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Fields Cryptography Retrospective Meeting
May 11-15, 2009

to be held at
Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto

Supported by

Organizing Committee
John Friedlander, University of Toronto
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research

Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
Hugh Williams, University of Calgary
This is a follow-up workshop which is related to and built on the success of the Thematic Program on Cryptography which was held at the Fields institute in 2006. Its purpose is to survey the foremost achievements in the area (partially inspired by the success of the Thematic Program) and also to outline new directions for further investigation.

Overview

This program will engage the cryptographic and mathematical communities in Canada and abroad to increase awareness of recent developments in these fields and to initiate a greater degree of collaboration in attacking the important problems, particularly on the boundaries. Developments in certain areas of mathematics (for example, number theory, combinatorics, algebraic geometry) and in cryptography are both numerous and rapid; however, it is often the case that lack of contacts and communication between cryptographers and mathematicians presents obstacles in achieving significant advances on both sides. We hope to overcome these obstacles and foster new links between both areas.

The specific areas of concentration will be:

  • algebraic curves and cryptography
  • computational challenges arising in algorithmic number theory and cryptography
  • group theory based cryptography
  • new cryptographic protocols

It is planned to have to a series of invited talks surveying recent advances in the above areas and several contributed talks by some participants describing their most recent results.

Confirmed Speakers

Adi Akavia, (IAS)
Daniel Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago )
Reinier Bröker (Microsoft Research )
Craig Gentry(IBM)
Robert Granger (Claude Shannon Institute/Dublin City University )
Antoine Joux ( Université de Versailles )
Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven )
Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway, University of London )
François Morain (Ecole polytechnique et University of Waterloo)
Éric Schost (University of Western Ontario )
Katherine Stange (Brown University )
Rainer Steinwandt (Florida Atlantic University)
Andrew Sutherland (MIT)
Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo )
Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA )

Program

Monday, May 11
8:45-9:15 Registration and Morning Coffee and refreshments Banquet tickets for sale (The last day to purchase May 14 banquet tickets)
9:15-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:30 Antoine Joux, Université de Versailles
Looking back at lattice-based cryptanalysis
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-Noon Jean-Pierre Tillich, INRIA
Title TBA
Noon-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Craig Gentry, IBM
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Rainier Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University
Speeding up algebraic attacks: Multiple Right Hand Sides in hardware?
5:00 Reception hosted by Microsoft
Tuesday, May 12
9:00-9:30 Morning Coffee and refreshments
9:30-10:30 Andrew Sutherland, MIT
Powered by Volcanoes: Three New Algorithms
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-Noon Eric Schost, University of Western Ontario
Fast arithmetics in Artin-Schreier towers over finite fields
Noon-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-2:25 Nicolas Meloni, University of Waterloo
Elliptic curve point scalar multiplication combining double bases and Yao's algorithm
2:30-2:55 Koray Karabina, University of Waterloo
Factor-4 and 6 compression of cyclotomic subgroups
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-3:55 Peter Birkner, Eindhoven University of Technology
Edwards Curves and the ECM Factorisation Method
4:00-4:25 Atefeh Mashatan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Recent Designs for Message Recognition Protocols
4:30-4:55 Felix Fontein, University of Calgary
A Concise Interpretation of the Infrastructure of a Global Field
Wednesday, May 13
9:00-9:30 Morning Coffee and refreshments
9:30-10:30 Reinier Bröker, Microsoft Research
Constructing cryptographic curves with complex multiplication
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-Noon François Morain, École Polytechnique and University of Waterloo
Advances on the CM method for elliptic curves
12:00 noon Free afternoon
Thursday, May 14
9:00-9:30 Morning Coffee and refreshments
9:30-10:30 Katherine Stange, Harvard University
The Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem and Equivalent Hard Problems for Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-Noon Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
On Pairing-Friendly Elliptic Curves
Noon-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Adi Akavia, IAS
Solving Hidden Number Problem with One Bit Oracle and Advice
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Non-Interactive Key Distribution and Identity-Based Encryption: A Retrospective Perspective
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:15 Sanjit Chatterjee, University of Waterloo
Reusing Static Keys in Key Agreement Protocols
6:00 p.m. Conference Dinner Dinner with cash bar.
A banquet dinner will be held on Thursday May 14 at a local restaurant, tickets required.
Friday, May 15
9:00-9:30 Morning Coffee and refreshments
9:30-10:30 Tanja Lange, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Pairings on Edwards curves
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-Noon Dan Bernstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
High-speed cryptography
Noon-2:00 Lunch Break
   

Participant List

Fullname University Name
Akavia, Adi MIT
Anghel, Catalina University of Toronto
Bernstein, Daniel University of Illinois at Chicago
Birkner, Peter Eindhoven University of Technology
Bröker, Reinier Microsoft Research
Brown, Dan Certicom Research
Chatterjee, Sanjit University of Waterloo
De Feo, Luca LIX, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'X
F.I. Chowdhury, Muhammad University of Western Ontario
Fontein, Felix University of Calgary
Friedlander, John University of Toronto
Gentry, Craig IBM
Gonzalez, Madeline Florida Atlantic University
Gorla, Elisa University of Zurich
Granger, Robert Dublin City University
Greenberg, Matthew University of Calgary
Hosseini Lavasani, Syed Ahmad University of Calgary
Joux, Antoine Université de Versailles
Karabina, Koray University of Waterloo
Lange, Tanja Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Lauter, Kristin Microsoft Research
Mashatan, Atefeh EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Meloni, Nicolas University of Waterloo
Morain, Francois École Polytechnique, LIX
Orser, Brenda B.I.O. Letha Information Systems, Inc.
Ostafe, Alina University of Zurich
Paterson, Kenny Royal Holloway, University of London
Rasslan, Mohamed Concordia University
Scheidler, Renate University of Calgary
Schost, Éric University of Western Ontario
Shparlinski, Igor Macquarie University
Stange, Katherine Brown University
Steinwandt, Rainer Florida Atlantic University
Sutherland, Andrew Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teske, Edlyn University of Waterloo
Walsh, Gary CSEC & University of Ottawa
Weir, Colin University of Calgary
Williams, Hugh C. University of Calgary
Zhang, Ning University of Waterloo

 

TRAVEL SUPPORT
Application for travel support for PDF's and graduate students. Deadline to apply was April 1, 2009

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