______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer 2002. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * Crypto 2002 program * Call for Papers to Eurocrypt 2003 * Call for Submissions to the Journal of Cryptology * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 * Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2001 * Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2001 * Announcements + Papers Accepted for Presentation at SAC 2002 + PKC 2003, call for papers + Internet Law & Policy Forum: Security v. Privacy + Looking for Argentinian members * New reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * New books * Open positions * Calendar of events in cryptology * IACR contact information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 12th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! This issue of the newsletter contains the usual up-to-date announcements of events in cryptology, open positions, and miscellaneous announcements. For those interested in IACR's business, there are also the final minutes of the Board of Directors Meetings and Membership Meetings held in 2001. The summer is here - at least in the northern hemisphere - and with it Crypto 2002 is approaching in late August. This conference seems more popular than ever: the record number of 175 submissions indicates that the conference is on track! You are welcome to send your contributions to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in October 2002. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website as soon as possible. Christian Cachin IACR Newsletter Editor P.S. If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by email and would like to receive it in the future, then please make sure that the IACR membership directory contains your current email address. A printed copy of the membership list is mailed yearly to all members. ______________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 program ______________________________________________________________________________ The Crypto 2002 program is available from http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2002/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers to Eurocrypt 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS -- EUROCRYPT 2003 May 4--8, 2003, Warsaw, Poland Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Eurocrypt 2003, the 22st Annual Eurocrypt Conference. Eurocrypt 2003 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Submission deadline: November 1, 2002 08:00 GMT Acceptance notification: January 16, 2003 Proceedings version: February 15, 2003 For more information see the IACR website: http://www.iacr.org/ INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by September 15, 2002 at the IACR website. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by November 1, 2002, 08:00 GMT in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 3 copies of an anonymous paper (single-sided copies) to the Program Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the Program Chair on or before October 31, 2002 (or postmarked by October 24, 2002, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and submissions by fax or e-mail 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 have published elsewhere or have 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 18 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 16, 2003. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final versions of the accepted papers will be due on February 15, 2003. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eli Biham, Technion, Israel (Chair) Johannes Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Switzerland Don Coppersmith, IBM Research, USA Ronald Cramer, Aarhus, Denmark Joan Daemen, Protonworld, Belgium Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University, USA Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft, USA Juan Garay, Bell Labs, USA Helena Handschuh, Gemplus, France Stanislaw Jarecki, Stanford, USA Kwangjo Kim, ICU, Korea Lars R. Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark Shiho Moriai, NTT, Japan Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Paul van Oorschot, Carleton University, Canada Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia David Pointcheval, ENS, France Matt Robshaw, Royal Holloway, UK Berry Schoenmakers, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Nigel Smart, University of Bristol, UK Douglas R. Stinson, Waterloo, Canada Serge Vaudenay, EPFL, Switzerland ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS Eli Biham, Program chair Eurocrypt 2003 Computer Science Department Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel ec2003(at)cs.technion.ac.il FOR OTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Jerzy Gawinecki, General chair Eurocrypt 2003 Institute of Mathematics and Operations Research Military University of Technology Kaliskiego Str. 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland Tel: +48-22-6839556 Fax: +48-22-6837919 j.gawinecki(at)imbo.wat.waw.pl 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ Call for Submissions to the Journal of Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ The backlog of papers ready for publication has dropped significantly. A high-quality paper submitted today has good chances of being published within 12 to 15 months. I encourage authors to submit their best work in crypto to the Journal of Cryptology. We need good papers now! Ueli Maurer, Editor-in-Chief ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on May 6-7, 2001 during Eurocrypt 2001 in Innsbruck. Reports were received on the status of Eurocrypt 2001, Crypto 2001, Asiacrypt 2001, Eurocrypt 2002, and Crypto 2002 as well as on the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, IACR membership and Secretariat issues, and IACR finances. The Board accepted (subject to subsequent approval of the budget) a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2003 in Warsaw, Poland with Jerzy Gawinecki as the General Chair and voted to ask Eli Biham to serve as Program Chair. The Board also accepted a proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2003 in Taipei, Taiwan with Chin-Chen Chang as the General Chair and voted to ask Chi-Sung Lai to serve as Program Chair. The Board approved a motion to (when necessary) fund the travel of the IACR President, Vice-President, or designee thereof to attend Asiacrypt conferences. The Board was made aware of the forthcoming completion of the term of Journal Editor Feigenbaum, and a committee consisting of Berson, Feigenbaum, and McCurley was appointed to search for a successor. The Board appointed an Election Committee consisting of Balenson, Desmedt, and McCurley. The Board appointed a committee to explore issues regarding the Secretariat with Clark as Chair, and Beaver, Desmedt, and Langford as members. The Board discussed and ultimately approved a proposal from Preneel to grant FSE the status of "workshop sponsored by the IACR". This includes the IACR's acceptance of financial responsibility and a commitment that FSE will meet financial requirements dictated by the IACR. Workshop dates, budget, venues, and General and Program Chairs would remain under the control of an FSE Steering Committee, but workshop proposals would be presented to the IACR Board for approval or modification at least twelve months prior to each workshop. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Eurocrypt 2001 Innsbruck 6 May 2001 Board President McCurley called the meeting to order at 10:06. Present were Balenson, Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Dawson, Knudsen, Langford, Maurer, McCurley, Posch, Preneel, and Wright. Proxies were held for Diffie and Landrock by Preneel, for Kim and Wolfe by Dawson, and for Feigenbaum by Berson. The agenda of the meeting was approved with additions by Dawson (Asiacrypt Steering Committee), Benaloh (Program Chair guidelines), and Diffie (proposal to fund a historical transcription). ************************************************************************ Minutes of the 20 August 2000 meeting were approved with amendments. Motion by McCurley seconded by Preneel carried 14 to 0. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2001 General Chair Balenson reported on the status of the upcoming conference. He said that all was in order and things were just beginning to get busy and that he was working with Treasurer Langford on on-line banking. He added that he would also be discussing the new budget format (introduced by Crypto 2000 General Chair Franklin) with Langford. Balenson then raised a question that had been asked by Crypto 2001 Program Chair Kilian on page limits. Beaver responded that this is a discretionary matter and that IACR is normally charged by Springer-Verlag in 50 pages increments. Preneel noted that full versions of papers can be published on the web so extended lengths do not need to be accommodated in the proceedings. Benaloh asked if Springer-Verlag had a hard upper limit on number of pages in a single volume to which both Preneel and Beaver responded that their limit was far beyond ours. Beaver noted that there had once been a hard 18-page limit for each paper and McCurley suggested that this was a place where the IACR should not cut corners. McCurley then raised a question that had been asked by Desmedt regarding contingencies for power cut-offs in Santa Barbara. Langford suggested flashlights be given as gifts for attendees and Berson suggested "glow in the dark" items. McCurley suggested that cut-offs would be likely this summer and asked if generators were a viable alternative. Balenson said that he would discuss contingencies with UCSB and that he is working well with Sally Vito. [In early June, Balenson forwarded a letter to the Board indicating that UCSB had been exempted from possible power cut-offs.] Balenson then said that he felt it was the job of a General Chair to insulate the Board from inane requests (to which Berson mused that he was failing at that moment). Balenson concluded by noting that registration materials would be available by the end of May. ________________________________________________________________________ Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch then reported on the conference. He said that as of 4 May 2001 there were 460 registrants representing 38 countries with more than 60 students representing 13 countries. He noted that there were few students from the U.S. and wondered if there was a bias among U.S. students towards the Crypto conference. Posch suggested that electronic registration would be very helpful and also expressed the view that a single point of responsibility (rather than responsibilities shared between the Secretariat and the local booking service) would be a substantial improvement. He suggested that the registration form either omit hotel booking (perhaps giving information for individual booking) or centralize booking with other registration tasks. McCurley suggested concerns about hotel funds going through the Secretariat and observed the necessity of advanced block reservations. Posch responded that block reservations require a 15% advanced payment. Wright commented on the value of block reservations. McCurley indicated that these issues are precisely why a local General Chair is so important for Eurocrypt. Posch expressed a desire for more flexibility from the Secretariat. Langford noted that the Secretariat would like to have electronic registration. Beaver added that the Secretariat does not want to assume any liability. Posch indicated that payments were not at issue but rather difficulties in direct communication between the General Chair and the Secretariat. Posch expressed a desire to collect funds in euros rather than dollars. Langford asked about consistency with multiple currencies and noted that most U.S. banks won't accept euros. Posch replied that euros would be sensible given the demographic of registrants. McCurley suggested that opening a European bank account might make sense. Clark noted that time differences are a problem and suggested that the General Chair Guidelines may need revision. McCurley questioned whether electronic registration could be replaced by better communication. Clark asked whether there had been specific transmission problems. Posch responded that he received faxes from the Secretariat followed by an electronic spreadsheet. McCurley offered to meet with Beaver and Langford to discuss these issues further. McCurley then asked about the feasibility of opening a European bank account. Langford agreed to explore this and look into other U.S. banks. Balenson confirmed that these issues would have no impact on Crypto 2001. Posch then reported that Eurocrypt 2001 had only small deviations from the proposed budget. McCurley inquired about the effect of currency fluctuation, and Posch responded that the IACR has profited from the exchange rates. Desmedt arrived at this point. Posch stated that he expected a surplus of approximately $40,000. He noted that he had budgeted for the conference to break even with 300 attendees and a euro rate of $1.13 - $1.15 and that the budget had benefited from both higher registration and a stronger dollar. McCurley noted that it appeared that things were going smoothly and that the General Chair had done a good job of handling problems. ________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair Dawson then reported on the conference. Langford noted that Asiacrypt 2000 had shown a surplus of approximately $4,000. Dawson began by discussing the Asiacrypt Steering Committee and announced that he had accepted a 2-year appointment replacing E. Okamoto as chair and that E. Okamoto would take the position of vice-chair. He then reminded the Board of the dates for Asiacrypt 2001 as 9-13 December 2001 with the venue of the Gold Coast of Australia (approximately one hour south of Brisbane). He said that the technical sessions would be held at Somerset College which is approximately 20 minutes by car from the accommodations. He noted bus service would be provided and that lunchtime entertainment had been arranged. McCurley asked if closer accommodations were available and Dawson replied that they were not. Desmedt asked that registrants be informed of the climate in advance. McCurley recommended careful co-ordination with the Secretariat. Dawson said that booking would be handled locally and that a 15% deposit had already been paid. He described accommodations in the Concord Hotel at Aus$114/room/night and at the Grand Mercure Hotel at Aus$130/room/night. Dawson also noted that Arjen Lenstra and Brendon McKay would be invited speakers and estimated the registration costs to be US$450/person. Berson mentioned that Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe had, at the Asiacrypt 2000 meeting of the Asiacrypt Steering Committee, expressed difficulty in communicating with the Board and that a travel budget for the General Chair was a concern of his. Dawson asked that the IACR President or a representative attend Asiacrypt Steering Committee meetings, and Berson responded that the Board had decided by e-mail to do so. McCurley suggested that future IACR presidents receive funding to attend all (non-local) IACR conferences. Preneel noted that a representative of the President may be sufficient. McCurley added that Asiacrypt should schedule and hold an IACR Business meeting. Dawson then announced that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee had recommended accepting a proposal from Taiwan to host Asiacrypt 2003. McCurley noted that that a prior Taiwan proposal had been rejected because of confusion regarding bundling of the proposal with a proposed Program Chair and asked that the Board be more sensitive to cultural differences. Dawson expressed the view that it would be important to have a Program Chair from Taiwan. McCurley asked Dawson if he saw problems with the proposal, and Dawson replied that he saw no major difficulties. Wright asked if other proposals had been received, and Dawson responded that the Taiwan proposal was the only substantial one (noting that a previous Taiwan proposal was cancelled due to an earthquake). Benaloh suggested that it was important for the Board to be clear in exercising its control over the choice of Program Chair. McCurley agreed but added that sensitivity was also important. Maurer expressed concerns over the Program Chair selection process. ________________________________________________________________________ At 11:28, the Board agreed to an eight-minute recess. The meeting reconvened at 11:43. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley said that he felt that Asiacrypt 2001 looked fine and asked Dawson if he had any details on the status of Asiacrypt 2002. Dawson said that he did not. McCurley then raised the issue of travel budgets for General Chairs. Preneel asked "What's in it?" for the Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair. McCurley said that the Board will not pay for General Chair travel. Dawson noted that Wolfe was scheduled to arrive in Innsbruck that afternoon. Clark asked that we formalize the Board position on travel for the IACR President which had been discussed in prior e-mail. Cachin drafted the following motion. ************************************************************************ If financial constraints do not permit either the IACR President or Vice-President to do so, IACR should cover Asiacrypt costs for the President, the Vice-President, or a designee thereof from the IACR general budget. Motion by Clark seconded by Berson carried 19 to 0. ************************************************************************ Dawson asked if these funds were to be out of the General Chair's budget. McCurley responded that this was intended to be paid for out of general IACR funds. McCurley then suggested an order for funding be the IACR President, followed by the Vice-President, followed by a designee thereof. Dawson asked if this would be in effect immediately, and both Berson and Clark said that it would. ________________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the conference. She said that she was awaiting receipt of the General Chair guidelines. Balenson said that he was not relying on the guidelines for Crypto 2001, and Beaver said that the guidelines were out of date. Wright said that she will rely on tradition in planning. Desmedt asked if a reduction in submissions had been a problem. Benaloh responded that submissions were comparable for Eurocrypt 2001 and Crypto 2001. ________________________________________________________________________ Benaloh then raised the issue of differences among Program Chairs and asked if the guidelines required modifications. Maurer said that personal dedication is fundamental in Program Chairs. McCurley suggested that guidelines are necessary to set expectations. Preneel expressed the view that lack on continuity is a problem. Cachin said that the lack of permanent IACR hardware requires each Program Chair to do work setting up submission and review software. Preneel said that the Eurocrypt 2000 software is being maintained. Clark said that both the Program Chair and General Chair guidelines are out of date and asked members of the Board to submit changes to Maurer. Desmedt suggested that Preneel's role as Eurocrypt 2000 Program Chair made his experiences particularly valuable here. McCurley asked that both Posch and Balenson critique the General Chair guidelines. Langford recommended forking the Crypto General Chair guidelines from those for Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt. McCurley suggested a single document with separate sections. Benaloh asked if it would improve continuity to add a recommendation to the Program Chair guidelines that upcoming Program Chairs be included either as regular Program Committee members of as formal observers. He then asked how this might best be implemented -- by recommending that the Program Chair for the chronologically subsequent IACR conference be added, by recommending that the Program chair for the next in that series of IACR conferences be added, or by recommending that the Program Chairs for the next three IACR conferences be added. McCurley said that the Board had the prerogative to make suggestions in this regard. Preneel expressed the view that the next three Program Chairs were too many. Clark suggested that continuity can be preserved by updating the guidelines and that communication needs improvement. Maurer accepted the responsibility of contacting and maintaining contact with Program Chairs. ________________________________________________________________________ A proposal to host Asiacrypt 2003 in Taipei, Taiwan was then presented by Shiuh Pyng Shieh. Chi-Sung Laih and Chu-Hsing Lin were also in attendance. Proposed dates were 30 November through 4 December, 2003 with the Grand Hotel of Taipei as the venue. Room rates were given as approximately US$120/night and registration costs were estimated at US$450 (exclusive of IACR membership). Support from other organizations was estimated to be US$50,000. The proposal was made in cooperation with the Chinese Cryptography and Information Security Association and included Chin-Chen Chang as General Chair. It also recommended Chi-Sung Laih as Program Chair. McCurley noted that the proposed General Chair was not present and that the proposed conference room was limited to 400 people. Shieh responded that the proposed conference facilities could accommodate up to 600 people, and Dawson noted that the largest Asiacrypt to date had fewer than 300 attendees. Schoenmakers arrived at this point. McCurley sought clarification that the conference room would be adequate, and Dawson assured him that the facility is fine. Langford asked if the estimated US$450 registration fee included IACR membership, and Shieh responded that it did not. Clark asked what the sponsorship funds were to be used for, and Shieh responded that they would be used to subsidize costs. McCurley noted that the date might conflict with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (Nov. 27, 2003). Dawson asked about airline connections to Taipei, and Shieh responded that many direct flights are available. Wright asked about the climate, and Shieh responded that average temperature that time of year was approximately 63 degrees F. McCurley asked Laih about his understanding of the IACR policy that the Program Chair decision is made by the Board separately from the decision of venue. Laih responded that he was familiar with the procedures. Maurer introduced himself to Laih as the Board liaison. Laih expressed the view that communication should not be a problem. McCurley noted that Asiacrypt 2003 will include a Distinguished Lecture that will be chosen by the Board. Clark offered his thanks for the proposal, and applause was given by all. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then discussed the proposal with attention given to the issue of how the Program Chair is selected. Benaloh noted concerns that there was an impression that a Program Chair was part of the proposal. McCurley suggested that this issue was sensitive and takes time to get precise and claimed this to be the responsibility of the IACR President. Wright expressed the view that the proposal was sufficiently flexible. Beaver suggested that the Board would have no difficulties rejecting future proposals in which the Program Chair was an integral component. Preneel suggested the need for an updated set of proposal guidelines. Dawson asked if the Asiacrypt Steering Committee should recommend a Program Committee Chair, and McCurley said that it should not. He then expressed regrets that the Board does not have a greater Asian representation. McCurley suggested that this issue needed to be clarified to the Asiacrypt Steering Committee, and Dawson responded that it had not been discussed there. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted to accept the Asiacrypt 2003 proposal for Taipei, Taiwan. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ In a separate vote, the Board then voted to ask Chi-Sung Laih to serve as Program Chair for Asiacrypt 2003. [Laih subsequently accepted.] ************************************************************************ The Board then recessed for lunch at 13:08. ________________________________________________________________________ During lunch, McCurley reported on the status of the Journal of Cryptology. He said that things were running smoothly with no outstanding issues but that the contract with Springer-Verlag would need to be renewed shortly. McCurley reported that this would be a transition year for the Journal as Journal Editor Feigenbaum intended to retire at the end of the following year. He then expressed a need for a new editor to be selected by the end of the current year in order to facilitate the transition. Several names were suggested, and McCurley appointed a committee consisting of himself, Feigenbaum, and Berson to select a new editor. McCurley also asked for the Board view on electronic publishing. Beaver suggested that Springer-Verlag would be supportive of "co-publishing". ________________________________________________________________________ The Board reconvened at 14:12. Eurocrypt 2002 General Chair Schoenmakers reported on the conference. McCurley began by apologizing to Schoenmakers about recent communication problems which he said needed to be addressed. Schoenmakers gave the dates of the conference as 28 April through 2 May, 2002 with the conference venue in the five-star Hotel Okura in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He said that the facility included a 500-person lecture room and estimated the registration fee to be US$580. He gave details about the planned social program and noted the 30 April "Queen's Day" holiday in The Netherlands. Clark asked how many attendees were required for the conference to break even, and Schoenmakers responded that the estimate was 400. Schoenmakers also gave the conference web site URL of http://www.ec2002.tue.nl. ________________________________________________________________________ Landrock then introduced Jerzy Gawinecki to offer a proposal for Eurocrypt 2003. Gawinecki described a proposal to host Eurocrypt 2003 in Warsaw Poland 6-10 May 2003 at the Hotel Victoria which has a conference facility capable of holding 500-600 people. He estimated the registration fee to be US$600 with a break even point at approximately 450 attendees. ________________________________________________________________________ Membership Secretary Beaver then reported on membership issues and relations with the IACR Secretariat. Beaver reported that the UCSB was undergoing an audit and that a new contract could not be negotiated until the audit was completed. He said that the status quo would remain in effect until that time. Beaver noted that the present Eurocrypt conference would have no direct presence from the Secretariat but that Sally Vito would be available by telephone. He also noted that the UCSB conference services were somewhat stressed since their best programmer had left. Beaver said that Springer-Verlag would be offering electronic access for the Journal of Cryptology that coming summer. He also noted that IACR membership was down to 921 from 959 the previous year. Langford asked to be involved in payment discussions with the Secretariat. ________________________________________________________________________ The issue of possible affiliate conference status was then discussed. Preneel offered a proposal for FSE to be given the status of the first IACR affiliated workshop. The proposal included the following points. 1. FSE maintains control of its conference venues, General Chairs, and Program Chairs. 2. IACR accepts financial risk and responsibility for FSE. 3. FSE cash reserves would be turned over to the IACR. 4. FSE registrants would become IACR members. 5. FSE can use the phrase "Sponsored by IACR". McCurley asked who the members of the FSE Steering Committee were. Knudsen responded that the FSE Steering Committee consisted of the union of the previous two FSE Program Committees. Preneel asserted that it was not clear whether the FSE Program Committee would always be identical to the FSE Steering Committee. Posch left the meeting at this point. Benaloh inquired about the size of FSE. Preneel responded that the last FSE had approximately 120 registrants which was smaller than recent FSEs, it was believed, because it was no longer linked with AES workshops and because the venue was in Japan. McCurley asked about possible risks while suggesting that risks seemed to be minor. He then expressed his desire that there be a clear process and asked what the process was for selection of the FSE Steering Committee. Wright asked if most FSE attendees were IACR members, and Preneel responded that most already were. Landrock expressed his view that FSE is a substantial conference that is worthy of IACR sponsorship. Biham predicted that FSE registration would continue to be in excess of 100 people for several years to come. Berson noted that FSE was successful without significant organization and seconded Landrock's support. Benaloh expressed a desire for clarification of rules of Steering Committee selection, Program Chair selection, and the like. Clark suggested that the IACR was still struggling with the addition of Asiacrypt and, although he wanted to endorse FSE, he expressed concern about the IACR's ability to support it adequately. He also said that any agreed upon relationship must be made clear to the IACR membership. Berson suggested the need for a proposal detailing the relationship of FSE to the IACR. McCurley indicated that since the FSE scope was, unlike Asiacrypt, different from other IACR conferences, he felt that it needn't fit the same IACR model. Maurer asked if the scope of FSE could be broadened. Biham responded that the scope included more than just stream ciphers. Clark asked for a more specific proposal, and McCurley asked that there be written rules. Wright asked for a straw poll to gauge the support on the Board for incorporating FSE as an IACR-sponsored workshop. Support was unanimous. Benaloh asked if the FSE Steering Committee should select FSE Program Chairs. The general consensus was that it should. Desmedt then announced that the PKC Steering Committee is prepared to seek sponsorship. McCurley said that the Board could entertain a formal proposal at lunch the following day. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then discussed the proposal for Eurocrypt 2003. ************************************************************************ The Board voted to accept the proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2003 in Warsaw, Poland subject to the approval of a budget at the Crypto 2001 Board meeting. The motion was made by Maurer and seconded by McCurley and carried 17-0 with 2 abstentions. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then took up the issue of planning for 2001 elections. An Election Committee was appointed consisting of McCurley, Balenson, and Desmedt. McCurley asked that all members of the Board work to recruit good candidates. Maurer expressed a desire to find a good candidate for president immediately. For historical completeness, Berson was asked to list the prior IACR presidents. He provided the following list. Denning Massey Berson (1 5-year term) Landrock (2 2-year terms) McCurley (2 3-year terms) ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then gave a financial report. She reported that Eurocrypt 2000 had a total income of $221,000 of which $60,000 was returned to the IACR ($33,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, and a surplus of $17,000). She reported that Crypto 2000 had a total income of $236,000 (not including income for on-campus lodging) of which $83,000 was returned to the IACR ($27,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, and a surplus of $46,000). She reported that Asiacrypt 2000 had a total income of $112,000 of which $26,000 was returned to the IACR ($12,000 in IACR dues, a $10,000 allocation for the Secretariat, and a surplus of $4,000). Langford then reported that the IACR had reserves of approximately $350,000 as of 31 December 2000 with assets consisting of $203,000 held in certificates of deposit, approximately $149,000 held in checking accounts, and $175,000 held by UCSB and liabilities of $66,000 for the Journal of Cryptology (the bill for which arrived in January 2001) and $110,000 designated for specific expenditures in 2001. Langford described the IACR Secretariat as her primary concern. She also said that monetary limits on conference gifts may be desirable. McCurley suggested that sponsorship of conference gifts might be possible. Berson noted that gifts have traditionally been representative of the locale. Straw polls were then taken in which the Board voted 9-2 that $30 was an excessive expenditure on a gift, 5-8 against objecting to a sponsored gift, and unanimously in favor of student sponsorship. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the status of the Newsletter and related issues. Cachin reported that things were generally going well despite some problems with low-quality submissions to the ePrint server. He said that reports were being solicited for the Newsletter with a June 1 deadline for the next issue. McCurley thanked Cachin for his work on the IACR web site, and applause was given by all. Cachin suggested that ePrint submissions should be distinguished from published papers (including those in proceedings). Biham suggested that the Election Committee submit a report for the next issue of the Newsletter. ________________________________________________________________________ Additional business was then discussed. Preneel asked about possible updates to the IACR proceedings CD-ROM, and McCurley responded that electronic access to past proceedings would be forthcoming. Clark said that he would like to have on-line access to the IACR member database and information on conference payments, and he agreed to chair a committee on which Langford, Beaver, and Desmedt would serve. McCurley raised the issue of the Felton, et. al. paper describing a break to the SDMI protocol and his subsequent withdrawal of that paper upon threat of legal action. Desmedt noted that the threat of legal action was directed against both the authors and the conference. McCurley asked what we would do if this happened at an IACR conference. Beaver asked whether this was about academic freedom or an NDA violation. Berson said that we should wait until we see details of any such potential case. ************************************************************************ The Board then voted (in his absence) to ask Eli Biham to serve as Eurocrypt 2003 Program Chair. Biham accepted upon his return. ************************************************************************ ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then compiled a list of items to be discussed at the forthcoming Business meeting. The list included announcements of upcoming IACR conferences (Crypto 2001, Asiacrypt 2001, and Eurocrypt 2002), forthcoming elections for three IACR Directors and all four IACR Officers, reports on the Newsletter and ePrint server, the Journal of Cryptology, and finances, and an announcement of a possible Board decision to accept FSE as an IACR-sponsored workshop. ________________________________________________________________________ The Board then adjourned at 17:33. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Board of Directors Supplemental Meeting Eurocrypt 2001 Innsbruck 7 May 2001 Board President McCurley called the supplemental meeting to order at 13:17. Present were Balenson, Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Dawson, Desmedt, Diffie, Knudsen, Landrock, Langford, Maurer, McCurley, Posch, Preneel, Schoenmakers, and Wright. McCurley told the Board that he had had discussions with Jerzy Gawinecki regarding the proposal for Eurocrypt 2003. Berson suggested that Josef Pierprzyk could act as a liaison. McCurley also spoke about some issues regarding Asiacrypt 2002 and announced for those who had missed it that Biham had accepted the offer to serve as Program Chair for Eurocrypt 2003. Preneel then presented a written proposal for FSE to be accepted as a workshop sponsored by the IACR. In addition to a history of FSE workshops dating back to 1993 and a short description of the goal of FSE, the proposal (after subsequent amendment) included the following elements. 1. Interaction with IACR. As of May 2001, the FSE Steering Committee consists of the following 10 members: Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, Don Coppersmith, Cunsheng Ding, Dieter Gollmann, Lars Knudsen, James Massey, Mitsuru Matsui, Bart Preneel, and Serge Vaudenay. The FSE Steering Committee intends to be representative for researchers in the area. The FSE Steering Committee may decide to nominate new members. All formal interactions between FSE and the IACR Board of Directors are made through the FSE Spokesperson. The FSE Steering Committee will designate a Spokesperson to be an observer on the IACR Board of Directors. The FSE Steering Committee conducts most of its business by email. It also meets at every FSE workshop. The IACR Board of Directors is represented by an observer on the FSE Steering Committee. 2. Workshops The FSE Steering Committee submits at least 12 months before the workshop a complete proposal for FSE to the IACR Board. The proposal includes General Chair, venue, budget, and Program Chair. This proposal is obtained after a screening process internal to the FSE Steering Committee. The IACR Board can approve this proposal or it can ask for revisions. 3. IACR takes financial liability for FSE, which implies that surpluses go to the IACR and losses are covered by the IACR. Any accepted workshop shall be run according to the IACR's financial guidelines for workshops. IACR shall take responsibility for accepted FSE workshops. 4. FSE attendees become members of the IACR and pay membership dues. 5. FSE can use the phrase "workshop sponsored by the IACR". McCurley asked about the financial status of FSE. Preneel responded that FSE had a small surplus that was in the custody of Bruce Schneier. McCurley asked that FSE representatives review details of IACR accounting, and Clark suggested that a requirement be added that FSE will employ accounting conventions consistent with minimum requirements of the IACR. McCurley noted that the IACR has a legal accounting obligation, but Langford indicated that the IACR does not have to account for monies that it does not control. McCurley then expressed the view that the IACR does not need to hear FSE proposals twelve months in advance and suggested that this requirement be changed to "in a timely manner". Cachin asked whether it would be necessary to amend the IACR By-Laws, and McCurley responded that this is already provided for. Desmedt inquired about payment mechanisms employed by FSE, and Langford responded that the payment mechanism should be up to FSE. McCurley suggested that the IACR Treasurer have access to an appropriately labeled joint account, but Langford noted that IACR conferences typically have their own accounts. Diffie asked if the FSE Program Chair would have a seat on the IACR Board, and Preneel responded that this would not be the case. McCurley indicated his understanding that the IACR would provide funds and support. Beaver asked if a separate continuing FSE account would change its status. McCurley expressed the view that FSE financial reporting should be consistent with IACR conferences, that the Treasurer should have access to accounts, and that reporting requirements be imposed. Wright inquired whether we could just say that FSE must meet IACR requirements. McCurley indicated that this was a precedent and expressed the opinion that uniform accounting would be necessary and that every possible step should be taken to ease the burden on the IACR Treasurer. Clark asked if FSE would accept minimum accounting requirements, and Preneel responded that it would. Clark then expressed the view that this should suffice. McCurley noted that IACR conferences have a responsible member of the IACR Board. Clark noted that the representation for FSE would not be dissimilar to that for Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt. He then suggested that the IACR Treasurer put minimum accounting requirements in writing. Wright suggested that concerns would be different for workshops less successful than FSE. Beaver expressed concerns regarding access to funds. Benaloh suggested that references to accounting requirements be changed to financial requirements. Wright noted that the FSE Steering Committee may dissolve its relationship with the IACR. Desmedt asked what FSE stands for, and Preneel responded that the ambiguity is intentional to allow for a possible change. Desmedt expressed the view that specificity of the scope of FSE was necessary to maintain its specialization, but Wright noted that the IACR can discontinue its sponsorship at time. ************************************************************************ The FSE proposal, with the five points listed above, was then offered as a motion by Clark, seconded by Cachin, and carried 21-0 with no abstentions. ************************************************************************ Berson then asked that this information be added to the agenda of the forthcoming Business meeting. ________________________________________________________________________ Diffie then brought an informal proposal to the Board which had been raised in a prior e-mail exchange. He said that the previous September, the final analysis of the "Tunny" cipher had been declassified and that he was in the process of transcribing and typesetting this work. He said that funds had already been secured for this effort, but that if the IACR were to support it, its members could be eligible for a discount from the MIT Press. He estimated total costs for this project to be at $15,000. Berson noted that it might be possible to channel private funding through the IACR. Diffie said that he would like to take this up with the Board via e-mail. Desmedt noted that any tax deductions for this purpose would likely be limited to U.S. nationals. Diffie emphasized the historical interest in this work. Preneel asked about copyright issues, and Diffie responded that the MIT Press would hold the copyright. At this point, several members of the Board began to leave as technical sessions of the conference were about to resume. Diffie offered to make a specific proposal in the future. The supplemental Board meeting then adjourned at 14:24. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2001 Business Meeting Eurocrypt 2001 Innsbruck 9 May 2001 IACR President McCurley began the meeting at 16:10. McCurley began by welcoming attendees to the Business meeting and describing the history and mission of the IACR. He noted that the IACR is a non-profit association that was founded in 1983 and that its purpose is to advance both the theory and practice of cryptologic research. He indicated the organization had approximately 1,000 members. McCurley then described various activities of the IACR including the annual Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt conferences, the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, the web site at http://www.iacr.org, and the ePrint Archive. McCurley then individually introduced the Officers and Directors of the IACR. Next, McCurley described the elections that would be held in the fall of 2001. He noted that all four IACR Officer positions (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer) and three additional Director positions (those currently held by Biham, Diffie, and Landrock) would be up for election of three-year terms to commence at the beginning of 2002. McCurley introduced the Election Committee consisting of himself, Balenson, and Desmedt, and he encouraged people to consider running for positions on the IACR Board. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then invited Eurocrypt 2001 Program Chair Pfitzmann to the podium while reminding the audience that IACR is a volunteer organization that depends upon the efforts of its members. He then thanked Pfitzmann and awarded her a plaque in appreciation of her work as Program Chair. Applause was given by all. McCurley then invited Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch to the podium. He thanked Posch and awarded him a plaque in appreciation of his work as General Chair. Applause was given by all. ________________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then gave a financial report. She noted that the IACR was financially sound and listed financial results for year 2000 IACR conferences. She said that Eurocrypt 2000 had returned a $17,000 surplus on income of $221,000, that Crypto 2000 had returned a surplus of $46,000 on income of $236,000, and that Asiacrypt 2000 had returned a surplus of $4,000 on income of $112,000. Langford said that full costs for administrative services provided by the IACR Secretariat had been paid. She said that the IACR held $203,000 in certificates of deposit, $150,000 in checking accounts, and $175,000 in other accounts, and that the total reserves of the IACR (after discounting liabilities) was approximately $350,000. Langford then noted that the IACR does practice price discrimination by providing subsidies to students (something felt to be of general benefit to the community) and by charging higher fees for late registration (since funds are needed well in advance of conferences). She then noted that conferences are budgeted to break even. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then told the audience that dues for the IACR are included in conference registration costs and include the Journal of Cryptology and access to membership services. He said that dues were currently $80 and noted that about 3/4 of this amount was used to pay for the Journal of Cryptology. He also noted that present year's dues pay for the following year's membership in the IACR. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on the Journal of Cryptology in the absence of Journal Editor Feigenbaum. He said that the Journal was in good shape and encouraged members to submit research papers. He then noted that Feigenbaum's term as Journal Editor would be expiring at the end of 2001 and solicited comments from the membership for a new Editor-in-Chief. He said that Feigenbaum had done a great job at a thankless task. Brian Snow asked what the current backlog for the Journal was, and McCurley responded that it was about six months. ________________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive. He said that the Newsletter was published thrice annually and sent by e-mail to IACR members and was also available at http://www.iacr.org/newsletter. He noted that the next issue would be closing at the end of May and invited submissions to be sent to newsletter@iacr.org. Cachin then reported on the ePrint Archive. He said that technical reports, pre-prints, and full versions of papers were accepted without refereeing and made available at http://eprint.iacr.org. Rich Schroeppel noted that he had not received that Newsletter by e-mail. Cachin suggested that Schroeppel check to make certain that his correct e-mail address was listed with his membership data. Schroeppel then asked whether the ePrint Archive accepted editorials, and Cachin replied that it did so long as they were technical. Cachin then reminded the audience that the Newsletter is available on the web and includes book reviews, conference announcements, job announcements, and other information of interest to the community. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then announced details of upcoming IACR conferences. Crypto 2001 is scheduled for 19-23 August 2001 in Santa Barbara. The General Chair is Dave Balenson, and the Program Chair is Joe Kilian. Asiacrypt 2001 is scheduled for 9-13 December 2001 on the Gold Coast of Australia. The General Chair is Ed Dawson, and the Program Chair is Colin Boyd. Eurocrypt 2002 is scheduled for 28 April - 2 May, 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The General Chair is Barry Schoenmakers, and the Program Chair is Lars Knudsen. Crypto 2002 is tentatively scheduled for the third week in August in Santa Barbara. The General Chair is Rebecca Wright, and the Program Chair is Moti Yung. Asiacrypt 2002 is tentatively scheduled for 1-5 December 2002 in Queenstown, New Zealand. The General Chair is Henry Wolfe, and the Program Chair is Yuliang Zheng. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then told the audience that IACR membership services are provided by the IACR Secretariat at UCSB and that personal information can be updated by e-mailing iacrmem@iacr.org. He noted that the Secretariat also handles registration for conferences and mailing of the Journal of Cryptology. ________________________________________________________________________ Brian Snow said that most conferences don't bill in advance and questioned why this was done at IACR conferences. Langford replied that the IACR had already paid deposits to hotels for Eurocrypt 2002 but promised to look into this with the UCSB where the billing is done. Snow asserted that he had had to register late because had he registered normally he would have been charged before the conference and before he could obtain reimbursement. Diffie suggested that one's sponsoring agency might be able to pay the bill directly, and McCurley noted that the credit card charge appears as "University of California" which might be confusing to some. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on the IACR Board decision to provide sponsorship of future FSE workshops. He noted that a proposal was made by the FSE Steering Committee and approved by the IACR Board. Diffie noted that this had taken place after more debate than any other subject. McCurley said that the IACR would assume financial responsibility for FSE as of 2002, that the FSE Steering Committee would run the actual workshop, and that copyrights for FSE proceedings would be assigned to the IACR. Berson noted the use of the term "workshop" rather than "conference". Markus Dichtl asked what FSE is. Biham responded by listing several members of the FSE Steering Committee including himself, Knudsen, Matsui, Preneel, Massey, and Vaudenay and said that this was FSE's first Program Committee plus several additional members. Dichtl asked about the process of sponsorship. McCurley responded that FSE workshops would be approved by the IACR Board on an annual basis. McCurley then noted that other workshops have also sought this sponsorship and that this strains the resources of the IACR, but that the FSE Steering Committee is extremely well-run. Schroeppel then asked if it was the intent of FSE workshops to break even, and McCurley responded that this was the case to the extent possible. McCurley noted that IACR budgets conservatively for the number of expected attendees. Diffie noted that FSE broke even in 1999, turned a small surplus in 2000, and that numbers for 2001 were not yet known. ________________________________________________________________________ McCurley then asked for a straw poll from the audience about how many people would NOT use on-line registration because of privacy, security, or other concerns. Approximately nine hands were raised in the audience of approximately one hundred. Schroeppel said that he had had mixed experiences with on-line transactions. Desmedt noted that processing could be less expensive. Hilarie Orman requested that this NOT be done using JavaScript. Brian Snow said that he assumed that on-line registration would be optional, and McCurley responded that it would be. McCurley also noted that database management might be easier electronically. Snow suggested that e-mail could solve this concern. McCurley then asked how many members would use on-line tools to manage their IACR records. Almost all of the audience members raised their hands. Clark noted that IACR incurs approximately $6,000 in annual mailing costs and asked whether members liked the idea of sending registration by e-mail. Almost all of the audience members raised their hands in approval. Snow requested that e-mail registration forms be supplied in both a basic ASCII format and a "pretty" format. Greg Rose noted that a lack of paper registration forms makes distribution to colleagues more difficult. McCurley suggested that there were trade-offs. Mike Wiener asked if such a service could be used to obtain membership information. McCurley responded that it would not in order to prevent "crawling" to access personal data. McCurley suggested that this site would be password protected and would only be used to facilitate update of records. ________________________________________________________________________ At 16:52, McCurley opened the floor for other business. Rose noted to members that the airline code for the Gold Coast of Australia is "OOL". Dawson then noted that busses and trains are available from Brisbane. Orman asked about a possible update to the IACR conference CD-ROM. McCurley responded that the previous CD-ROM had sold out but that Springer-Verlag may reprint it. In response to the issue of an update, McCurley said that the CD-ROM was currently full, but that Springer-Verlag now had all conferences on-line and that the IACR is working to make access available to all of its members. Orman described the CD-ROM as a vital resource and suggested rolling the content. McCurley said that he felt that rolling was a good idea, but that Springer-Verlag would prefer to give electronic access. Orman expressed the concern that electronic access would be cumbersome. Orman then suggested that there be some accommodation made to accept short papers at one or more of the IACR annual conferences. McCurley responded that the rump sessions serve some of this function and that the Program Chairs have wide discretion. Desmedt added that previous IACR conferences have had varying talk lengths and that this was upsetting to authors. Orman expressed the view that this should not be upsetting if pre-arranged. McCurley asked for a sense of the audience, and about a dozen members expressed support for a short paper category. Niels Ferguson asked if there was a good outlet for short papers, and Cachin suggested that they be submitted to the ePrint Archive. Schroeppel asked what provisions existed for a record of the rump sessions, and Diffie responded that varying accommodations have been made in the past. Schroeppel then asked who holds the copyright on the Journal of Cryptology, and McCurley responded that copyright is held by the IACR. A member then asked about details for Eurocrypt 2003, and McCurley said that an announcement would be made when details were finalized. Orman then noted that there is much good crypto-related material available on the web and suggested that the IACR could perform a service by collating this material. McCurley responded that Avi Ruben has built such an index, and said that it might be useful for the IACR to do something similar but that it would require significant maintenance. Brian Snow observed that the NSA provides similar services for U.S. universities. A member asked whether the IACR intends to include Asiacrypt conference proceedings on a CD-ROM, and McCurley replied that at the time the CD-ROM was assembled, only Eurocrypt and Crypto were IACR conferences. McCurley then said that if an update to the CD-ROM was done, then such an addition might be possible. Markus Dichtl expressed an objection to the fact that payment for Eurocrypt was done in U.S. dollars rather than euros and noted that IACR risks currency fluctuation in doing so. McCurley responded that the IACR takes a risk either way since a significant portion of the Eurocrypt expenditures are in U.S. dollars and noted that the euro does not apply in non-eurozone nations. Langford added that U.S. banks are limited in their world view and that she was not willing to spend an unlimited amount of time on the issue. Langford said that she has been told that Visa and MasterCard require payments through UCSB to be in U.S. dollars. Langford then added that having a non-U.S. bank account adds burdens but that she is working on this while noting that currently fluctuations have generally been small. McCurley added that payments through UCSB allow consistency, control, and fiscal integrity and then asked how many people were irritated by the U.S. dollar payments. Nine members raised their hands to indicate their irritation. [Note, UCSB charges the IACR a substantially lower fee for credit card payments than would be obtained independently (about 2% versus 4%). This 2% differential represents a significant savings for the IACR.] Clark then noted that the priorities of the IACR include some costly items and that approximately $25 of member dues go to support these costs. Niels Ferguson suggested that we evaluate potential benefits before investing. Desmedt asked in what currency the Journal of Cryptology is paid for. Langford replied that the Journal is paid for in U.S. dollars but that the conference proceedings are paid for in German deutschmarks. A member asked if it would be possible to include a CD-ROM with each proceedings. McCurley responded that this was a low priority and then asked how many members would pay an extra $10 for a CD-ROM with the proceedings. Most members indicated that they would be willing to pay the extra $10. McCurley noted that a CD-ROM alone would cause a V.A.T. to be added and that it was therefore valuable to bundle the CD-ROM with printed proceedings. Ferguson suggested including a CD-ROM with the entire most recent year of IACR conference proceedings. McCurley estimated that this would cost approximately $10 per copy. The meeting was adjourned at 17:19. ________________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2001 ************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************ The IACR Board of Directors met on August 19, 2001 during Crypto 2001 in Santa Barbara. Reports were received on the final disposition of Asiacrypt 2000 and Eurocrypt 2001 and the status of Crypto 2001, Asiacrypt 2001, Eurocrypt 2002, Crypto 2002, Asiacrypt 2002, and Eurocrypt 2003. Additional reports were received on the status of the Journal of Cryptology, the IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive, IACR membership and Secretariat issues, IACR finances, and the Asiacrypt Steering Committee. The Board accepted a final proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2003 in Warsaw, Poland with Jerzy Gawinecki as the General Chair and Eli Biham as Program Chair. The Board appointed Ueli Maurer to a three-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology commencing on January 1, 2002. The Board invited David Chaum to deliver the 2002 IACR Distinguished Lecture. The Board voted to appoint Greg Rose as General Chair of Crypto 2003 and Dan Boneh as Program Chair. The Board added McCurley and Wright to the committee to study issues regarding the IACR Secretariat. The committee is chaired by Clark, and has Beaver, Desmedt, and Langford as prior members. The purview of the committee was extended to include studying the IT needs of the IACR. The Board appointed a committee to consider what, if any, response should be taken by the IACR to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The committee consisted of Beaver, Clark, Desmedt, Feigenbaum, McCurley, and Wright. The Board decided to change the name of future Business Meetings to "Membership" Meetings and to take other actions to attempt to make these meetings more attractive to IACR membership. ************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************ Board of Directors Meeting Crypto 2001 Santa Barbara 19 August 2001 Board President McCurley called the meeting to order at 10:03. Present were Balenson, Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Cachin, Clark, Dawson, Feigenbaum, Kim, Landrock, Langford, Maurer, McCurley, Preneel, Wolfe, and Wright as well as Micky Swick who represented the IACR Secretariat. Proxies were held for Knudsen and Posch by Preneel and for Biham by McCurley. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley asked the members of the Board to introduce themselves for the benefit of new members. The agenda for the meeting was then briefly discussed and approved. ********************************************************************** ** Minutes of the 6 May 2001 meeting were approved with a spelling correction. Motion by Preneel seconded by Landrock carried 16 to 0. ********************************************************************** ** ______________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2001 General Chair Balenson began by reporting on the status of the conference. He said that all was well, that proceedings and t-shirts had arrived in good order, and that little had changed from previous years. Balenson said that registration costs had increased $25 over the previous year (an increase of less than 5%) and had been figured based on a break-even point of 350 attendees. He said that there were 486 pre-registrants and a total of over 500 registrants expected. He also said that 11 student author stipends had been granted totaling approximately $10,000 and that 13 student non-author stipends had been granted totaling approximately $6,000. Balenson said that he expected the conference to return a surplus. Balenson then raised the issue of press credentials. He reminded the Board that he previously circulated e-mail describing Declan McCullagh's request to be issued complementary press credentials to Crypto. He said that McCullagh never pressed the issue and no resolution had been reached. Balenson also said that three Chinese delegates had been unable to get visas to attend. McCurley noted that it is IACR policy that its conferences be open to all members regardless of nationality. Feigenbaum noted that letters to the U.S. government were sometimes helpful in such cases, and McCurley added that this should be routine and that we can write to the U.S. State Department. The discussion then returned to the issue of press credentials. Benaloh asserted that there should be a consistent policy in this regard, and McCurley agreed that consistency is important. Feigenbaum added that the IACR has no need to curry favor with the press. Maurer asked why members of the press could not just show up and speak with delegates. Clark noted that the IACR rarely issues press statements or courts the press and said that he saw no reason to extend free press credentials. Feigenbaum agreed with this point, and Balenson said that this was consistent with his actions. Wright asked if a member of a student press might be granted a stipend, and Balenson said that he could consider it. Preneel noted that Eurocrypt organizers might invite the local press, and McCurley suggested a system of limited access. Maurer suggested that this issue be left to the discretion of General Chairs, and McCurley said that this seemed to be the consensus. Balenson then noted that the Secretariat's procedure of batching work caused some delays in registration confirmation and charges that, in turn, caused grief to some registrants. Desmedt arrived at this point. Wright said that she was hoping to enable electronic registration for Crypto 2002. Landrock said that he had been personally concerned about his own registration. Beaver suggested that this problem would be resolved as electronic registration becomes available. McCurley asked that the latency be bounded, and Dawson asked how long it had been. Balenson responded that no confirmations were sent before late June, and that latency thereafter was sometimes more than a week. Balenson then thanked the Board and offered specific thanks to previous General Chairs Beaver and Matt Franklin, to Treasurer Langford, and to Sally Vito and the UCSB staff. ______________________________________________________________________ Membership Secretary Beaver then reported on related issues. He began by noting that some recent technical glitches left him unable to report a total count of current membership. Beaver then said that he was looking to enable on-line registration for both consistency and convenience. He also reported that the lack of representatives from the Secretariat at "remote" conferences had caused some difficulties and that he was consulting with Micky Swick regarding the possibility of hiring a professional consultant. Swick added that the UCSB was unable to provide people to be on-site away from Santa Barbara and that she felt that an on-site presence was an important function of the Secretariat. McCurley asked Swick if she had suggestions and Swick suggested the hiring of a professional meeting organizer. Benaloh asked whether this would be instead of or in addition to the UCSB, and Swick responded that it might be as a replacement to the UCSB but that this was flexible. McCurley said that the IACR was very happy with the services provided by the UCSB, but Swick responded that she felt that the services that the UCSB could provide no longer met the needs of the IACR. Clark offered to convene a committee meeting to discuss these issues. McCurley noted that on-line registration posed a concern to some members since members could access their data when registering. Beaver responded that the IACR database was always encrypted prior to e-mailing and suggested that people be allowed to eliminate their names from the database. Swick left the meeting at this point. Cachin also left and gave his proxy to Landrock. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then moved to the issue of selecting an IACR Distinguished Lecturer for Crypto 2002. Berson noted receiving e-mail from Diffie apologizing for his absence. ********************************************************************** ** The Board then voted to ask David Chaum to give the 2002 IACR Distinguished Lecture. [Chaum subsequently accepted.] ********************************************************************** ** ______________________________________________________________________ Journal Editor Feigenbaum then reported on the state of the Journal. She reported that the Journal was in good shape. She said that authors, referees, and editors were sometimes slow. She indicated her view that the ideal backlog was approximately 3 issues and that there were approximately 2.5 issues currently backlogged with several additional good papers in the pipeline. Feigenbaum said that progress had been made on electronic publishing and that Springer-Verlag had agreed to give all IACR members on-line access to their "LINK" service (although it currently contained only volumes 9 through 14 of the Journal). Feigenbaum then said that 2002 would be the last of her 6 years as Journal Editor and that she would like to serve as Co-Editor with a new Editor during 2002 (much as she did with the previous Journal Editor, Gilles Brassard). Finally, she said that the Scientific Citation Index had noted an increase in citation of cryptography papers and had asked include this as a feature. Beaver observed that some papers in the pipeline for publication are available in electronic form prior to publication. McCurley responded that the concern about electronic publishing was archival and asked if we should archive electronic copies of the Journal for our own use. McCurley also asked what else should be archived. The Editor Search Committee then reported on its findings. ********************************************************************** ** The Board then voted to ask Ueli Maurer to serve a three-year term as Editor of the Journal of Cryptology from 2002 through 2004. [Maurer subsequently accepted.] ********************************************************************** ** Maurer then said that his goal was to make the Journal of Cryptology the best journal in the field and to seek the best papers in the field for publication in the Journal. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on the status of 2001 IACR elections. He noted that this was an important election as 7 positions were open. Balenson then withdrew from the Election Committee in order to allow himself to stand for election. Berson agreed to join the committee in his place. McCurley then withdrew from the Election Committee in order to allow himself to stand for election. Wright agreed to join the committee in his place. Benaloh then noted that there might be some inconsistencies in the by-laws regarding length of terms and filling of uncompleted terms, and it was agreed that the by-laws should be studied. ______________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed for lunch at 11:43. The Board reconvened at 12:07. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley noted the existence of an IEEE conference on Foundations of Software Engineering which carries the same initials (FSE) as the workshop newly sponsored by the IACR. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on planning for Eurocrypt 2003. He recalled that there had been concerns about the budget and venue at the proposed site in Warsaw, Poland. He said that the proposal had been revised and that a new and less expensive venue had been found in Warsaw with more space and many nearby hotels. ********************************************************************** ** The Board then voted to accept the Warsaw proposal for Eurocrypt 2003. Motion by Clark, seconded by Cachin, was approved 19-0. ********************************************************************** ** ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then moved to planning for Crypto 2003 which would be presumed to be held at the usual Santa Barbara venue. ********************************************************************** ** The Board then voted to ask Greg Rose to serve as General Chair of Crypto 2003. [Rose subsequently accepted.] ********************************************************************** ** ********************************************************************** ** The Board then voted to ask Dan Boneh to serve as Program Chair of Crypto 2003. [Boneh subsequently accepted.] ********************************************************************** ** ______________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt Steering Committee Chair Dawson then reported on the activities of the Committee. Dawson asked to clarify his understanding that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee should propose a list of potential Program Chairs for each Asiacrypt. McCurley responded that he would like the Asiacrypt Steering Committee to propose possible Program Chairs for ALL IACR conferences. Dawson asked whether the Asiacrypt Program Chair should be Asian and expressed the view that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee should not propose a Program Chair. Feigenbaum suggested that the Board accept any Program Chair proposed by the Asiacrypt Steering Committee unless it felt that the choice was unreasonable. Dawson proposed that the Asiacrypt Steering Committee suggest three names (without any ranking) for the position of Program Chair. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of copyright of IACR Proceedings. He noted that in negotiations with Springer-Verlag, copyright will continue to be kept by the IACR. He then asked for the authority to negotiate a proceedings contract similar to the contract for the Journal of Cryptology. Cachin asked that the (inaccurate) "Copyright Springer-Verlag" notice be removed in Proceedings. McCurley then said that he would ask for "LINK" access and asked the Board how this should relate to any possible CD-ROMs of IACR conference proceedings. Desmedt asked about the cost of such a CD-ROM, and Preneel expressed the view that cumulative CD-ROMs would be more valuable than CD-ROMs for individual conferences. ______________________________________________________________________ Desmedt and Kim then requested that the PKC conference receive IACR sponsorship. They said that the Public-Key Cryptography conference had been in existence since 1998 and that a fixed Steering Committee screens the submitted papers. Desmedt noted that the first four PKC conferences had been held in Asia but that there were many non-Asian authors. Desmedt also requested that IACR membership for PKC attendees be optional. McCurley then noted that the IACR Board could refuse to accept individual conference proposals and asked if PKC would utilize IACR membership services. He also asked about the process for Steering Committee membership. Desmedt responded that all PKC Steering Committee members were asked to serve by Professor Imai and noted that the IACR Board was originally unelected. McCurley then described his plans to negotiate to give Springer-Verlag exclusive short-term publication rights and non-exclusive long-term publication rights. Desmedt responded that this arrangement would be fine for PKC. Wright expressed discomfort with the proposal that PKC participants "may become IACR members". Desmedt responded that the conference is not yet stable, and Feigenbaum replied that stability is important prior to IACR sponsorship. Desmedt indicated that PKC was scientifically stable, and Beaver suggested that IACR members should not subsidize risk for non-members. Desmedt asked when conference attended should become IACR members, and Berson responded that this should take place upon sponsorship. McCurley suggested that amendments to the proposal were necessary, and Berson expressed the view that the sponsorship agreement should match the FSE agreement. Desmedt agreed to revise the proposal. Benaloh asked if there was any rush to sponsor PKC prior to 2004? Desmedt responded that he wanted PKC to be sponsored in 2003 with the IACR taking financial responsibility as of 2004. McCurley suggested waiting until the next IACR Board meeting. Desmedt said that he wanted to rush. Benaloh asked if PKC was sufficiently mature for IACR sponsorship, and both McCurley and Cachin expressed their views that it was ready. ______________________________________________________________________ Desmedt then raised the issue of paper acceptance policies for Crypto and Eurocrypt. He said that he had received complaints about conflicts of interest regarding papers submitted by students of Program Committee members and suggested that the Program Chair Guidelines include a new section on conflicts of interest. Maurer agreed to add such a section. ______________________________________________________________________ Cachin then announced that he had added a listing of sponsored workshops on the IACR web site. ______________________________________________________________________ Maurer then returned to the topic of Program Chair Guidelines. He said that the Guidelines had just undergone a substantial revision but that they could not cover everything. Feigenbaum suggested that the Guidelines not attempt to define conflicts of interest. McCurley then thanked Maurer for his work on the Guidelines. ______________________________________________________________________ Preneel then described the electronic submission software and the separate review software that had been written for Eurocrypt 2000 and expressed his willingness to have the IACR use it. McCurley asked about licensing, and Preneel asked if this could be kept informal. McCurley then noted that the IACR did not own a computer to host applications and asked if this would be useful to manage such items as conference organization, paper submissions, reviews, the IACR Newsletter, the IACR web site, the ePrint archive, and membership data. Preneel responded that he thought that a dedicated IACR machine might be useful but wasn't urgent. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then opened a discussion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). He described the act, passed in 1998, the recent arrest case of Dmitry Sklyarov, and suggestions from some IACR members that the Crypto conference be moved out of the United States. He then told of having written a letter as IACR president protesting the situation. McCurley added that he had been asked if the IACR would support authors who submit papers on cryptanalysis. Berson said that the DMCA prohibits publication of methods to circumvent copy protection and indicated that moving the conference out of the U.S. would not help. Feigenbaum said that it was not clear if publication constitutes "distribution of tools for circumvention of copy protection". Wright indicated that this was a current issue that should be addressed. Clark expressed the view that the DMCA will "shake out" and noted that the IACR sponsors many non-U.S. conferences. He said that we should be prudent and establish a policy. McCurley noted that the IACR is incorporated in the U.S. and is therefore liable regardless of the conference venue. Feigenbaum asked who we are trying to protect ... authors, publishers, IACR members, directors, etc. She then said that the issues should be clarified. Desmedt suggested that the Guidelines for Program Chairs warn of these issues. McCurley indicated that the same should be true for the ePrint archive. Maurer noted that this was a national issue and asked if the IACR should comment. He added a view that the IACR must be willing to take risks. Berson said that this has a chilling effect on research. Preneel suggested informing members of our actions. Beaver indicated that the IACR's non-profit status may prohibit its taking political positions. He noted the similarities with key escrow and encryption restrictions. Feigenbaum suggested that the IACR not lobby but state its position. Beaver expressed a concern that warnings could be counterproductive. Desmedt indicated that escrow was distinct from research. Berson said that the IACR shouldn't lobby but that the DMCA does have a chilling effect. He said that some IACR members will recruit the IACR for their lobbying efforts and that we need to maintain control of the situation. Wright said that as researchers we work on both sides of cryptology -- both creating and attacking these technologies. Feigenbaum suggested creating a committee to study this. McCurley appointed a committee consisting of himself, Beaver, Clark, Desmedt, Feigenbaum, and Wright. Beaver said that our position will be that the IACR will stand its ground. Benaloh asked if this position should be expressed in public, and Beaver suggested that it should not. Cachin suggested that a statement could be placed in the Newsletter. McCurley said that he would announce at the Business Meeting that the Board is studying the issue. ______________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then gave a report on IACR finances. She said that the finances of the IACR were good and that all recent conferences had returned surpluses. She recommended that IACR dues remain at $80, and that the IACR contract with Springer-Verlag had expired and needed to be renewed. Desmedt asked about the IACR's acceptance of euros, but no resolution was reached. ______________________________________________________________________ The Board then recessed at 14:23. The Board reconvened at 14:32. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on details of Asiacrypt 2000. He said that he had been sent information from Asiacrypt 2000 General Chair Matsumoto that there had been 251 participants, with 40 students, and that there had been significant participation from the United States and Europe. He added that the conference returned no surplus despite small contributions from Initiatives in Research for Information Security and the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation. ______________________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the status of the Newsletter. He said that the most recent issue had been sent to 869 members and that it did not reach 36. McCurley asked if Cachin was happy with the web hosting services of Southwest Cyber Port, and Cachin responded that they seemed all right. McCurley asked what screening was done on ePrint submissions, and Cachin responded that submissions were only screened for scope. McCurley then thanked Cachin for his work on the IACR web site. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then delivered a report on Eurocrypt 2001 that was sent by Eurocrypt 2001 General Chair Posch. McCurley said that Posch had done a wonderful job to which there was general agreement. ______________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair Dawson then reported on the status of the conference. He said that 33 of 153 submitted papers were accepted and that Arjen Lenstra and Brendon McKai were scheduled to give invited talks. He added that the break-even point for the conference would be in the range of 160 to 180 attendees. Clark suggested that the break-even point should be set high and that it was OK to risk some possible losses. Dawson responded that costs were low and that Springer-Verlag was subsidizing the cost of the proceedings. Balenson added that we would receive 50 copies of the proceedings from Springer-Verlag plus an additional 20 copies in exchange for giving a Springer-Verlag representative a name badge and the right to attend social events. Dawson said that the rump session was scheduled for Monday evening to leave Tuesday afternoon and evening entirely free. ______________________________________________________________________ Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the status of the conference. She said that things would be kept similar to how they had been in the past and that she would work to enable on-line payments. McCurley suggested that Southwest Cyber Port might be able to accept payments and then inquired about the dates that were given as 18-22 August 2002. McCurley said that future conference dates needed to be submitted to the UCSB, and Balenson volunteered to write notes for Wright on his experiences as Crypto 2001 General Chair. ______________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe then reported on the status of the conference. He said that things were on track and that a contract had been signed to produce a gift for attendees. ______________________________________________________________________ At this point Balenson noted that measures had been taken in the event of any possible power outages during Crypto 2001. ______________________________________________________________________ At this point, Desmedt raised the issue of writing style in conference papers. Desmedt expressed the view that presentations had become mostly background material and suggested distributing a questionnaire. Wright suggested that a question during the Business Meeting could be asked of the membership in lieu of a questionnaire, and Desmedt agreed. McCurley agreed to ask about this during the Business Meeting. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley noted that he had many copies of old IACR conference proceedings and that he wanted to distribute them. He said that he would offer them to Springer-Verlag and that if they were not accepted he would sell them "cheap" to members. ______________________________________________________________________ McCurley then raised the issue of archiving which he said needed attention. Feigenbaum expressed the view that the IACR should have electronic copies and paper copies of old Journals and Proceedings. Berson suggested that wide distribution served as effective archiving. Feigenbaum said that she had sent all electronic copies of Journal papers to Springer-Verlag. Desmedt suggested the need for a clear list of what should and should not be archived, and McCurley offered to assemble such a list. Wright expressed the view that maintaining current formats was important. Clark suggested that volunteers be sought to do electronic archiving and that there was a need to maintain all legal documents such as copyright assignment forms. McCurley suggested that the Program Chair Guidelines should include instructions for archiving papers. ______________________________________________________________________ At this point the Board discussed ideas for making the Business Meeting more attractive to the membership. Cachin suggested that the IACR Distinguished Lecturer be announced at the Business Meeting. McCurley asked Balenson to announce that forthcoming announcements would be made at the Business Meeting, and Balenson agreed to do so. Clark suggested that the name of the Business Meeting be changed to make it more appealing, and the term "Membership Meeting" was suggested. ______________________________________________________________________ Feigenbaum then raised the topic of establishing an honorary designation of "IACR Fellow". She defined a "fellow" as someone who has done both a lot of research in the area and a lot of service. Desmedt expressed the view that this community was not sufficiently coherent. Feigenbaum expressed her willingness to work to create a process. Berson noted that past discussions of this topic had been very polarized. He said that he supported it but that the general argument against it was of a democratic, egalitarian, non-elitist view. McCurley offered that some may simply not want to spend the time and effort. Desmedt suggested the alternative of "senior" memberships. Cachin expressed the view that the IACR is not large enough to support this. Feigenbaum said that she might submit a proposal to this effect. ______________________________________________________________________ Beaver then said that he believed that the IACR was developing a need for some IT support. Clark noted the existence of a committee to study membership, electronic registration, and related issues. McCurley and Wright then agreed to be added to a committee chaired by Clark to study the role of the Secretariat, and the purview of this committee was expanded to include IT issues. ______________________________________________________________________ At this point, Clark noted that this was McCurley's last Board Meeting as IACR President and gave his thanks to McCurley for his extraordinary service to the IACR. General agreement and thanks were given by the Board. ______________________________________________________________________ Items for the Business Meeting agenda were listed as the Journal report, a financial report, a report from the Membership Secretary, an election report, announcements of future conferences, a report on the Board discussions regarding the DMCA, and a straw poll regarding the content of conference talks. Balenson agreed to announce the Business Meeting as a "Membership Meeting". Additional topics for the Business Meeting were to include the possibility of announcing the next IACR Distinguished Lecturer and upcoming conference chairs, an announcement of the IACR's sponsorship of the FSE workshop, an announcement of the venue for Eurocrypt 2003, and a report on the Newsletter and ePrint archive. ______________________________________________________________________ The meeting adjourned at 15:43. ______________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2001 Membership Meeting Crypto 2001 Santa Barbara 22 Aug 2001 IACR President McCurley began the meeting at 16:35. McCurley began by expressing his desire for a brief meeting to allow sufficient time to attend the beach barbeque. He then gave a brief history of the IACR, founded in 1983, and noted that Crypto attendees were members of the IACR unless they had taken explicit action to not become members. McCurley described the mission of the IACR as advancing the theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and he described its primary products as the Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt conferences, the Journal of Cryptology, and the Newsletter. McCurley then introduced the members of the IACR Board of Directors and described the role of the Board as including the setting of policies and guidelines for the organization and its activities and selection of conference venues along with conference and program chairs. He then described some recent issues that have occupied the Board's attention including IACR sponsorship of workshops, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and IACR copyright ownership. McCurley then described the IACR Distinguished Lecturer as an honor recognizing long-standing contributions by a member of the field and announced that David Chaum would be giving the IACR Distinguished Lecture at Crypto in August of 2002. McCurley then described the FSE workshop which had recently gained the status of an IACR sponsored workshop. He said that this action had been approved by the IACR Board and that the IACR would accept responsibility starting in 2002. He added that the FSE Steering Committee would run the FSE workshop and that copyrights of papers presented at the workshop would be given to the IACR. ____________________________________________________________________ Election Committee Chair Berson then reported on the forthcoming IACR elections. He noted that the terms of all four of the IACR Officers and three of the IACR Directors would be expiring at the end of the year and that elections would be held to fill all of these positions for three-year terms. He identified Biham, Diffie, and Landrock as the Directors whose terms were expiring and also identified the Election Committee consisting of himself, Yvo Desmedt, and Rebecca Wright. Berson described how any IACR member can nominate any other member and referred interested persons to http://www.iacr.org for nomination materials which needed to be returned by September 16. He then described the process whereby ballots are sent to members with instructions to place the ballot into an inner envelope which is in turn placed into an outer envelop for mailing to the Returning Officer. Berson then identified Desmedt as the Returning Officer who it was felt, by virtue of his status as a resident of the state of Florida, was in a unique position to ensure fair counting of the ballots. McCurley then noted that several Board positions would be open including the position of IACR President. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then noted that the IACR is a volunteer organization and presented plaques in gratitude to Crypto 2001 General Chair David Balenson and Crypto 2001 Program Chair Joe Kilian for their efforts in making the conference a success. Applause was given by the audience. ____________________________________________________________________ Program Chair Kilian then presented statistics on the conference program. He said that there had been 156 submissions of which 34 had been accepted (although one was subsequently withdrawn). This meant that 78% of the submissions were rejected. The breakdown of submissions by domain was given as follows. .com 37 .edu 32 .fr 15 .jp 10 .kr 9 .tw 7 .au 6 .il 5 .de 5 .net 4 .ch 4 .uk 4 .in 3 .ca 3 .se 3 .org 2 .dk 2 .yu 1 .sg 1 .mx 1 .ie 1 .gov 1 .es 1 .be 1 Kilian gave the following breakdown of reasons for acceptances by the Program Committee. "10: Snowed by complicated mathematics." "20: Masterful citation of PC members." "4: No spelling mistakes." He then gave the following breakdown of reasons for rejections by the Program Committee. "15: Didn't understand brilliance of paper." "5: Did understand, was jealous." "102: Never did get a chance to read 65-156." Kilian then noted that 10 out of 37 ".com" submissions were accepted for a rate of 27% while only 8 out of 32 ".edu" submissions were accepted for a rate of 25%. Next, Kilian observed that 40% of papers citing committee members Ran Canetti and Stuart Haber were accepted while all papers mentioning any of six other committee members were rejected. Kilian added that citation of other notable names had the following results on acceptance rates. Wigderson 24.5% Rabin 14.6% Micali 10.5% Goldreich 9.5% Goldwasser 8.9% Shamir 2.4% Kilian then noted that there was a +.16 correlation between size of submitted ".ps" files and acceptance rates and that only 10% of papers prepared using Microsoft Word were accepted. Finally he noted variations in acceptance rates for papers using each of the following terms. Rigorous +35 Paradigm +15.8 Practical +0.29 Correct +0.91 Fast -2 Whit Diffie asked if stylistic recognition software was run, and Kilian responded that it had revealed that most of the papers were written by Sir Francis Bacon. ____________________________________________________________________ General Chair Balenson then reported on details for Crypto 2001 which he dubbed as "the 1st Crypto in the true 21st Century". He said that the unofficial totals included 497 registrants of which 105 (21%) were students, 85 (17%) had attended Eurocrypt, and 394 (79%) had registered early. Balenson then gave a breakdown of the 32 countries from which participants had registered as follows. Argentina 3 Australia 7 Belgium 6 Brazil 2 Canada 23 China 3 Czech Repub. 4 Denmark 4 Finland 5 France 39 Germany 26 Hungary 1 Ireland 2 Israel 14 Italy 4 Japan 31 Korea 43 New Zealand 2 Norway 1 Romania 4 Russia 1 Saudi Arabia 1 Singapore 3 S. Africa 2 Spain 1 Sweden 3 Switzerland 14 Taiwan 4 The Nether. 7 Turkey 1 U.K. 16 U.S.A. 220 Balenson then noted how attendance compared to recent years with the following recent attendance figures. 1997 506 1998 529 1999 509 2000 502 2001 497 Balenson then quoted the following figures for quantities of food consumed. 210 lbs. of shrimp 250 doz. chocolate strawberries 249 doz. strawberries 200 rolls / 1600 pieces of sushi 198 six packs of beer 264 bottles of wine ??? bottles of tequila (TBD) Finally, Balenson suggested the following possible explanations for a "bug" that had been discovered on the conference T-Shirts. "It was a test! (Scott Fluhrer wins the prize)" "It represents a noisy channel" "The channel was under attack" "It's a quantum bit" "I copied it from the 1st edition of a well known book" Balenson concluded by thanking the IACR Board and especially Susan Langford; former General Chairs Matt Franklin and Don Beaver; his employer NAI Labs, the security research division of PGP Security, a Network Associates Business; Joe Kilian, the Program Chair, and the Program Committee; and UCSB conference services (Sally Vito), catering services (Eriko Macdonald), and Campbell Hall technicians (J.O. and team). ____________________________________________________________________ Treasurer Langford then gave a report on the finances of the IACR. She presented a bar graph displaying the disbursements of funds collected from the 2000 Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt conferences. The total funds collected were seen to be approximately $200,000 for Eurocrypt, slightly more for Crypto, and approximately $100,000 for Asiacrypt. In all cases, the overwhelming majority of funds collected were spent on the conferences themselves with smaller amounts being spent on IACR dues, used to fund the IACR Secretariat, and returned to the IACR as surplus. Langford noted that the IACR did not seek to make "profits" from conferences. Langford then presented a graph displaying the cash reserves of the IACR which were estimated at $350,000 as of December 31, 2000. The graph showed approximately $200,000 held in CDs, roughly half that amount in a checking account, and a similar amount in a market rate account. Langford then presented a pie chart displaying how the IACR dues money is spent. These funds were shown to be spent 75% on the Journal of Cryptology, 12% on IACR Secretariat services, and 13% on miscellaneous expenses. The floor was then opened for questions from the membership, and it was asked whether it was possible that credit cards not be billed for registration charges until the beginning of the conference. Langford noted that many conference expenses had to be paid in advance of the start of the conference and that as of Asiacrypt 2001, credit cards would be charged at time of receipt or shortly thereafter. It was asked if two separate charges could be made -- one at time of receipt and another at the beginning of the conference, and Langford responded that the IACR did not have the resources to do this. It was suggested that as many as 25% of IACR attempts to bill credit cards were refused. It was also asked whether the IACR was considering accepting the euro at future conferences, and Langford responded that this was being looked into. ____________________________________________________________________ Journal of Cryptology Editor-in-Chief Feigenbaum then reported on the status of the Journal. She began by noting the Journal's web page at http://www.iacr.org/jofc/ and then announced that Don Beaver had joined the Editorial Board. Feigenbaum then described the journal's backlog -- those papers that had been accepted but not yet appeared -- as being three issues. Feigenbaum then announced that Ueli Maurer had been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief and that the two would jointly hold the position until 2003 at which point Maurer would hold it alone. Feigenbaum then solicited papers and referees for the journal. She also announced that the SCI indexing service had informed her that the Journal of Cryptology citation rate has been increasing and that they wanted to feature this information. Feigenbaum asked that any new submissions to the Journal be sent to Maurer as of January 2002. Feigenbaum then noted that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may affect the Journal as well as other aspects of the IACR and solicited relevant information. An audience member asked if there was a problem with distribution of Volume 14 Issue Number 3, and Feigenbaum responded that she knew of no problem and suggested contacting the Membership Secretary to verify addressing. McCurley then thanked Feigenbaum for her efforts and general applause was given. ____________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the status of the Newsletter. He described the Newsletter as being distributed electronically thrice annually and as also being available at http://www.iacr.org. He indicated that it included book reviews, conference announcements, and job advertisements. He then announced the deadline for the next Newsletter as September 30, 2001 and asked that items be submitted to newsletter@iacr.org. An audience member asked if the Newsletter was available off-line, and Cachin asked that such requests be sent to him directly. Cachin then reported on the ePrint Archive at http://eprint.iacr.org/ which he maintains along with Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee. He said that refereeing is minimal and items are approved by the editor. He added that submissions, updates, annotations, and deletions can all be accomplished through an automated interface. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on upcoming IACR conferences and sponsored workshops. Asiacrypt 2001 was scheduled for 9-13 December 2001 on the Gold Coast of Australia. Ed Dawson was the General Chair and Colin Boyd was the Program Chair. Dawson provided details on the conference. He described the Gold Coast as just south of Brisbane with many attractions and local airports. He gave the venue as Somerset College which he described as providing athletic facilities and being approximately fifteen minutes from the Gold Coast. Dawson then described the accommodations on the Gold Coast and the planned Tuesday afternoon tour of a local rain forest. He added that the hotels were a five-minute walk from the beach. Dawson listed the price of the Concorde Hotel at AUS$114 (or approximately US$60) and the price of the Grand Mercure Hotel at AUS$130. He said that registration forms should be sent within four weeks and reminded attendees that December is the summer in Australia with expected temperatures of 28-34 degrees Centigrade and that hats should be worn. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then continued his report on upcoming IACR conferences and sponsored workshops. Eurocrypt 2002 is scheduled for April 28 - May 2, 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Berry Schoenmakers is the General Chair and Lars Knudsen is the Program Chair. Crypto 2002 is scheduled for 18-22 August 2002 in Santa Barbara, California. Rebecca Wright is the General Chair and Moti Yung is the Program Chair. Asiacrypt 2002 is scheduled for 1-5 December 2002 in Queenstown, New Zealand. Henry B. Wolfe is the General Chair and Yulian Zheng is the Program Chair. The next FSE Workshop was scheduled for 4-6 February 2002 in Leuven, Belgium. Matt Landrock was the General Chair and Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen were Program Co-chairs. Eurocrypt 2003 will be in Warsaw, Poland with dates in early May to be confirmed. Jerzy Gawinecki is the General Chair and Eli Biham is the Program Chair. Crypto 2003 will be in Santa Barbara, California with dates in August to be confirmed. Greg Rose is the General Chair and Dan Boneh is the Program Chair. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then reported on IACR Membership Services. He noted that Don Beaver is the Membership Secretary and that services are provided by the University of California. He suggested contacting membership services via email at iacrmem@iacr.org to update personal data such as addresses, URLs, and email addresses. He then described the Secretariat's role in managing registration for IACR conferences and mailing of the Journal of Cryptology. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then took a straw poll of the audience on the amount of introductory material in technical presentations. Approximately eight audience members responded that the amount was too much, a very large portion of members responded that the amount was about right, and approximately ten members responded that the amount was too little. ____________________________________________________________________ McCurley then opened the floor for other business at 17:32. Whit Diffie announced his opinion that there was too much deadwood on the Board of Directors and that he would therefore not seek re-election. Applause was given in thanks to his service to the IACR. Rich Schroeppel inquired about electronic access to IACR materials. Don Beaver responded that the Springer-Verlag "LINK" service was slowly adding the Journal of Cryptology and IACR proceedings and noted that one must accept cookies to access this service. Schroeppel suggested that the IACR should hold the copyrights, and McCurley responded that it already does. Schroeppel asked about seeking a service to host electronic forms of IACR materials, and McCurley responded that the IACR has been working with Springer-Verlag on electronic publishing and that the situation is being monitored. Joan Feigenbaum offered her thanks to Kevin McCurley for his service to the IACR, and applause was given by the audience. Stuart Haber then asked the audience for guidance on the rump session. Many expressed a desire for the enforcement of time limits while a smaller number of members supported a limit on the number of slides. Paul Kocher suggested that one-page "negative" rump talks be included in the conference proceedings, and McCurley responded that the structure is up to the discretion of the Program Chair and reminded members that the ePrint Archive could be used. Haber then invited rump speakers to send links to their work for publication on a web site. Joan Feigenbaum then asked if the Journal of Cryptology should include short notes and suggested that those who were interested should contact Ueli Maurer. David Balenson asked if short notes would also take nine months to be published, and Feigenbaum responded that it probably would not. John Kelly suggested rump session speaker guidelines, and McCurley expressed his agreement. Whit Diffie claimed success with his "synchronous" rump session approach. A member then suggested that more questions during and after technical talks would be nice. Tom Berson responded that this was affected by both the size of the room and other factors and suggested that Session Chairs should pause longer for questions and have their own questions prepared in advance. A member offered a demonstration of how the DMCA can be used to make proceedings difficult to copy by displaying an inverted copy which he described as a copy protection mechanism. He then offered to perform an unlocking service for members. McCurley asked about quality control for the proceedings, and Andy Clark noted that six copies of the proceedings had been returned. Brian Snow then offered his thanks to Stuart Haber for his efforts who then received general applause. Whit Diffie then offered his opinion that the field has become so diverse that it is difficult to learn and suggested that the availability of more background material would be helpful. Niels Ferguson added his view that many presentations are targeted to a narrow audience. Yvo Desmedt suggested that "clickable" references be included. Jon Graff suggested that proceedings be sent to attendees a week before conferences or, in the alternative, that abstracts be posted in advance. McCurley responded that Springer-Verlag had the abstracts posted the previous week. Greg Rose suggested that talks sometimes followed a pattern of being two-thirds introduction and the other third being too shallow and asked that speakers tell the audience their results. ____________________________________________________________________ The Membership Meeting was then adjourned at 17:52. ____________________________________________________________________ Respectfully submitted Josh Benaloh IACR Secretary ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcements ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Papers Accepted for Presentation at SAC 2002 The list of papers accepted for presentation at SAC 2002 is available on the conference webpage http://www2.engr.mun.ca/~sac2002/ ** PKC 2003, Call for Papers PKC 2003 Miami, Florida, January 6-8, 2003 Call for Papers Submission Deadline: August 9, 2002 Background: For the last few years the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography PKC is the main annual workshop focusing on research on all aspects of public key cryptography. The first workshop was organized in 1998 in Japan. Other PKCs have taken place in Australia, France, Japan and South Korea. PKC 2003 will be for the first time an IACR workshop. PKC has attracted papers from famous international authors in the area. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Topics of interest: The topics of interest are all aspects of public-key cryptography including: o Certification and Time-stamping o Integer Factorization o Computational Complexity Aspects o International Standards o Cryptanalysis o Lattice Reduction o Discrete Logarithm o Provable Security o Electronic Cash/Payment o Public Key Infrastructure o Elliptic Curve Cryptography o Secure Electronic Commerce o Encryption Schemes o Signature Schemes o Fast Implementations Instructions for Authors: The paper must start with a title, an abstract and keywords, but should be anonymous. It should be followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader specifying the subject addressed, its background, the main achievements, and their significance to public key cryptology. Technical details directed to the specialist should then follow. Self citations to unpublished work should be avoided to maintain the anonymity. A limit of 11 singlespaced pages of 11pt type (not counting the bibliography and clearly marked appendices) is placed on all submissions. The total paper must not exceed 18 pages. Since referees are not required to read the appendices, the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Submission instructions: Abstracts that have been or will be submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops that have proceedings are not eligible for submission. One of the authors is expected to present the paper. The submission receipt deadline is August 9, 2002 23:59 Hawaii time (i.e. GMT: August 10 at 9:59). To submit a paper, e-mail to pkc-submit@cs.fsu.edu an e-mail with the following two attachments: o in ASCII the title, authors names, address of corresponding author, and the abstract, o in PS (or PDF) file the full anonymous paper (i.e. title, abstract, keywords, etc.). The paper should be submitted as a Postscript or PDF (e.g. using PDFLATEX) paper also readable on non-Windows platforms. For Unix users of LaTeX using ps2pdf one should use: % dvips -Ppdf -G0 or dvips -Pcmz -G0 % ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true Submission Deadline: August 9, 2002 Important dates: Authors Informed: September 27, 2002 Accepted papers need to arrive: October 25, 2002. Program Committee: To be announced very soon. Sponsors: For information about sponsoring, contact general chair M. Burmester at burmester@cs.fsu.edu Program Chair: Dr. Yvo G. Desmedt General Chair: Dr. Mike Burmester desmedt@cs.fsu.edu burmester@cs.fsu.edu 206 Love Building 206 Love Building Florida State University Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530 Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530 More information is available on the conference webpage at http://www.sait.fsu.edu/pkc2003/ ** Internet Law & Policy Forum: Security v. Privacy The Internet Law & Policy Forum is holding its annual conference on the topic of Security v. Privacy, September 18-19, 2002 in Seattle, Washington. The events of September 11th have raised the stakes on these two critical issues. Many governments have passed new legislation in efforts to increase security and stop terrorism. Many privacy advocates have criticized some of these new laws for their negative effect on privacy. This conference will explore the synergies and conflicts, both real and imagined, between these two important issues and the laws written to promote them. The conference will have a privacy track and a security track, where speakers will explore key issues and concerns in the respective areas. Some of the topics covered in these panels include: Privacy Global Survey: Legislative Regimes and Cross-Cultural Dimensions; Practicalities of Compliance with Law Enforcement Requests; Identifying and Selecting Appropriate Authentication Options. Plenary sessions will cover topics from both perspectives. For more information about this conference, including a more detailed agenda and a list of confirmed speakers, please visit http://www.ilpf.org/conference2002/. To receive a US$200 discount, register before July 31st and refer to Priority Code # NG18B2 on the registration form. ** Looking for Argentinian members My name is Federico Schroder and I`m currently studying engineering at the UTN from Buenos Aires Argentina. Lately I`ve become interested in the field of cryptography so I would like to meet the IACR members of my country. If someone wants to meet me please send a message to hawat1@excite.com. Federico asked me to post this message because he would like to contact some IACR members in Argentina, but he ran into IACR's policy of not giving out the addresses of its members. -- Christian Cachin ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ (The list contains reports posted since the last newsletter issue appeared.) 2002/080 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Applications of Multilinear Forms to Cryptography Dan Boneh and Alice Silverberg 2002/079 ( PS PS.GZ ) On the efficiency of the Clock Control Guessing Attack Erik Zenner 2002/078 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Provably Fixing the SSH Binary Packet Protocol Mihir Bellare and Tadayoshi Kohno and Chanathip Namprempre 2002/077 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Key-Insulated Public-Key Cryptosystems Yevgeniy Dodis and Jonathan Katz and Shouhuai Xu and Moti Yung 2002/076 ( PDF ) Attack on Private Signature Keys of the OpenPGP Format, PGP(TM) Programs and Other Applications Compatible with OpenPGP Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa 2002/075 ( PDF ) Fault based cryptanalysis of the Advanced Encryption Standard J.\ Bl\"oemer and J.-P.\ Seifert 2002/074 ( PS PS.GZ ) How to repair ESIGN Louis Granboulan 2002/073 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Fault attacks on RSA with CRT: Concrete Results and Practical Countermeasures C.\ Aum\"uller and P.\ Bier and P. Hofreiter and W. Fischer and J.-P. Seifert 2002/072 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Authenticated Identity-Based Encryption Ben Lynn 2002/071 ( PDF ) Further Results and Considerations on Side Channel Attacks on RSA Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa 2002/070 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Weak Keys in MST1 Jens-Matthias Bohli and Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Consuelo Martinez and Rainer Steinwandt 2002/069 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Distributed and Computationally Secure Key Distribution Scheme Vanesa Daza and Javier Herranz and Carles Padr\'o and Germ\'an S\'aez 2002/068 ( PS PS.GZ ) Improved key recovery of level 1 of the Bluetooth Encryption System Scott Fluhrer 2002/067 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) (Not So) Random Shuffles of RC4 Ilya Mironov 2002/066 ( PS PS.GZ ) Black-Box Analysis of the Block-Cipher-Based Hash-Function Constructions from PGV John Black and Phillip Rogaway and Thomas Shrimpton 2002/065 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Channels based on Authenticated Encryption Schemes: A Simple Characterization Chanathip Namprempre 2002/064 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Protecting against Key Exposure: Strongly Key-Insulated Encryption with Optimal Threshold Mihir Bellare and Adriana Palacio 2002/063 ( PS PS.GZ ) On some Attacks on Multi-prime RSA M Jason Hinek and Mo King Low and Edlyn Teske 2002/062 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) ABC - A Block Cipher Dieter Schmidt 2002/061 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Strengthened Encryption in the CBC Mode Vlastimil Klima and Tomas Rosa 2002/060 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Forward-Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme Jonathan Katz 2002/059 ( PS PS.GZ ) Universally Composable Notions of Key Exchange and Secure Channels Ran Canetti and Hugo Krawczyk 2002/058 ( PS PS.GZ ) Construction of UOWHF: Tree Hashing Revisited Palash Sarkar 2002/057 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Simpler Construction of CCA2-Secure Public-Key Encryption Under General Assumptions Yehuda Lindell 2002/056 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Hierarchical ID-Based Cryptography Craig Gentry and Alice Silverberg 2002/055 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Concurrent Zero Knowledge Proofs with Logarithmic Round-Complexity Manoj Prabhakaran and Amit Sahai 2002/054 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Intrusion-Resilient Signatures, or Towards Obsoletion of Certificate Revocation Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin 2002/053 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Extended Validity and Consistency in Byzantine Agreement Matthias Fitzi and Martin Hirt and Thomas Holenstein and J\"urg Wullschleger 2002/052 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Variant of the Cramer-Shoup Cryptosystem for Groups with Unknwon Order Stefan Lucks 2002/051 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Fully Distributed Proxy Signature Schemes Javier Herranz and Germ\'an S\'aez 2002/050 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secret sharing schemes with three or four minimal qualified subsets Jaume Martí-Farré and Carles Padró 2002/049 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Tensor Transform of Boolean Functions and Related Algebraic and Probabilistic Properties Alexander Kholosha 2002/048 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Towards a Uniform Description of Several Group Based Cryptographic Primitives Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Consuelo Martinez and Rainer Steinwandt 2002/047 ( PS PS.GZ ) Universal Composition with Joint State Ran Canetti and Tal Rabin 2002/046 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Security of Joint Signature and Encryption Jee Hea An and Yevgeniy Dodis and Tal Rabin 2002/045 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of S-DES Dr. K. S. Ooi, Brain Chin Vito 2002/044 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers with Overdefined Systems of Equations Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk 2002/043 ( PS PS.GZ ) Strict Polynomial-time in Simulation and Extraction Boaz Barak and Yehuda Lindell 2002/042 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Unified Methodology For Constructing Public-Key Encryption Schemes Secure Against Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Attack Edith Elkind and Amit Sahai 2002/041 ( PS PS.GZ ) New Results on Boomerang and Rectangle Attack Eli Biham and Orr Dunkelman and Nathan Keller 2002/040 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Computation Without a Broadcast Channel Shafi Goldwasser and Yehuda Lindell 2002/039 ( PS PS.GZ ) Partial Key Escrow Monitoring Scheme Jiang Shaoquan and Zhang Yufeng 2002/038 ( -- withdrawn -- ) A Distributed RSA Signature Scheme for General Access Structures Javier Herranz and Carles Padr\'o and Germ\'an S\'aez 2002/037 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An efficient semantically secure elliptic curve cryptosystem based on KMOV scheme David Galindo and Sebasti\`a Mart\'{\i}n and Paz Morillo and Jorge L. Villar 2002/036 ( PS PS.GZ ) Optimal Black-Box Secret Sharing over Arbitrary Abelian Groups Ronald Cramer and Serge Fehr 2002/035 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Authenticated Three Party Key Agreement Protocols from Pairings Sattam S. Al-Riyami and Kenneth G. Paterson 2002/034 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An OAEP Variant With a Tight Security Proof Jakob Jonsson 2002/033 ( PS PS.GZ ) Equivalence between semantic security and indistinguishability against chosen ciphertext attacks Yodai Watanabe and Junji Shikata and Hideki Imai 2002/032 ( PS PS.GZ ) Supersingular Hyperelliptic Curve of Genus 2 over Finite Fields Y. Choie and E. Jeong and E. Lee 2002/031 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Parallelizable Design Principle for Cryptographic Hash Functions Palash Sarkar and Paul J. Schellenberg 2002/030 ( PS PS.GZ ) Adaptive chi-square test and its application to some cryptographic problems. Boris Ryabko ______________________________________________________________________________ New Books ______________________________________________________________________________ This page lists new books about cryptology, and occasionally reviews one. ** Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography Stefan Katzenbeisser Vienna University of Technology, Austria Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography surveys the most important achievements of the last 22 years of research in RSA cryptography. Special emphasis is laid on the description and analysis of proposed attacks against the RSA cryptosystem. The first chapters introduce the necessary background information on number theory, complexity and public key cryptography. Subsequent chapters review factorization algorithms and specific properties that make RSA attractive for cryptographers. Most recent attacks against RSA are discussed in the third part of the book (among them attacks against low-exponent RSA, Hastad's broadcast attack, and Franklin-Reiter attacks). Finally, the last chapter reviews the use of the RSA function in signature schemes. Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography is of interest to graduate level students and researchers who will gain an insight into current research topics in the field and an overview of recent results in a unified way. Recent Advances in RSA Cryptography is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry. 1. Mathematical background: Divisibility and the residue class ring Zn; Polynomials; Euler's totient fun ction and Zn*; Polynomial congruences and systems of linear congruences; Quadratic residues 2. Computational complexity: Turing machines; Deterministic and nondeterministic machines; Decision probl ems and complexity classes; Reductions; completeness and oracle computations; co-NP; Efficient computati on and randomized complexity classes 3. Public key cryptography: Public key cryptography; Permutation polynomials and RSA-type cryptosystems; Efficient implementation of RSA; One-way functions; On the complexity of an attack against RSA 4. Factorization methods: Trial division and Fermat factorization; Monte-carlo factorization; Factor b ase methods; The continued fraction method; Quadratic sieve; Other Factorization Methods 5. Properties of the RSA cryptosystem: Computing the decryption exponent; Partial decryption; Cycling attacks and s uperencryption; Incorrect keys; Partial information on RSA and hard-core predicates 6. Low-exponent RSA: Wiener's attack; Lattice basis reduction; The attack of Boneh and Durfee; Low public exponents; Polynomially related messages; Partial key exposure 7. Protocol and implementation attacks: Simple protocol attacks against RSA; Hastad's broadcast attack; Effective se curity of small RSA messages; Optimal Asymmetric Encryption; Faulty encryption; Timing attacks 8. RSA Signatures: Attacks on RSA signatures with redundancy; Security of hash-and-sign signatu res; Provably secure RSA signatures; Undeniable signatures; Threshold signatures 9. References 10. Index Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7438-X. September 2001, 160 pp. EUR 110.00 / USD 99.50 / GBP 70.00. Find detailed information at: http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/katzenb/rsa.html. ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________ Department of Computing, Macquarie University A position of a Research Fellow in Number Theory and Cryptography is available. For more information see http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/acac/positions/ or email to Igor Shparlinski, igor@comp.mq.edu.au. (26-jun-02) _________________________________________________________________ Infineon Technologies Infineon Technologies AG, Department CC TI DFM CPM, located in Munich, Germany, offers the following position: Software Engineer for Cryptographic Algorithms CPM is CC sub-department for development of cryptoprocessors and modules. The Software Engineer would be responsible for implementation of high secure an d performant crypto algorithms, support of core concept and application engineering, Specifi cations, development of architecture models in software. Interested party please contact Tanja Roemer St-Martin Str.76 81541 Munich Germany +49 (89) 234 81442 Tanja.Roemer@infineon.com Infineon Technologies AG CC TI DFM CPM Tanja Römer Sankt-Martin-Str. 76 81541 München phone: +49 89 234 81442 fax: +49 89 234 84884 Tanja.Roemer@infineon.com (10-jun-02) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 . 2002 * [1]2002 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 30-July 5, Lausanne, Switzerland. * [2]Seventh Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, July 3-5, Melbourne, Australia. * [3]International Conference on Information Security 2002 (InfoSecu02), July 10-13, Shanghai, China. * [4]Foundations of Computer Security (satellite workshop of LICS at FLoC'02), July 26, Copenhagen, Denmark. * [5]Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2002 (CHES 2002), August 13-15, Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, Redwood City, USA. * [6]11th USENIX Security Symposium, August 5-9, San Francisco, USA. * [7]Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2002), August 15-16, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. * [8]Crypto 2002, August 18-22, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [9]3rd International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA2002), August 28-30, 2002, Jeju Island, Korea * [10]Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, September 4-5, Aix en Provence, France. * [11]VII Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security, September 5-7, Asturias, Espana. * [12]Third Workshop on Security in Communication Networks, September 12-13, Amalfi, Italy. * [13]6th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2002), September 23-25, University of Essen, Germany. * [14]International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security (CNS02), September 26-28, San Francisco, California, USA. * [15]Information Security Conference '02, September 30-October 2, Sao Paulo, Brazil. * [16]Infrastructure Security Conference 2002 (InfraSec 2002) October 1-3, 2002, Bristol,UK. * [17]Workshop on Complexity-theoretical and Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, November 7-8, Bochum, Germany. * [18]9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 17-21, Washington, DC, USA. * [19]2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, November 18, Washington, DC, USA. * [20]ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism (SACT), November 21, Washington, DC, USA. * [21]ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, November 21, Washington, DC, USA. * [22]Fifth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS '02), November 20-22, San Jose, USA. * [23]5th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2002), November 28-29, 2002, Seoul, Korea. * [24]Asiacrypt 2002, December 1-5, Queenstown, New Zealand. * [25]Fourth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 02), December 9-12, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. * [26]Third International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2002), December 15-18, Hyderabad, India. * [27]R. C. Bose Centenary Workshop and Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, December 20-23, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. 2003 * [28]6th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2003), January 6-8, Miami, Florida, USA. * [29]Financial Cryptography '03, January 27-30, Gosier, Guadeloupe. * [30]FSE 2003, February 24-26, Lund, Sweden. * [31]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2003), March 24-28, Versailles, France. * [32]Eurocrypt 2003, May 4-8, Warsaw, Poland. * [33]Crypto 2003, August 17-21, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [34]Asiacrypt 2003, November 30-December 4, Taipei, Taiwan. 2004 * [35]Eurocrypt 2004, May 2-6, Interlaken, Switzerland. * [36]Crypto 2004, late August, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [37]Asiacrypt 2004, December 5-9, Cheju Island, Korea. References 1. http://isit02.epfl.ch/ 2. http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/ACISP'02 3. http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/~infosecu02/ 4. http://floc02.diku.dk/FCS/ 5. http://www.chesworkshop.org/ 6. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/ 7. http://www.engr.mun.ca/~sac2002/ 8. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2002/ 9. http://icns.ewha.ac.kr/wisa2002 10. http://www.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/~dexa02ws/ 11. http://enol.etsiig.uniovi.es/viirecsi/ 12. http://www.dia.unisa.it/SCN02/ 13. http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~weng/ecc2002.html 14. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Chuan.Wu/conference/cns02_cfp.html 15. http://www.ime.usp.br/~isc2002 16. http://www.infrasec-conf.org/ 17. http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lmi/workshop.html 18. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/ 19. http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/ 20. http://www.sait.fsu.edu/sactworkshop/sact.html 21. http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/~wpes/ 22. http://www.usenix.org/events/cardis02/ 23. http://oberon.postech.ac.kr/icisc02/ 24. http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/infosci/asiacrypt/ 25. http://www.krdl.org.sg/General/conferences/icics/Homepage.html 26. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/ 27. http://www.isical.ac.in/~rcbose/ 28. http://www.sait.fsu.edu/pkc2003/ 29. http://www.di.ens.fr/FC03/ 30. http://www.iacr.org/workshops/fse2003/ 31. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2003/ 32. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2003/ 33. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2003/ 34. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2003/ 35. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2004/ 36. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2004/ 37. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2004/ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Contact Information ______________________________________________________________________________ Officers and Directors of the IACR (2002) Officers and directors of the IACR are elected for three year terms. 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