ECRYPT's virtual lab VAMPIRE organizes SPEED - Software Performance Enhancement for Encryption and Decryption. SPEED addresses the speed of secret-key and public-key cryptography. Speed improvements can come from better systems, better algorithms, and better software.

SPEED's origin is eBATS, the ECRYPT competition on public key cryptography and one of SPEED's purposes is to provide a forum for the BAT submitters and encourage work investigating the security of the BATs. Compilers constitute an important part of software generation and better compilers can achieve higher speed and security and ease the task for the programmer. We therefore also welcome submissions on this topic.

There will be a few invited talks along with contributed talks which are selected based on submitted papers and a refereeing process. (As for all ECRYPT conferences, there will be no formal proceedings for SPEED but a workshop record with all accepted papers.)

Invited Speaker:

• Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• Torbjörn Granlund (SWOX, Sweden)
• Dag Arne Osvik (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Daniel Page (University of Bristol, UK)
• Matt Robshaw (France Telecom R+D, France)

Call for papers:

There will be no formal proceedings, but a handout with abstracts will be provided to all participants. (This avoids submissions to SPEED from conflicting with submissions to forthcoming conferences with proceedings).

Call for contributions: SPEED_CFP.txt

SPEED asks for submissions on the following topics:

• software implementation of public key systems
• software implementation of hash functions and symmetric key systems
• algorithmic speed-ups of symmetric and public key systems
• CPU specific speed-ups
  
• benchmarking of symmetric and public key systems
• security of BATs submitted to eBATS
• comparisons of BATs submitted to eBATS
  
• compilers to automate producing efficient code and executables
• compilers to introduce cryptographic security into code
• cryptographic software engineering tools

Important dates:

The submission should start with a title, a list of the authors together with their affiliations and a short abstract describing the content of the paper. This should be followed by an extended abstract of at least 5 and at most 20 pages including appendices. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee to present their paper at the workshop.

List of accepted papers for SPEED You can find the workshop version of the papers in the booklet distributed at the workshop. Note that an update of Mike Scott's paper is available below.

• Ashraf Abusharekh and Kris Gaj (George Mason University)
  Comparative Analysis of Software Libraries for Public Key Cryptography
  
  
• Neil Costigan and Michael Scott (Dublin City University)
  Accelerating SSL using the Vector processors in IBM's Cell Broadband Engine for Sony's Playstation 3
  
  
• Junfeng Fan, Kazuo Sakiyama, and Ingrid Verbauwhede (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  Montgomery Modular Multiplication Algorithm for Multi-Core Systems
  
  
• Pierrick Gaudry and Emmanuel Thomé (LORIA),
  The mpF_q library and implementing curve-based key exchanges
  
  
• Sören Rinne, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Christof Paar (Horst-Görtz Institute for IT-Security)
  Performance Analysis of Contemporary Light-Weight Block Ciphers on 8-bit Microcontrollers
  
  
• Michael Scott (Dublin City University)
  Optimal Irreducible Polynomials for GF(2^m) Arithmetic
  
  
• Leif Uhsadel, Axel Poschmann, and Christof Paar (Horst-Görtz Institute for IT-Security)
  An Efficient General Purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography Module for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
  
  
• Go Yamamoto, Satoshi Oda, and Kazumaro Aoki (NTT Corporation)
  Fast Integrity for Large Data
  
  

Program Committee:

• Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• Tanja Lange (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
• Christof Paar (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
• Daniel Page (University of Bristol, UK)
• Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK)
• Andre Weimerskirch (escrypt, Germany)

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Organization:

	SPEED is organized within ECRYPT - European Network of Excellence for Cryptology. We acknowledge the support by the European Commission under the IST program, IST-2002-507932
	We acknowledge organizational support from Coding theory & Cryptology group, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.