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The 12th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2008)
September 22-24, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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ECC 2008 is the 12th in a series of annual workshops dedicated to
the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. Over the
past years the ECC conference series has broadened its scope beyond
elliptic curve cryptography and now covers a wide range of areas
within modern cryptography. For instance, past ECC conferences
included presentations on hyperelliptic curve cryptography,
pairing-based cryptography, side-channel attacks, voting protocols,
quantum key distribution, AES, hash functions, and implementation
issues.
At the same time ECC continues to be the premier conference on
elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that ECC 2008 will further
our mission of encouraging and stimulating research on the security
and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas,
and encouraging collaboration between mathematicians, computer
scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government
sectors.
Organizers:
- Mark Bauer (University of Calgary)
- Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
- Gary McGuire (University College Dublin)
- Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
- Victor Miller (Institute for Defense Analyses)
- Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo)
Local organizers:
- Gunther Cornelissen ()
- Anita Klooster (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
- Tanja Lange (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Invited Speakers and Program:
There will be a Rump Session on
Monday evening, where participants can give short (5-10 minutes)
presentations on recent results, work in progress, or make
announcements of interest to attendees. A call for submissions for the
Rump Session will be issued to registrants in early September. More
details will be made available in due time.
Preliminary list of speakers
So far the following speakers have accepted:
Peter Birkner
Harold M. Edwards
Antoine Joux
Hyang-Sook Lee
Elisabeth Oswald
Mike Scott
Summer School:
We will host a summer school on Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve
Cryptography the week before ECC in Eindhoven. The course is intended for
graduate students in cryptography and mathematics, and will take place
from September 15-20.
Travel:
Utrecht is one of the old, typical Dutch cities with
canals and old brick houses. It is 30 minutes by train from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport) and
one of the train hubs of the Netherlands also with direct connections
to Germany. Useful pages: Search engines for international train tickets and
national
train tickets.
Accommodations:
We are currently discussing with several hotels in Utrecht to block
rooms for September 21-24. Details will be published soon. The English
information about Utrecht is not very detailed. If you dare, visit the
information in Dutch. The Utrecht
tourism site is much better.
Other events:
On Friday September 26, a special Seminar on
"Standard models of finite fields" will be held in Nijmegen. It will
address the theoretical and practical aspects of defining finite
fields algorithmically. For more information see the Intercity
Number Theory Seminar page.
Further information:
For further information, please contact:
Tanja Lange
e-mail: tanja [at] hyperelliptic.org