______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR Newsletter Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall 2002. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Contents ______________________________________________________________________________ * Editorial * Asiacrypt 2002 - Register early! * Don Coppersmith to hold 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecture * Call for Papers to FSE 2003 * Announcements + STORK Cryptography Workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Future Research + 8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS) * New reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive * There are no new books in this issue. * Open positions * Calendar of events in cryptology * IACR contact information ______________________________________________________________________________ Editorial ______________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the 13th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter! While preparing this issue, I was wondering how many IACR members actually read the newsletter in text format as sent in the email. The email is sent at the same time when the new issue goes up on the web, and I understand that many readers working through their email inboxes take it as the opportunity to read the newsletter on the web. Fact is, converting the web newsletter to ASCII text for the email takes some extra time and effort, which I may want to cut down in the future. And I believe there aren't many people with access to Internet email but no web browser -- ? Please let me know your opinion on this: - If you don't read the newsletter in the email, and can live with a reminder email, then send email to newsletter@iacr.org with subject "R" (like reminder). - If you read the newsletter in the body of the email, and want us to continue this, then send email to newsletter@iacr.org with subject "F" (like full text). I'll report on your answers in the next issue. (I'll also learn how many of you read this ...) In any case, please send your contributions to the Newsletter to newsletter@iacr.org The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in February 2003. 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ Asiacrypt 2002 - Register early! ______________________________________________________________________________ For those of you who intend to go to Asiacrypt 2002 in Queenstown, New Zealand this year, this is a reminder that you need to register very soon. Travel to this part of the world is difficult at the best of times but on short notice it is almost impossible. Waiting until the last possible minute is an option that you may regret. Why come to Asiacrypt 2002? The most important part of any conference is the quality, relevance and timeliness of the papers. Asiacrypt 2002 has received 175 submissions - a record. The result was a larger reservoir of great papers - 35 have been selected and the quality is excellent. As host we have done everything in our power to make this conference a memorable one that will be talked about for years. Have a look at the programme. Don't miss this one - register today! Have a look at our program at the Asiacrypt 2002 web site: http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/infosci/asiacrypt/. Dr. Henry B. Wolfe - Chairman Asiacrypt 2002 Associate Professor Computer Security & Forensics Information Science Department School of Business University of Otago Corner of Clyde & Union Streets P.O. Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand Tel: (+64 3) 479-8141 Fax: (+64 3) 479-8311 Email: hwolfe@infoscience.otago.ac.nz ______________________________________________________________________________ Don Coppersmith to hold 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecture ______________________________________________________________________________ Don Coppersmith has been appointed 2003 IACR Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture will be given at Asiacrypt 2003. We look forward to his presentation. ______________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers for FSE 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ FSE 2003 February 24-26, 2003 Lund, Sweden Call for Papers Original research papers on technical aspects of symmetric cryptology are invited for submission to Fast Software Encryption workshop 2003. The workshop concentrates on all aspects of fast primitives for symmetric cryptography: secret key ciphers, the design and cryptanalysis of block and stream ciphers, as well as hash functions and message authentication codes (MACs). FSE 2003 is the tenth annual FSE workshop, for the second year sponsored by the [1]International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and organized in cooperation with the [2]Department of Information Technology, Lund University. Important dates are: Conference February 24 - 26, 2003 Submission deadline November 30, 2002 Notification of decision January 15, 2003 Pre-proceedings version deadline February 10, 2003 Proceedings version deadline March 30, 2003 Instructions for Authors Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other international conference or workshop. Submission Format: The submission 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 keywords. The length of the submission should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices. It should use at least 11-point fonts and have reasonable sized margins. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. 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. It is strongly preferred that submissions be processed in LaTeX according to the instructions listed on [3]http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, since this will be a mandatory requirement for the final papers. Submission: Submitted papers must be in PDF ([4]http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm) or postscript format and should be submitted electronically to [5]fse2003@it.lth.se. In the email body should be included name and address of all authors as well as an email address to the corresponding author. Submission deadline: November 30, 2002. Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by January 15, 2003. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Conference Proceedings: Pre-proceedings will be available at the workshop. Final proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. Program Committee Ross Anderson Cambridge University, UK Anne Canteaut Inria, France Joan Daemen Protonworld, Belgium Cunsheng Ding Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hans Dobbertin University of Bochum, Germany Henri Gilbert France Telecom, France Jovan Golic Gemplus, Italy Thomas Johansson (chair) Lund University, Sweden Lars Knudsen Technical University of Denmark Helger Lipmaa Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Mitsuru Matsui Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Willi Meier Fachhochschule Aargau, Switzerland Kaisa Nyberg Nokia, Finland Bart Preneel K.U. Leuven, Belgium Vincent Rijmen Cryptomathic, Belgium Matt Robshaw Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Serge Vaudenay EPFL, Switzerland David Wagner U.C. Berkeley, USA Workshop information Further information is available on the FSE 2003 webpage www.it.lth.se/fse03. For other information, contact: Ben Smeets (general chair), Ericsson Mobile Platforms, Lund, Sweden, email: fse2003_org@it.lth.se 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcements ______________________________________________________________________________ ** STORK Cryptography Workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Future Research Late-breaking news: the preliminary program is online at http://www.stork.eu.org/workshop.html STORK Cryptography Workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Future Research November 26-27, 2002 Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici, Bruges, BELGIUM http://www.stork.eu.org/workshop.html Introduction The IST project STORK has the objective of establishing a roadmap for future European research in cryptography within the 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006). To this end, an open workshop is being held on November 26-27, 2002, with the following objectives: * to identify gaps between state of the art in cryptology research and current and forthcoming requirements for cryptographic algorithms and techniques; * to establish a constituency of interested parties to contribute to and monitor the work of the STORK project in its planning of future research under FP6. The workshop is open to all interested parties. It will last for one and a half days, starting in the morning on Tuesday 26th November and ending with lunch on Wednesday 27th November. The preliminary program is now available. Submitting a position paper is no prerequisite for participation in the workshop. The deadline for early registration is October 28 ! The workshop will take place in Bruges at the Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici, situated just off the busy tourist centre of the city. Registration fee There are two possibilities : * Early registration : EUR 170,00. Form and payment must be received before October 28. * Normal registration : EUR 200,00. Form and payment received after October 28. In addition to the scientific program, payment of the registration fee entitles to : * a 3-course lunch on Tuesday November 26 * a group dinner in a restaurant in Bruges on the evening of November 26 * a 3-course lunch on Wednesday November 27 * coffee breaks and refreshments during the meeting How to register to the workshop Download and print out the registration form which is available on this website (Word or PDF). Complete the form carefully and return it with your payment information to the organizing secretariat. You will receive a confirmation of your registration by e-mail. Payments Payment must accompany the registration for the meeting. Payment by credit card is the preferred method. Cheques will not be accepted. However payment by bank transfer is possible, but only for Belgian participants. Please contact the organizing secretariat for bank account details. Cancellations Cancellations in writing to the Organizing Secretariat Momentum before November 9, 2002 will be considered for a full refund less EUR 25 handling fee. After this date no refund will be made. Refunds will be handled after the workshop and only through the participant's credit card account. Organizing secretariat Momentum C/O Anne De Smet Industrieweg 3 B-3001 Leuven Phone +32 16 40 45 55 Fax +32 16 40 35 51 E-mail: momentum@village.uunet.be Hotel accommodation Hotel accommodation has been reserved at a special group rate in the hotel where the workshop will take place, the Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici****. Room rates are quoted per room, per night including breakfast , VAT and city tax. These rates will only be valid when booking through the conference organizer, Momentum, and not when booking directly to the hotel. ** 8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS) Palmse, Estonia March 2 - 7, 2003 CALL for PARTICIPATION BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES EWSCS is a series of regional-scope international winter schools held annually in Estonia. EWSCS are organized by CIDEC, a joint initiative of Institute of Cybernetics (Tallinn), Tallinn Technical University and University of Tartu for the advancement of higher education in computer science and information technology. EWSCS'03 is the eighth event of the series. The main objective of EWSCS is to expose Estonian, Baltic, and Nordic graduate students in computer science (but also interested students from elsewhere) to frontline research topics usually not covered within the regular curricula. The subject of the schools is general computer science, with a bias towards theory, this comprising both algorithms, complexity and models of computation, and semantics, logic and programming theory. The working language of the schools is English. PROGRAMME The schools' scientific programme consists of short courses by renowned specialists and a student session. The course list for EWSCS'03 is the following: * Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J. Watson RC): Algorithmic Information Theory * Patrick Cousot (ENS): Abstract Interpretation * Ivan Damgård (Aarhus U.): Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation * Johan Håstad (KTH): The PCP Theorem with Some Applications to Inapproximability For the student session, short presentations (20 min) are solicited from the participants of the school. The selection is based on abstracts of roughly one page (50-60 lines of plain text). The social programme consists of an excursion and a conference dinner. VENUE Palmse is a small settlement in the county of Lääne-Viru, 80 kms to the east from Tallinn, renowned for a large manor that used to belong to the von Pahlen family, today hosting the visitors' center of the Lahemaa National Park. Tallinn, Estonia's capital, is famous for its pictoresque mediaeval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. There are direct ights to Tallinn from London, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna, Moscow, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, ferries from Stockholm and Helsinki. From Vilnius, Riga, the Eurolines coach service is the practical travel option. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jaan Penjam, Institute of Cybernetics (co-chair) Jüri Vain, Tallinn Technical University (co-chair) Monika Perkmann, Institute of Cybernetics (secretary) Helger Lipmaa, Helsinki University of Technology Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics Heli Uibo, University of Tartu Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Jaak Vilo, EBI, Cambridge WEBPAGE www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003/ EMAIL CONTACT cidec@cs.ioc.ee ______________________________________________________________________________ New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive ______________________________________________________________________________ (The list contains reports posted since the last newsletter issue appeared.) 2002/159 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Key-Collision Attacks Against RMAC Tadayoshi Kohno 2002/158 ( PS PS.GZ ) The Book of Rijndaels Elad Barkan and Eli Biham 2002/157 ( PS PS.GZ ) In How Many Ways Can You Write Rijndael? Elad Barkan and Eli Biham 2002/156 ( PS PS.GZ ) Validating Digital Signatures without Time-Stamping and Certificate Revocation Jianying Zhou, Feng Bao, and Robert Deng 2002/155 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secure Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Bits Steven D. Galbraith, Herbie J. Hopkins, Igor E. Shparlinski 2002/154 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On multi-exponentiation in cryptography Roberto M. Avanzi 2002/153 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Weighted Coordinates on Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curves Tanja Lange 2002/152 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A note on Weak Keys of PES, IDEA and some Extended Variants Jorge Nakahara Jr and Bart Preneel and Joos Vandewalle 2002/151 ( PDF ) Selective disclosure blinded credential sets Jason Holt and Kent E. Seamons 2002/150 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis of the Lee-Hwang Group-Oriented Undeniable Signature Schemes Guilin Wang, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng 2002/149 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) About Filliol's Observations on DES, AES and Hash Functions (draft) Nicolas T. Courtois 2002/148 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The EMD Mode of Operation (A Tweaked, Wide-Blocksize, Strong PRP) Phillip Rogaway 2002/147 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Inversion-Free Arithmetic on Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curves Tanja Lange 2002/146 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Bauer-Berson-Feiertag attack revisited Jun-Bum Shin and Kwang H. Lee 2002/145 ( PS PS.GZ ) Cryptanalysis of MQV with partially known nonces P.J. Leadbitter, N.P. Smart 2002/144 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Some Algebraic Structures in the AES Round Function A.M. Youssef and S.E. Tavares 2002/143 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Attack on the Isomorphisms of Polynomials Problem with One Secret Willi Geiselmann and Willi Meier and Rainer Steinwandt 2002/142 ( PDF ) On the Applicability of Distinguishing Attacks Against Stream Ciphers Greg Rose and Philip Hawkes 2002/141 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Applying General Access Structure to Proactive Secret Sharing Schemes Ventzislav Nikov and Svetla Nikova and Bart Preneel and Joos Vandewalle 2002/140 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Universally Composable Two-Party and Multi-Party Secure Computation Ran Canetti and Yehuda Lindell and Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai 2002/139 ( PS PS.GZ ) Reaction Attacks on Public Key Cryptosystems Based on the Word Problem Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Rainer Steinwandt 2002/138 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Security of HFE, HFEv- and Quartz Nicolas T. Courtois and Magnus Daum and Patrick Felke 2002/137 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Provably Secure Steganography Nicholas J. Hopper and John Langford and Luis von Ahn 2002/136 ( PS PS.GZ ) Practical Non-Interactive Key Distribution Based on Pairings R\'egis Dupont and Andreas Enge 2002/135 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Cryptanalysis-tolerant Commitment and Hashing Amir Herzberg 2002/134 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing and Proactive Cryptosystems Christian Cachin and Klaus Kursawe and Anna Lysyanskaya and Reto Strobl 2002/133 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Construction of (Distributed) Verifiable Random Functions Yevgeniy Dodis 2002/132 ( PS PS.GZ ) Tight Lower Bound on Linear Authenticated Encryption Charanjit S. Jutla 2002/131 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Improved Pseudorandom Generator Based on Hardness of Factoring Nenad Dedic and Leonid Reyzin and Salil Vadhan 2002/130 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) OAEP++ : A Very Simple Way to Apply OAEP to Deterministic OW-CPA Primitives Kazukuni Kobara and Hideki Imai 2002/129 ( PDF ) On Key-collisions in (EC)DSA Schemes Tomas Rosa 2002/128 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Perfectly Secure Message Transmission Revisited Yvo Desmedt and Yongge Wang 2002/127 ( PS PS.GZ ) Power of a Public Random Permutation and its Application to Authenticated-Encryption Kaoru Kurosawa 2002/126 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Assumptions Related to Discrete Logarithms: Why Subtleties Make a Real Difference Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Michael Steiner 2002/125 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) The Jacobi Model of an Elliptic Curve and Side-Channel Analysis Olivier Billet and Marc Joye 2002/124 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On Optimal Hash Tree Traversal for Interval Time-Stamping Helger Lipmaa 2002/123 ( PS PS.GZ ) New covering radius of Reed-Muller codes for $t$-resilient functions Kaoru Kurosawa, Tetsu Iwata and Takayuki Yoshiwara 2002/122 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) ID-Based One Round Authenticated Tripartite Key Agreement Protocol with Pairings Fangguo Zhang, Shengli Liu and Kwangjo Kim 2002/121 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Arithmetic on Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curves over Finite Fields via Explicit Formulae Tanja Lange 2002/120 ( PS PS.GZ ) Security Analysis of IKE's Signature-based Key-Exchange Protocol Ran Canetti and Hugo Krawczyk 2002/119 ( PDF ) Provably Secure Public-Key Encryption for Length-Preserving Chaumian Mixes Bodo M\"oller 2002/118 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient threshold signature, multisignature and blind signature schemes based on the Gap-Diffie-Hellman-group signature scheme Alexandra Boldyreva 2002/117 ( PS PS.GZ ) Diffie-Hellman Problems and Bilinear Maps Jung Hee Cheon and Dong Hoon Lee 2002/116 ( PS PS.GZ ) How to convert any ID-based Signature Schemes Claude Castelluccia 2002/115 ( PS PS.GZ ) Universal Padding Schemes for RSA Jean-Sébastien Coron and Marc Joye and David Naccache and Pascal Paillier 2002/114 ( PS PS.GZ ) Point Multiplication on Ordinary Elliptic Curves over Fields of Characteristic Three N.P. Smart and J. Westwood 2002/113 ( PS PS.GZ ) A Note on the Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Assumption Yacov Yacobi 2002/112 ( PS PS.GZ ) An Efficient Procedure to Double and Add Points on an Elliptic Curve Kirsten Eisentraeger, Kristin Lauter, and Peter L. Montgomery 2002/111 ( PS PS.GZ ) On Linear Redundancy in the AES S-Box Joanne Fuller and William Millan 2002/110 ( PS PS.GZ ) The GGM Construction does NOT yield Correlation Intractable Function Ensembles Oded Goldreich 2002/109 ( PDF ) A New Class of Unsafe Primes Qi Cheng 2002/108 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Clock-Controlled Alternating Step Generator Ali Adel Kanso 2002/107 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves Tanja Lange 2002/106 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Secret sharing schemes on access structures with intersection number equal to one Jaume Marti-Farre and Carles Padro 2002/105 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Extension of Kedlaya's Algorithm to Hyperelliptic Curves in Characteristic 2 Jan Denef and Frederik Vercauteren 2002/104 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Forward-Secure Signatures with Fast Key Update Anton Kozlov and Leonid Reyzin 2002/103 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) On the Power of Claw-Free Permutations Yevgeniy Dodis and Leonid Reyzin 2002/102 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Applying General Access Structure to Metering Schemes Ventzislav Nikov and Svetla Nikova and Bart Preneel and Joos Vandewalle 2002/101 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) An Upper Bound on the Size of a Code with the $k$-Identifiable Parent Property Simon R. Blackburn 2002/100 ( PS PS.GZ ) Encryption-Scheme Security in the Presence of Key-Dependent Messages J. Black and P. Rogaway and T. Shrimpton 2002/099 ( PS PS.GZ ) A New Statistical Testing for Symmetric Ciphers and Hash Functions Eric Filiol 2002/098 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Identity-Based Signcryption John Malone-Lee 2002/097 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A new public key encryption scheme provably secure against adaptive chosen cipher-text attack Huafei Zhu 2002/096 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Generating Large Non-Singular Matrices over an Arbitrary Field with Blocks of Full Rank James Xiao and Yongxin Zhou 2002/095 ( PDF ) The (a, b)-Shrinking Generator Ali Adel Kanso 2002/094 ( PS PS.GZ ) Building curves with arbitrary small MOV degree over finite prime fields R. Dupont and A. Enge and F. Morain 2002/093 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A Fuzzy Vault Scheme Ari Juels and Madhu Sudan 2002/092 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) TMAC: Two-Key CBC MAC Kaoru Kurosawa and Tetsu Iwata 2002/091 ( PS PS.GZ ) Multiplicative Masking and Power Analysis of AES Jovan Dj. Goli\'{c} 2002/090 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Efficient and Concurrent Zero-Knowledge from any public coin HVZK protocol Daniele Micciancio and Erez Petrank 2002/089 ( PS PS.GZ ) On Chosen Ciphertext Security of Multiple Encryptions Oded Goldreich, Yoad Lustig and Moni Naor 2002/088 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Constructing Elliptic Curves with Prescribed Embedding Degrees Paulo S. L. M. Barreto and Ben Lynn and Michael Scott 2002/087 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Higher Order Correlation Attacks, XL algorithm and Cryptanalysis of Toyocrypt Nicolas T. Courtois 2002/086 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Adapting the weaknesses of the Random Oracle model to the Generic Group model. Alexander W. Dent 2002/085 ( PS PS.GZ ) Efficient and Player-Optimal Strong Consensus Matthias Fitzi and Juan A. Garay 2002/084 ( PDF ) Guaranteed Delivery for Secure Electronic Commerce and Payments Amir Herzberg 2002/083 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) A semantically secure elliptic curve RSA scheme with small expansion factor David Galindo and Sebasti\`a Mart\'{\i}n and Paz Morillo and Jorge L. Villar 2002/082 ( PS PS.GZ ) Authentication of Quantum Messages Howard Barnum and Claude Crepeau and Daniel Gottesman and Adam Smith and Alain Tapp 2002/081 ( PS PS.GZ PDF ) Some Applications of Threshold Signature Schemes to Distributed Protocols Vanesa Daza and Javier Herranz and Germ\'an S\'aez ______________________________________________________________________________ Open Positions in Cryptology ______________________________________________________________________________ IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology. The listing is available on the Web at [1]http://www.iacr.org/jobs/ and also included in the [2]IACR Newsletter that is sent to members three times per year. To advertise your job opportunities, please send a description of no more than 150 words in plain ASCII text by email to jobs(at)iacr.org. This should include an URL and further contact information. No attachments or word documents, please! (Submissions in other formats than text will not be posted.) As this is intended to be a service to the members of IACR, it is free for all members. We ask that commercial enterprises who want to advertise their openings identify at least one of their employees who is a member of IACR. (IACR does not know corporate membership.) Please contact the membership secretariat to [3]become a member of IACR. On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for sponsors for its conferences. _________________________________________________________________ Queensland University of Technology The Information Security Research Centre (www.isrc.qut.edu.au) at QUT is seeking applications from persons interested in becoming a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. Further details about these fellowships can be found at: http://www.isrc.qut.edu.au/about/positions/ Interested applicants should first contact the Centre director, Prof. Ed Dawson (e.dawson@qut.edu.au) to discuss research areas. Applications due by 8 November 2002. (15-Oct-02) _________________________________________________________________ The Weizmann Institute of Science A number of fellowships for postdoctoral research in the fields of Computer Science and Pure and Applied Mathematics will be offered by the Weizmann Institute of Science. The website of the Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty is http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il. The deadlines for the submission of applications are January 1 and May 15, 2003. Additional information and application forms are available on the website http://www.weizmann.ac.il/feinberg or by writing to Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Feinberg Graduate School, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel; Fax: 972-8-934-4114. (03-Oct-02) _________________________________________________________________ Technical University of Denmark A permanent position of assistant/associate professor in cryptology is available at the Department of Mathematics of Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. For more information see http://www.adm.dtu.dk/nyheder/job/sos0411_e.htm (29-Sep-02) _________________________________________________________________ Macquarie University Department of Computing and Centre for Advanced Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography, Macquarie University A permanent position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Cryptography is available. For more information see http://www.pers.mq.edu.au/ads/2002/Aug/9956.html (19-08-02) _________________________________________________________________ NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, located in Palo Alto, CA, has an opening for a qualified security researcher. The jobs involve providing security consulting services to various divisions within NTT (both in the U.S. and in Japan). There will also be an opportunity to conduct basic research. For more information see: http://www.nttmcl.com/sec/Info/Jobs/securityResearcherJob.htm or email us at: security_group (at) nttmcl.com. (12-aug-02) _________________________________________________________________ Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tenure-track Faculty Positions in Cryptography, Information Security The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) invites applications for one or more tenure track faculty positions in the area of cryptography and information security. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate, and will be expected to have a strong commitment to development of a funded research program as well as to high quality undergraduate and graduate engineering education. Positions are available at the Assistant and Associate Professor levels. Experience in industry is desirable. For inquires please contact Dr. John A. Orr Head, ECE Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609-2280 phone: 508-831-5273 email: orr@wpi.edu (12-aug-02) _________________________________________________________________ Assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiter/-in) University Frankfurt In the Mathematics Department of the Frankfurt University there is an open position of an assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/-in, BAT IIa) for 3+2 years in the field of mathematical computer science (complexity, cryptography). Requirement: * degree in science, e.g. master or phd. * GERMAN LANGUAGE SKILLS Please send applications to: Prof. Dr. C.P. Schnorr J.W.Goethe-Universit\"at Fb. Mathematik (Fach 187) Postfach 11 19 32 60054 Frankfurt Germany email: schnorr@cs.uni-frankfurt.de (12-aug-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]Third NESSIE Workshop, November 6-7, Munich, Germany. * [2]Workshop on Complexity-theoretical and Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, November 7-8, Bochum, Germany. * [3]43rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2002), November 16-19, Vancouver, Canada. * [4]9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 17-21, Washington, DC, USA. * [5]2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, November 18, Washington, DC, USA. * [6]ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism (SACT), November 21, Washington, DC, USA. * [7]ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, November 21, Washington, DC, USA. * [8]Fifth Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS '02), November 20-22, San Jose, USA. * [9]STORK Cryptography Workshop, November 26-27, Bruges, Belgium. * [10]5th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2002), November 28-29, 2002, Seoul, Korea. * [11]Second International Workshop for Asian PKI (IWAP2002), October 30-November 1, Taipei, Taiwan. * [12]Asiacrypt 2002, December 1-5, Queenstown, New Zealand. * [13]Fourth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 02), December 9-12, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore. * [14]First IEEE International Security In Storage Workshop (SISW2002), December 11, Greenbelt MD, USA. * [15]Third International Conference on Cryptology in India (Indocrypt 2002), December 15-18, Hyderabad, India. * [16]R. C. Bose Centenary Workshop and Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Applications, December 20-23, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. 2003 * [17]6th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2003), January 6-8, Miami, Florida, USA. * [18]Financial Cryptography '03, January 27-30, Gosier, Guadeloupe. * [19]Workshop on Smartcards and Side Channel Attacks, January 30-31, Bochum, Germany. * [20]FSE 2003, February 24-26, Lund, Sweden. * [21]8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS), March 2-7, Palmse, Estonia. * [22]First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, March 12-14, Boppard, Germany. * [23]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2003), March 24-28, Versailles, France. * [24]Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2003, Mar 26-28, Dresden, Germany. * [25]2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'2003), March 31 through April 4, Paris, France. * [26]Cryptographers' Track RSA Conference 2003 (CT-RSA 2003), April 13-17, San Francisco, USA. * [27]Eurocrypt 2003, May 4-8, Warsaw, Poland. * [28]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 11-14, Oakland, California, USA. * [29]35th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), June 9-11, San Diego, USA. * [30]ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'03), June 9-12, San Diego, USA. * [31]Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Combinatorics (CCC 2003), June 23-28, Yellow Mountain City, China. * [32]2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2003), June 29-July 4, Yokohama, Japan. * [33]Security in Distributed Computing Special Track (PODC 2003), July 13-16, Boston, USA. * [34]Crypto 2003, August 17-21, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [35]Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2003, September 7-10, Cologne, Germany. * [36]Asiacrypt 2003, November 30-December 4, Taipei, Taiwan. 2004 * [37]Eurocrypt 2004, May 2-6, Interlaken, Switzerland. * [38]Crypto 2004, late August, Santa Barbara, California, USA. * [39]Asiacrypt 2004, December 5-9, Cheju Island, Korea. Past events are [40]archived here. 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