. Merkle
(Xerox PARC - Sunnyvale, CA) received the award
For the revolutionary invention of public key cryptosystems which
form the foundation for privacy, integrity and authentication in
modern communication systems.
For 2000, Ronald L. Rivest (Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Arlington, MA), Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot,
Israel), and Leonard Adleman (University of Southern California -
Northridge, CA) received the award
For the revolutionary invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem
which is the first to be widely-adopted.
Both awards were presented to the recipients by Tom Berson (Chair of
the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
and Director of the IACR) at Crypto 2000 in Santa Barbara.
References
1. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/sums/koji.htm
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IACR 2000 Elections: Candidates and their Statements
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Tom Berson
I have served IACR since 1983 as Secretary, Treasurer, President,
and Director. During that time we created premier cryptologic
conferences, literature, and community. Our present challenges
include electronic publication and sponsorship of workshops. I
know where we have been and I know where we are going. Please vote
for me.
Longer statement at http://www.anagram.com/vote.
Home page at http://www.anagram.com/berson.
Yvo Desmedt
Top quality papers in all areas of cryptography used to be sent
primarily to IACR conferences. Due to the explosion of
conferences, IACR is at a crossroad. This must be addressed
properly. Being a member since 1983, I am in good position to make
sure that IACR conferences remain attractive.
Home page at http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~desmedt.
Andrew Fernandes
Who am I? A professional paranoid by day, valiantly protecting
innocent algorithms from evil bureaucrats, all in the name of
rampant capitalism... A crusader by night, passionately
promulgating the latest ultra cool web ways to keep IACR members
informed, aware, and well fed at every Crypto conference...
Longer statement at http://www.fernandes.org/iacr.html.
Home page at http://www.fernandes.org.
Joe Kilian
Best known as the submission-server guy, I've also served on
CRYPTO and Eurocrypt program committees and am program chair for
CRYPTO 2001. I have specific goals such as further internetizing
our publications, but run mainly on a claim of general competence
and the willingness to do the work.
Lars Knudsen
I will be happy to serve as director of IACR. I think the IACR
should continue being an organisation for cryptologic research
with a strong link to applied research. Making FSE an IACR
conference is a step in that direction. Member since 1991.
Home page at http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr.
Tsutomu Matsumoto
As the general chair, I am having a real-time experience to
prepare the first IACR-sponsored Asiacrypt conference. If elected,
I would like to do my best for IACR to promote and maintain the
worldwide integrity of cryptologic research.
Hilarie Orman
The IACR's high standards for research review and publication are
exemplary, and I will work to promote and sustain them.
Accessibility to the material is essential to building a worldwide
research community, and it is my goal to extend access in ways
that are consistent with the IACR's commitments.
Longer statement at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~horman/iacr.html.
Greg Rose
I have recently finished a 6 year term on the board of USENIX, and
would enjoy offering my experience and energy to the IACR, where
my professional interests now lie.
Longer statement at http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr/iacr.html.
Home page at http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr.
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Procedures
The elections will proceed as follows:
* Ballots will be mailed to all IACR members by OCTOBER 1, 2000.
* Ballots must be mailed to be received by the Returning Officer
(Andy Clark, address to be found in the ballot) in the official
envelopes by NOVEMBER 15, 2000.
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Andrew Odlyzko to hold 2000 IACR Distinguished Lecture
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At its meeting in Santa Barbara at Crypto 2000, the IACR board of
directors has chosen
Andrew Odlyzko
for IACR Distinguished Lecturer of the year 2001. The lecture will be
given at Eurocrypt 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. We look forward to his
presentation.
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New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
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Note: The 1996-1999 contents of the Theory of Cryptology Library have
been automatically included in the Cryptology ePrint Archive for the
years prior to 2000.
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2000/049 ( PS PS.GZ )
Spectral Domain Analysis of Correlation Immune and Resilient Boolean
Functions
Palash Sarkar
2000/048 ( PS PS.GZ )
New Constructions of Resilent and Correlation Immune Boolean Functions
achieving Upper Bounds on Nonlinearity
Enes Pasalic and Thomas Johansson and Subhamoy Maitra and Palash Sarkar
2000/047 ( PS PS.GZ )
Highly Nonlinear Balanced Boolean Functions with very good
Autocorrelation Property
Subhamoy Maitra
2000/046 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
The Saturation Attack - a Bait for Twofish
Stefan Lucks
2000/045 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge Without Intractability
Assumptions
Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Philip MacKenzie
2000/044 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Provably Secure Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using
Diffie-Hellman
Victor Boyko and Philip MacKenzie and Sarvar Patel
2000/043 ( PS PS.GZ )
Constructions and Bounds for Unconditionally Secure Commitment Schemes
C. Blundo and B. Masucci and D.R. Stinson and R. Wei
2000/042 ( PS PS.GZ )
Constructing Pseudo-Random Permutations with a Prescribed Structure
Moni Naor and Omer Reingold
2000/041 ( PS PS.GZ )
On Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval
Sanjeev Kumar Mishra
2000/040 ( PS PS.GZ )
Decimation Attack of Stream Ciphers
Eric FILIOL
2000/039 ( PS PS.GZ )
Encryption Modes with Almost Free Message Integrity
Charanjit S. Jutla
2000/038 ( PS PS.GZ )
On the Complexity of Verifiable Secret Sharing and Multi-Party
Computation
Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Stefan Dziembowski
2000/037 ( PS PS.GZ )
General Secure Multi-Party Computation from any Linear Secret Sharing
Scheme
Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damg{\aa}rd and Ueli Maurer
2000/036 ( PS PS.GZ )
Using fewer Qubits in Shor's Factorization Algorithm via Simultaneous
Diophantine Approximation
Jean-Pierre Seifert
2000/035 ( PS PS.GZ )
Electronic Jury Voting Protocols
Alejandro Hevia and Marcos Kiwi
2000/034 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Random Oracles in Constantinople: Practical Asynchronous Byzantine
Agreement using Cryptography
Christian Cachin and Klaus Kursawe and Victor Shoup
2000/033 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
The Complete Distribution of Linear Probabilities of MARS' s-box
Kazumaro Aoki
2000/032 ( PS PS.GZ )
Anonymous Fingerprinting with Direct Non-Repudiation
Birgit Pfitzmann, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
2000/031 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Forward Security in Threshold Signature Schemes
Michel Abdalla and Sara Miner and Chanathip Namprempre
2000/030 ( PS PS.GZ )
Secure Multiparty Computation of Approximations
Joan Feigenbaum and Jessica Fong and Martin Strauss and Rebecca N.
Wright
2000/029 ( PS PS.GZ )
Concrete Security Characterizations of PRFs and PRPs: Reductions and
Applications
Anand Desai and Sara Miner
2000/028 ( PS PS.GZ )
An Information-Theoretic Model for Steganography
Christian Cachin
2000/027 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Accountable Certificate Management using Undeniable Attestations
Ahto Buldas and Peeter Laud and Helger Lipmaa
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Crypto 2000 Rump Session Program
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Online-version with links
at http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/crypto2k/
This is a list of talks given at the rump session. We will include
here any information regarding the paper provided by the authors, such
as abstract, pointers or preprints. Authors are encouraged to send us
the information. The papers are ordered as per the program.
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AES update
Morris Dworkin
Assasinating SASAS
Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir
A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael
Niels Ferguson, Richard Schroeppel and Doug Whitting
Camellia: A 128-Bit Block Cipher Suitable for Multiple Platforms
Kazumaro Aoki, Tetsuya Ichikawa, Masayuki Kanda, Mitsuru Matsui,
Shiho Moriai, Junko Nakajima, Toshio Tokita
Note: This appears in SAC 2000
Improved impossible differentials on Twofish
Eli Biham and Vladimir Furman
The left super summit set attack on Ko-Lee-Cheon-Han-Kang-Park key
agreement protocol in B45
Jim Hughes
ECSTR (XTR): Elliptic curve singular trace representation
Alfred Menezes and Scott Vanstone
Search on Encrypted Data
Dawn Song, David Wagner and Adrian Perrig
Uncheatable Distributed Computations
Philippe Golle
Session-Key Generation with Human Passwords Only
Oded Goldreich and Yehuda Lindell
Concurrent oblivious transfer
Juan Garay and Phil MacKenzie
Note: This appears in FOCS 2000
Zaps and Their Applications
Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor
Note: This appears in [27]FOCS 2000
Transitive signature schemes
Silvio Micali and Ron Rivest
Encryption Modes with Almost Free Message Integrity
Charanjit S. Jutla
A chosen-ciphertext secure encryption scheme tightly as secure as factoring
Eiichiro Fujisaki
An NTRU based digital signature scheme
Joe Silverman and Jeff Hoffstein
Elliptic Curves: Twice as Fast!
Rich Schroeppel
Factoring polynomials over the rationals quickly and using lattice-basis
reduction
Arjen Lenstra for Mark van Hoeij
The Min-Rank problem
Nicolas Courtois
Lower bounds on the efficiency of generic cryptographic constructions
Rosario Gennaro and Luca Trevisan
This appears in FOCS 2000
Oblivious cast and multiparty computation
Matthias Fitzi, Juan Garay, Ueli Maurer and Rafail Ostrovsky
A Statistical Decoding Algorithm for General Linear Codes
A. Al Jabri
Inherently Large Traceability of Broadcast Encryption Scheme
Kaoru Kurosawa, T. Yoshida and Yvo Desmedt
TWEEDLE, a sound variation of TWINKLE
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Sharing block ciphers
Ernie Brickell, Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Yair Frankel
A new application of EPR for quantum key distribution
Jaroslav Hruby
Correlation Cryptanalysis of SSC2
Greg Rose and Phil Hawkes
Simple electro-magnetic analysis for smartcards: New results
Jean-Jacques Quisquater and David Samyde
Root Finding Interpolation Attack
Kaoru Kurosawa, Tetsu Iwata and Viet Duong Quang
Note: This appears in [59]SAC 2000.
Timing attacks: state of the art
Werner Schindler, Francois Koeune and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
A Non Euclidean Ring Data Scrambler (NERDS) - a public key cryptosystem
Emiliano Kargieman, Ariel Pacetti and Ariel Waissbein
Timing Analysis in Exponentiation for RSA
B. Canvel and C.T.J. Dodson
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Eurocrypt 2001 -- Call for Papers
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited
for submission to Eurocrypt 2001, the 20th Annual Eurocrypt
Conference. Eurocrypt 2001 is organized by the International
Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). For more information,
access [15]http://www.iacr.org
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically.
For lectronic submission goto:
[16]http://www-krypt.cs.uni-sb.de/Eurocrypt/. Electronic submissions
must conform to this procedure and be received by November 6, 2000,
22:00 MET (GMT+1) 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 [17]postal address. Submissions must be received by the
[18]Program Chair on or before November 6, 2000 (or postmarked by
October 30, 2000, 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 35 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 15, 2001.
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 and
binding 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 February 26, 2001.
RUMP SESSION
There will be a Rump Session for informal presentations on recent
results, work in progress, and other topics of interest to the crypto
community (possibly including satirical presentations that are not
purely technical in nature.) Authors are invited to submit their
proposals for Rump Session presentations before May 1st, 2001 by
electronic mail (plain ASCII) to the Rump Session chair, Jean-Jaques
Quisquater, at [19]jjq@dice.ucl.ac.be. Alternatively, proposals can be
handed to the Rump Session chair at the conference before May 7th,
2001 (14:00 MET). Proposals should be at most one page; useful
attachments are permitted if not dangerous.
SUBMISSION 6 November 2000
ACCEPTANCE 15 January 2001
PROCEEDINGS VERSION 26 February 2001
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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Minutes of the BoD Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000
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Board of Directors Meeting
Eurocrypt 2000
Brugge
14 May 2000
The Board President called the meeting to order at 10:01.
Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Kim, Landrock,
Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, E. Okamoto, T. Okamoto, Posch,
Preneel, Van Oorschot, and Vandewalle. Swick was also present representing
the IACR Secretariat.
Proxies were held for Diffie by Preneel and for Vandewalle by Landrock
(during Vandewalle's absence).
The agenda of the meeting was approved unanimously.
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Minutes of the 15 August 1999 meeting were approved. Motion by Preneel
seconded by Berson carried 17 to 0.
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Eurocrypt 200 General Chair Vandewalle reported on the conference.
Corporate sponsorships from Cryptomathic Belgium, PWC, Utimaco Safeware,
Europay International, Isaserver, and Ubizen netted approximately $23,000 in
additional income. Ancillary (non-participant based) expenses were
approximately $56,000. This includes approximately $6,000 in student
stipends, $12,000 for the lecture hall, $11,000 in organizing committee
expenses, $6,000 in program committee expenses, and $10,000 refunded to the
IACR secretariat to repay the advance previously provided. Regular
registration was $370 and student registration was $90.
McCurley asked about the availability of internet access and Preneel
responded that 12 machines have been made available.
McCurley reminded Vandewalle to acknowledge the corporate sponsors and
Vandewalle provided the Board with further information about each of the
sponsors.
McCurley asked about the availability of proceedings and books and Preneel
responded that these had been sent by Springer-Verlag.
Clark asked about participant costs and was told by Preneel that some of the
sponsors received free registration (the loss of approximately $2,500 in
registration fees had already been accounted for in the net income from
sponsors).
All gave thanks to Vandewalle for his work on the conference.
McCurley asked about the adequacy of the IACR guidelines to the Program
Chair and Preneel suggested the need for an update.
McCurley asked about the arrangement with the IACR secretariat and Preneel
reported that there were only minor glitches.
Vandewalle mentioned the need for early hotel reservations, and Preneel said
that new hotels were found after the original hotels became fully booked.
Clark offered compliments to Vandewalle and Preneel for the selection of the
Hotel Montanus for the Board.
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Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch then gave a report on Eurocrypt 2001.
Posch stated that a website had been set up at http://www.ec2001.ocg.at.
McCurley asked if we should register the URL eurocrypt.org. Cachin felt
that this was unnecessary. Posch said that he prefers to maintain the web
site locally.
Posch asked the Board about sponsorship guidelines. McCurley said they were
unstructured. Langford asked about tax consequences of large contributions.
McCurley said that the IACR is incorporated in the U.S. and must follow U.S.
tax laws and its own mission. Langford offered to send tax information to
Posch. Posch asked if there was any decision process and McCurley responded
that this was open.
McCurley commented that any decision on distinguished lectures was reserved
by the Board and asked if Posch needed to make any deposits as yet. Posch
responded that he did not.
The date for Eurocrypt 2001 was given as 6-11 May 2001.
McCurley asked Posch to present info on Eucrocrypt 2001 at the Business
Meeting.
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Asiacrypt 2000 General Chair Matsumoto then reported on Asiacrypt 2000.
Matsumoto said that preparations were going well. The registration fee
would be $595 with a $75 reduction for early registration and a $80
reduction for IACR members. Expected income was given as 15,982,000 yen
(with an exchange rate of approximately 100 yen to the dollar).
McCurley asked about the paper submission deadline and was told by T.
Okamoto that it would be May 25.
Matsumoto agreed to discuss budget details separately with Langford.
McCurley asked if there were any outstanding issues. Matsumoto said that he
wanted to use corporate donations to reduce the registration fee below $500
but that corporate financial difficulties had limited this option.
McCurley asked about the possibility of electronic submissions, and T.
Okamoto said that submissions would be accepted by e-mail.
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The issue of relationships of IACR with other conferences was then
discussed.
McCurley said that Asiacrypt had been the recent focus, but that
relationships with other conferences such as Fast Software Encryption, the
Information Hiding Workshop, and Financial Cryptography could be considered.
Preneel said that the Fast Software Encryption conference has no formal
committee. It had been a small workshop in 1993 and 1994 and grew
substantially from approximately 30 participants to approximately 200
participants when paired with the AES workshop. It is expected to stabilize
at approximately 100 participants. Matsui will be the next Program Chair.
The conference has never lost money but has no financial reserve. It uses
IACR copyright forms.
McCurley noted that Ian Goldberg is not requiring any copyright assignment
in conjunction with the Financial Cryptography workshop.
Preneel emphasized that if the Fast Software Encryption conference were to
be sponsored by the IACR it should be done in a way that does NOT cause
related papers to be rejected from any of the current IACR conferences.
Maurer said that no guarantees are possible.
Preneel said that guidelines to support this position are possible.
Van Oorschot suggested that it might be best to NOT emphasize this point.
Clark asked about the advantages to IACR of an affiliation with the Fast
Software Encryption conference.
Landrock suggested that it could increase both IACR's prestige and
membership.
Maurer expressed the opinion that sponsorship of high-quality conferences is
advantageous to IACR and asked whether IACR conferences should have separate
content and flavor.
McCurley observed we have previously distinguished conferences only by
regionalization and that discrimination based on content would be a new
approach.
Maurer said that he would be happy to have Fast Software Encryption be a
premier IACR conference in its area.
Biham asserted that it is essential to maintain author choice in where to
submit.
McCurley suggested that he thought that content-based bias had not been a
problem, but Van Oorschot said that he had seen IACR program committees
reject papers from conferences on the basis of their being more appropriate
for Fast Software Encryption. Preneel shared Van Oorschot's concern in this
regard.
Berson offered the Information Hiding Workshop as another example of a
conference toward which some IACR program committee's have redirected
submissions.
McCurley expressed dilution of quality as his major concern.
Van Oorschot observed that hardware papers are regularly rejected from the
Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences. Preneel added his belief that this had
been a consistent problem.
McCurley asked if we should be directing IACR program committees to include
more hardware papers. Maurer expressed the opinion that these are separate
areas. Benaloh voiced a concern about an even greater reduction in quality
of submissions.
McCurley asked about recent conference acceptance rates. Preneel said that
the acceptance rate at Eurocrypt 2000 was 26% and that 31 out of 116 papers
[27%] were accepted at Crypto 2000.
McCurley asked about how the co-ordination of additional IACR conferences
would be managed. Preneel suggested a model like that used for Asiacrypt
with a separate steering committee.
McCurley asked for a specific proposal.
Van Oorschot said that the financial stability of the IACR would be a
benefit to Fast Software Encryption.
McCurley suggested that the Fast Software Encryption conference might shrink
dramatically after the AES competition is over.
Berson said that the IACR should be open to new sponsorships but expressed
concern over the managerial stress that this would place on the IACR.
Benaloh suggested the possibility of waiting a year until after AES to make
a decision about Fast Software Encryption. Preneel countered that the Fast
Software Encryption conference had 120 participants prior to being linked
with AES workshops.
McCurley reiterated the concern about management of additional conferences.
Van Oorschot suggested that a Eurocrypt steering committee (similar to that
of Asiacrypt) could off-load some of IACR's management burden. McCurley
expressed support for this idea.
Maurer observed that this opened a greater issue of IACR Board structure and
the possibility of forming sub-committees to perform some of the management.
Clark contrasted the contributions IACR would offer to Fast Software
Encryption, including financial insurance, organizational assistance from
the IACR Secretariat, and legal support such as maintenance of copyrights,
with the primary benefit of additional prestige that Fast Software
Encryption would bring to the IACR.
McCurley suggested the possibility of merging the Fast Software Encryption
conference with the workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.
Berson expressed the opinion that this kind of high-level planning was the
wrong model and that the IEEE open conference model was preferable.
McCurley agreed that an open model was good but reiterated concerns about
dilution of quality. Van Oorschot voiced the opinion that the IACR should
not become bureaucratic.
Benaloh asked about stressing of the IACR secretariat and whether Fast
Software Encryption participants should become IACR members. The consensus
was that this was possible and desirable.
Beaver asked for details on the IEEE model for managing conferences. Berson
responded that the IEEE heavily taxes conferences and uses these proceeds to
manage risk and absorb losses.
Beaver suggested that other conferences might want to ally with the IACR so
long as the IACR does not micromanage them.
Biham asked where we see the IACR in twenty years. McCurley expressed the
desire that it be similar to today. Landrock asked whether the Crypto and
Eurocrypt conferences would represent a smaller portion of the IACR's
activities. Van Oorschot asked if it would be expanded to cryptography and
security.
Preneel suggested that any decision on Fast Software Encryption be made in
the context of future consequences for other conferences. Biham added that
we should have precise criteria for other conferences allying with IACR.
Clark reminded the Board that historically the IACR had a "sponsored by
IACR" status and an "in cooperation with IACR" status for conferences and
expressed the opinion that the primary concern is consistency of future
criteria. Clark then asked that a specific proposal be solicited from the
Fast Software Encryption organizers.
McCurley said that he felt that management was still a concern.
Preneel said that about half of Fast Software Encryption participants also
come to IACR conferences.
Biham suggested that some Fast Software Encryption participants find that
conference to be more manageable than IACR conferences.
McCurley asked about an independent committee for Fast Software Encryption
citing management advantages, more direct selection of a Program Committee
Chair, and avoidance of micromanagement as advantages.
Berson voiced the view that this would be a good model for "sponsored
workshops".
McCurley said that he wanted to eliminate the "in cooperation with IACR"
status and didn't favor adding new designations because of implied IACR
approval of the conferences' content.
Clark described major issues as legal and financial.
Benaloh suggested that financial stability should be a major concern.
Maurer suggested looking at other organizations for models to follow.
Berson suggested the appointment of a committee to consider the issue.
E. Okamoto said that IACR needs to change to respond to growth.
McCurley suggested the need for a model for workshops to be incorporated
into the IACR.
Clark supported Berson's suggestion that we should create a committee to
deal with the issue before it becomes more urgent.
McCurley asked Preneel, Biham, and Maurer to act as a committee to explore
guidelines for IACR sponsored workshops. Berson, Langford, and Clark
offered their resources to help with the committee.
Beaver suggests that a better name than "workshop" could be advantageous.
Clark asked for the committee to report back to the Board at the next IACR
Board meeting in Santa Barbara. The committee members agreed to do so.
Van Oorschot noted that Springer-Verlag will publish the RSA conference
crypto track proceedings starting in 2001 and that we have no control over
this literature.
McCurley expressed a desire to restructure the IACR Board and by-laws to
provide for committees with specific duties.
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The issue of the IACR Secretariat was then discussed.
Swick proposed that the Secretariat no longer attend Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt
conferences expressing the view that this is both unnecessary and burdensome
on the Secretariat. She proposed that the IACR instead follow the Eurocrypt
'99 model in which funds are sent directly to the Eurocrypt committee rather
than filtered through the Secretariat.
Preneel expressed the view that the Eurocrypt 2000 committee would have had
difficulties handling credit card payments directly.
Langford suggested that the IACR could advance funds as necessary.
Clark observed that the IACR has historically asked the Secretariat to send
personnel to conferences for coordination and noted that the job of the
Secretariat has recently been extended substantially.
Berson asked if payment to the secretariat had increased commensurately to
which several members responded that it had not.
Beaver suggested that Preneel's concerns about cash flow could be isolated
and that the conference seed funds may need to be increased from the current
$10,000.
McCurley expressed a strong desire to make web-based conference registration
available.
Swick said that most of these things were possible but that physical
presence by the Secretariat at conferences was the primary burden.
McCurley noted that database entry has relied on physical presence.
Matsumoto said that Asiacrypt 2000 is relying on physical presence of the
Secretariat.
Swick said that Secretariat presence at Asiacrypt was less of a problem but
that the timing of Eurocrypt in May posed a significant problem for the
Secretariat.
McCurley then appointed a committee to report on the IACR relationship to
the Secretariat. The committee included Beaver, Posch, Matsumoto, Swick,
and Langford.
Clark asked that the committee report back at the Board's next meeting in
Santa Barbara and the committee members agreed to do so.
________________________________________________________________________
IACR Treasurer Langford then presented a brief financial report.
Eurocrypt '99 broke even with $222,000 in income after returning $48,000 to
the IACR. Of this $48,000, $28,000 went to member dues, $10,000 was paid to
the secretariat for services, and $10,000 repaid the advance supplied by the
IACR.
Crypto '99 had $244,000 in income. $74,000 was returned to the IACR of
which $30,000 went for member dues and $10,000 repaid the IACR advance.
This left a $34,000 surplus.
It was also reported that an additional $7,000 surplus was returned to the
IACR from Eucrocrypt '97.
As of 31 December 1999, the IACR reserve consisted of $200,000 in CDs,
$115,000 in a checking account, and $15,000 held by the Secretariat. After
expenses, the total surplus was $260,000.
An extension on taxes had just been filed to keep the IACR in conformance.
Clark suggested that after a recent failure to renew the iacr.org domain
name that the responsibility of domain registration should be turned over to
the Treasurer. Langford agreed to accept this responsibility.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board recessed for lunch at 12:31 and reconvened at 13:59.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then considered proposals for Eurocrypt 2002.
Nigel Smart presented a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2002 in Bristol, UK.
A second proposal was planned, but due to a scheduling misunderstanding, the
second proposal and final decision was postponed until the following day.
________________________________________________________________________
Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair E. Okamoto then briefed the Board on
Asiacrypt 2001.
He reminded the Board that Asiacrypt 2001 had previously been approved for
Taiwan but that the offer to host the conference was withdrawn after the
1999 earthquake.
He then reported that the Asiacrypt steering committee had recommended that
the conference be relocated to Queensland, Australia.
Colin Boyd then briefed the Board on a proposal to host Asiacrypt 2001 on
the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Dates were given as 9-13 December
2001 for a conference hall with a capacity of 400 and hotels within 10-15
minutes by bus. Ed Dawson was proposed as General Chair and Colin Boyd was
proposed as Program Chair. Early registration fees were estimated at $495
(exclusive of IACR membership).
After some discussion, the Board approved this proposal.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then devoted some time to discussion of Eurocrypt 2002.
A particular concern was timing of the conference. (Eurocrypt 2000 was held
the same week as the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland.)
Berson reported that this conflict was due to a late change in the dates for
the Oakland conference and that this conference would henceforth be held the
week following the second Sunday in May.
The consensus of the Board was that efforts should be made to avoid future
conflicts with both the Oakland conference and the Symposium on Theory of
Computation (STOC) and that this could best be done by scheduling Eurocrypt
in early May or even late April.
________________________________________________________________________
The topic of IACR elections was then discussed.
McCurley noted the need to appoint an election committee.
Clark volunteered to serve as returning officer.
________________________________________________________________________
Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the Newsletter.
Cachin said that there was generally little technical material but that
content usually consisted of unsolicited announcements, organizational
issues, and advertisements for open positions.
Cachin asked if we should seek or accept payment for position
advertisements.
Berson expressed concern about spam from headhunters but suggested that
accepting donations is reasonable.
McCurley suggested that we dictate a format for position advertisements.
________________________________________________________________________
Cachin then reported on the IACR e-print archive.
He said that it had approximately 20 papers and was hosted on Mihir
Bellare's machine at UCSD and was administered by himself and Bennet Yee.
He then suggested the appointment of an IACR website master.
McCurley noted that Cachin was serving in three roles: newsletter editor,
web master, and e-print archive manager.
McCurley suggested the need for a publications committee.
Cachin suggested the possibility of an IACR machine.
McCurley expressed a need for the IACR to better define its approach to
electronic publication and to include Springer-Verlag in the process.
Cachin offered that readers want both hard and soft copy available and asked
if it were possible to share copyright.
Biham asked whether copyrighted items could be included on the e-print
archive.
McCurley answered that copyrighted items could be included if their
copyrights were held by IACR. He then referred to the IACR copyright
agreement which can be found in http://www.iacr.org/forms.
Clark suggested that authors may publish their work on their own web sites
but that IACR encourage them not to do so for twelve months.
Cachin said that he did not want authors to publish identical papers in
Springer-Verlag and on the e-print archive.
McCurley expressed a desire to maintain good relations with both
Springer-Verlag and authors.
McCurley noted that members have frequently asked for electronic versions of
both current proceedings and back issues of the Journal.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then discussed Program Chairs for upcoming conferences and voted
to ask Colin Boyd to serve as the Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2001 and Lars
Knudsen to serve as Program Chair for Eurocrypt 2002. [Both subsequently
accepted.]
________________________________________________________________________
Preneel raised the issue that many people had expressed concerns regarding
deadlines for IACR conferences being unbalanced (Crypto 2000 deadline
falling only 2.5 months after the Eurocrypt 2000 deadline).
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then appointed an election committee consisting of Clark, Kim, and
Maurer. [Benaloh subsequently replaced Maurer because of Maurer's
anticipated absence from Crypt 2000.]
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then agreed to meet over lunch on 15 May 2000 to hear an
additional proposal for Eurocrypt 2002 and discuss further business.
________________________________________________________________________
An agenda for the Business Meeting was established including announcements
for subsequent conferences and reports on finances, the Newsletter, and
upcoming elections.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then formally voted to accept the Asiacrypt 2001 proposal and
separately voted to ask Colin Boyd to serve as Program Chair.
Van Oorschot asked that attempts be made to reduce costs for the conference.
________________________________________________________________________
The meeting was adjourned at 16:55.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Board of Directors Supplemental Meeting
EuroCrypt 2000
Brugge
15 May 2000
The Board President called the supplemental meeting to order at 12:44.
Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Franklin, Kim,
Landrock, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, McCurley, T. Okamoto, Posch, Preneel,
and Van Oorschot.
Berry Schoenmakers and and Henk C. A. van Tilborg presented a proposal to
hold Eurocrypt 2002 in the Netherlands.
________________________________________________________________________
Matt Franklin then gave a brief status report on Crypto 2000.
He said that all was going well but that the costs would increase
approximately 5% due to UCSB food and service increases.
Berson asked whether such increases were typical.
Beaver responded that the previous year's increase was approximately 3%.
________________________________________________________________________
Votes were then taken on the proposals for Eurocrypt 2002 and the Board
accepted the Netherlands proposal with a preference for siting the
conference in a single hotel in Amsterdam.
________________________________________________________________________
The supplemental meeting was adjourned at 13:56.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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Minutes of the Business Meeting at Eurocrypt 2000
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Business Meeting
Eurocrypt 2000
Brugge
17 May 2000
IACR President McCurley began the meeting at 17:30.
He reminded conference attendees that they were all members of the IACR
unless they had explicitly declined membership. He described the history of
the IACR which began in 1983 and has grown to 1300 members, and he described
activities of the IACR including its conferences, the Journal of Cryptology,
the Newsletter, and the preprint archive. He invited members to explore the
IACR website at http://www.iacr.org.
McCurley then described the IACR status as a 501C organization chartered in
the U.S. state of Nevada.
He then introduced the Officers and Directors of the IACR.
McCurley then described the elections that would be held in the fall of 2000
for board positions beginning in 2001. The Elections Committee was
introduced as consisting of Clark (as returning officer), Kim, and Maurer.
[Benaloh has since been substituted for Maurer on the Election Committee.]
McCurley then described the following upcoming IACR conferences.
Crypto 2000 will be held 20-24 August 2000 in Santa Barbara. Matt Franklin
is the General Chair and Mihir Bellare is the Program Chair.
Asiacrypt 2000 will be held 3-7 December 2000 in Kyoto, Japan. Tsutomu
Matsumoto is the General Chair and Tatsuaki Okamoto is the Program Chair.
The submission deadline was 25 May 2000.
Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch described the next Eurocrypt conference.
Eurocrypt 2001 will be held 6-11 May 2001 in Innsbruck, Austria. The
General Chair is Reinhard Posch and the Program Chair is Birgit Pfitzmann.
The conference website is at http://www.ec2001.ocg.at
Crypto 2001 will be held 19-23 August 2001 in Santa Barbara. The General
Chair is Dave Balenson and the Program Chair is Joe Kilian.
Asiacrypt 2001 will be held 9-13 December 2001 on the Gold Coast of
Australia. Ed Dawson will be the General Chair and Colin Boyd will be the
Program Chair.
McCurley then told the audience that the IACR Secretariat is administered by
Conference Services of the University of California at Sanata Barbara and
that they handle all IACR membership issues. They can be reached at
iacrmem@iacr.org.
________________________________________________________________________
IACR Treasurer Langford then reported on Finances. She said that the IACR
maintains a strong reserve of approximately $200,000 (which is approximately
the cost of a single IACR conference). She reported that Eurocrypt '99
broke even and that Crypto '99 returned a surplus. 1999 dues were reported
as $80 for regular members and $40 for students. Approximately 70% of the
dues were described as paying for the Journal of Cryptology, $10 going to
UCSB for IACR Secretariat services, and the remainder paying for the IACR
web site, Newsletter, and other miscellaneous items.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then described the IACR Newsletter and introduced editor Cachin.
He said that the Newletter is electronic and available on the web. It
contains book reviews, conference announcements, job advertisements, and
other information of interest to the community. The deadline for
submissions was 30 May 2000 and its address is newsletter@iacr.org.
Editor Cachin then described the Newsletter in somewhat greater detail
including its thrice yearly publication schedule and its URL of
http://www.iacr.org/newsletter.
Cachin then described the IACR preprint archive. It accepts preprints,
afterprints, and any other technical contributions to the community. Mihir
Bellare serves as editor of the preprint server and Cachin manages
maintenance.
McCurley then gave the preprint server URL of http://eprint.iacr.org.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then opened the floor for other business.
One member expressed a dislike for paying for the Eurocrypt conference in US
dollars rather than Euros.
McCurley responded that membership services are under revision. Currently
mailings are sent from the Secretariat in Santa Barbara, and the Secretariat
has also collected fees as a convenience. He said that it was not clear how
future conferences would be organized.
Membership Secretary Beaver noted that if the IACR collects fees in Europe,
it may be difficult to avoid paying VAT -- potentially increasing costs by
15%. He added that handling money can be difficult for a General Chair and
is often best left to the Secretariat.
Cachin asked if currency mattered when most payments were made by credit
card.
Another member asked if it would be better for IACR to avoid currency
conversion risks.
McCurley acknowledged that there are risks and that Beaver is exploring
alternatives. He said that no solutions were optimal and mentioned that
even web-based registration has only been explored and contains its own set
of advantages and concerns.
A member asked how the venues for conferences are chosen.
McCurley responded that many factors are considered. Among those he listed
were that the conference be hosted by a General Chair who is a responsible
member of the IACR community, that the venue provide open access to members
of virtually all nationalities, affordability, availability of
accommodations, weather, geographic diversity, and political stability. He
said that the Board then considers proposals and votes on alternatives.
A straw pole was then taken on changing the Santa Barbara venue for the
Crypto conference. A slight majority appeared to be in favor of maintaining
the Santa Barbara venue.
Diffie then inquired as to whether the real purpose of Business Meetings was
to raise member dues. [No increase in dues is anticipated.]
A member asked how long the Crypto conferences could avoid parallel
sessions.
McCurley responded that the general feeling was that parallel sessions were
unnecessary.
A member asked if there was a conflict between the eprint server and the
anonymous paper submissions policy.
McCurley responded that there was much momentum behind the anonymous
submissions policy and that it was unlikely to change in the near future.
A member asked if there was a conflict between the eprint server and the
IACR copyright assignment form.
McCurley responded that the new copyright form assigns copyright to the IACR
-- largely for long-term archival purposes. The IACR only "asks" that
authors refrain from publishing on the web for 12 months -- generally to
maintain good relations with Springer-Verlag.
The member then asked if the lack of a clear copyright policy alienates
Springer-Verlag.
Board member Van Oorschot suggested that a possible solution would be to use
the eprint server only as a preprint server.
The member asked about full papers.
Van Oorschot expressed the opinion that there would be no problem so long as
the full paper were different from the copyrighted paper.
Another member asked if derivative works would be a problem.
Board member Berson responded that the IACR has no plans to sue itself.
The first member suggested using the Gnu public license.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley adjourned the Business Meeting at 18:05.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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New Books
______________________________________________________________________________
This page lists new books about cryptology. If you want to review a
book, please let us know!
Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in
Privacy
by Stefan Brands
ISBN 0-262-02491-8
The MIT Press
August 2000
356 pp.
With a foreword by prof. Ronald L. Rivest
Summary
As paper-based communication and transaction mechanisms are replaced
by automated ones, traditional forms of security such as photographs
and handwritten signatures are becoming outdated. Most security
experts believe that digital certificates offer the best technology
for safeguarding electronic communications. They are already widely
used for authenticating and encrypting email and software, and
eventually will be built into any device or piece of software that
must be able to communicate securely. There is a serious problem,
however, with this unavoidable trend: unless drastic measures are
taken, everyone will be forced to communicate via what will be the
most pervasive electronic surveillance tool ever built. There will
also be abundant opportunity for misuse of digital certificates by
hackers, unscrupulous employees, government agencies, financial
institutions, insurance companies, and so on.
In this book Stefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for
the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without
sacrificing security. Such certificates function in much the same way
as cinema tickets or subway tokens: anyone can establish their
validity and the data they specify, but no more than that.
Furthermore, different actions by the same person cannot be linked.
Certificate holders have control over what information is disclosed,
and to whom. Subsets of the proposed cryptographic building blocks can
be used in combination, allowing a cookbook approach to the design of
public key infrastructures. Potential applications include electronic
cash, electronic postage, digital rights management, pseudonyms for
online chat rooms, health care information storage, electronic voting,
and even electronic gambling.
_________________________________________________________________
Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier
ISBN 0-471-25311-1
John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover - 432 pages - $29.95.
See [1]http://www.counterpane.com/sandl.html for more information.
Although this isn't a book on cryptology per se, I found this book is
of interest for all cryptographers. Schneier puts cryptology in the
broader context of network security, shows where threats in the
digital world differ from those in the physical world and where not,
and reminds cryptographers, including himself, that cryptologic
techniques alone are not enough for securing the online world.
-- Christian Cachin
______________________________________________________________________________
Open Positions in Cryptology
______________________________________________________________________________
IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology.
The listing is available on the Web at [1]http://www.iacr.org/jobs/
and also included in the [2]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 [3]become a member of IACR.
On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for
sponsors for its conferences.
14-aug-00: Entries are now sorted by inverse chronological order.
_________________________________________________________________
NTRU Cryptosystems
Ntru (Burlington, MA) is a rapidly growing start-up,
developing and marketing the fastest secure public key encryption
technology available. We are a well financed company (Greylock, Sony)
with a patented algorithm (see NY Times, July 3, 2000) offering terrific
opportunities for highly motivated cryptographers and software engineers.
We need highly skilled researchers and mathematicians as well as developers,
technicians, and software engineers.
Ntru will change the paradigm for wireless solutions - to contact us, or
to find out more about our company and NTRU technology, please visit our
website at www.ntru.com or send an email/resume to jobs@ntru.com.
(14-aug-00)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Professor/Associate Professor in Telematics (Information Security)
The Department of Telematics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU) seeks candidates for a vacant Professorship in Telematics
(Information Security), see
http://www.item.ntnu.no/stillinger/profsec_utlysn-e.html
For further information regarding the professorship, see
http://www.item.ntnu.no/stillinger/betprof-e.html.
Questions regarding the professorship can be mailed to prof@item.ntnu.no
(27-jul-00)
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IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology
______________________________________________________________________________
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]6th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2000), October 4-6, Toulouse, France.
* [2]Fourth Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2000),
October 4-6, University of Essen, Germany.
* [3]Fifth Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NORDSEC 2000),
October 12-13, Reykjavik, Iceland.
* [4]14th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and
Computing, October 26-28, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.
* [5]7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS
2000), November 1-4, Athens, Greece.
* [6]41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
(FOCS), November 12-14, Redondo Beach, USA.
* [7]2nd Midwest Arithmetical Geometry in Cryptography Conference,
November 17-19, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
* [8]Management of Digital Rights, November 20-21, Berlin, Germany.
* [9]Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA2000),
November 23-24, Seoul, Korea.
* [10]Asiacrypt 2000, December 3-7, Kyoto, Japan.
* [11]3rd International Conference on Information Security and
Cryptology (ICISC 2000), December 8-9, Seoul, Korea.
* [12]Indocrypt 2000, December 10-13, Calcutta, India.
* [13]3rd International Workshop on Information Security (ISW2000),
December 18-19, Wollongong, Australia.
2001
* [14]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2001),
January 8-12, Paris, France.
* [15]ISOC 2001 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS),
February 7-9, San Diego, California, USA.
* [16]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key
Cryptography (PKC2001), February 13-15, Cheju Island, Korea.
* [17]Financial Cryptography '01, February 19-22, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands, BWI.
* [18]Cryptography and Lattices Conference (CaLC 2001), March 29-30,
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
* [19]Fast Software Encryption Workshop (FSE2001), April 2-4,
Yokohama, Japan.
* [20]RSA Conference 2001 Cryptographer's Track, April 8-12, San
Francisco, USA.
* [21]Eurocrypt 2001, May 6-11, Innsbruck, Austria.
* [22]4th International Information Hiding Workshop (IHW 2001) ,
April 25-27, Pittsburgh, USA.
* [23]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 13-16, Oakland,
California, USA.
* [24]6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and
Privacy (ACISP'01), July 2-4, Sydney, Australia.
* [25]33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), July
6-8, Crete, Greece.
* Crypto 2001, August 19-23, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
* [26]20th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC
2001), August 26-29, 2001, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
* [27]Third International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS), November 13-16, Xian, China.
* [28]Asiacrypt 2001, December 9-13, Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia.
2002
* Eurocrypt 2002, (tentatively: May), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* Crypto 2002, (tentatively: late August), Santa Barbara,
California, USA.
* Asiacrypt 2002, (tentatively: December 1-5), Queenstown, New
Zealand.
References
1. http://www.cert.fr/esorics2000/
2. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2000/ecc2000/announcement.html
3. http://www.ru.is/nordsec2000/
4. http://www.math.twsu.edu/ccc/
5. http://www.ccs2000.org/
6. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~FOCS2000/
7. http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~boston/magc.html
8. http://www.eurubits.de/workshop/
9. http://elec.sch.ac.kr/wisa2000/
10. http://www.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/www/staff/hangai/ac2000/
11. http://dosan.skku.ac.kr/~icisc/
12. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/
13. http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/ccsr/cfp.htm
14. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2001/
15. http://www.isoc.org/ndss2001/
16. http://caislab.icu.ac.kr/pkc01/
17. http://fc01.ai/
18. http://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/CALC/CALC.html
19. http://www.venus.dti.ne.jp/~matsui/FSE2001/
20. http://www.rsaconference.com/rsa2001/cryptotrack.html
21. http://www.ec2001.ocg.at/
22. http://chacs.nrl.navy.mil/IHW2001/
23. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/sp2001.html
24. http://www.cit.nepean.uws.edu.au/~acisp01/
25. http://sigact.acm.org/stoc01/
26. http://www.podc.org/podc2001/
27. http://homex.coolconnect.com/member2/icisa/icics2001.html
28. http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/asiacrypt/
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IACR Contact Information
______________________________________________________________________________
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 Membership Secretary
Technical Outreach and Special Certco Inc.
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: [biham(at)cs.technion.ac.il]
Email: [berson(at)anagram.com]
Voice: +972-4-8294308
Fax: +972-4-8294308
Christian Cachin Ed Dawson
Editor, IACR Newsletter Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Information Security Research Centre
Säumerstrasse 4 Queensland University of Technology
CH-8803 Rüschlikon GPO Box 2434
Switzerland 3060 Washington Road
Email: [cachin(at)acm.org] Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
Phone: +41-1-724-8989 Email: dawson(at)fit.qut.edu.au
Fax: +41-1-724-8953 Phone: +61 7 3864 1919
Fax: +61 7 3221 2384
Whitfield Diffie Joan Feigenbaum
Sun Microsystems, MPK15-214 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cryptology
901 San Antonio Road Department of Computer Science
Palo Alto, California 94303 Yale University
phone: +1 650-786-6359 P. O. Box 208285
fax: +1 650-786-6445 New Haven, CT 06520-8285
Email: USA
[whitfield.diffie(at)eng.sun.com] Email: joan.feigenbaum(at)yale.edu or
[jofc(at)iacr.org]
Phone: +1 203 432 6432
Fax: +1 203 432 0593
Matt Franklin Kwangjo Kim
Crypto 2000 General Chair School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science Information and Communications Univ.
University of California, Davis 58-4 Hwaam-dong Yusong-ku
One Shields Avenue Taejon, 305-348
Davis, CA 95616-8562, USA KOREA
Email: crypto2000(at)iacr.org Tel : +82-42-866-6118
Fax : +82-42-866-6154
E-mail : [kkj (at) icu.ac.kr]
Peter Landrock Tsutomu Matsumoto
Mathematics Institute Division of Artificial Environment and
Aarhus University Systems
Ny Munkegade Yokohama National University
8000 Aarhus C 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya
Denmark Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan
Email: Email: tsutomu(at)mlab.jks.ynu.ac.jp
[landrock(at)cryptomathic.aau.dk]
Ueli Maurer Bart Preneel
Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical Engineering
ETH Zürich Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
CH-8092 Zürich Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94
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Email: [maurer(at)inf.ethz.ch] Belgium
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Tatsuaki Okamoto Paul C. Van Oorschot
NTT Labs Entrust Technologies
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Japan K1V 1A7
USA Canada
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Reinhard Posch Joos Vandewalle
Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Eurocrypt 2000 General Chair
Scientific Director Electrical Engineering Department
Secure Information Technology (ESAT)
Center - AUSTRIA Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Email: Reinhard.Posch(at)iaik.at email :
Joos.Vandewalle(at)esat.kuleuven.ac.be
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