The 6th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2002)

University of Essen, Essen, Germany
September 23, 24 & 25, 2002
Fourth Announcement: August 12, 2002

The full version of this announcement is available here.

ECC 2002 is the sixth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes of ECC 2002 will be:

• The discrete logarithm and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems.
• Efficient parameter generation and point counting.
• Provably secure cryptographic protocols for encryption, signatures and key agreement.
• Efficient software and hardware implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems.
• Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.

• Alcatel Canada
• Certicom Corp.
• CV Cryptovision
• EDIZONE GmbH
• Metris
• MITACS
• Philips Semiconductors
• Research Alliance Data Security NRW
• University of Essen
• University of Waterloo

• Gerhard Frey (University of Essen)
• Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
• Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo)
• Annegret Weng (University of Essen)

• Dan Bleichenbacher   (Lucent Technologies, USA)
• Jens Franke   (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Steven Galbraith   (Royal Holloway College, UK)
• Nils Gura   (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA)
• Kiran Kedlaya   (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Thorsten Kleinjung   (University of Bonn, Germany)
• Alan Lauder   (Oxford University, UK)
• Ansgar Lohoff   (CV Cryptovision, Germany)
• Kumar Murty   (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Kim Nguyen   (Philips Semiconductors GmbH, Germany)
• Phong Nguyen   (ENS, Paris, France)
• David Pointcheval   (ENS, Paris, France)
• Takakazu Satoh   (Saitama University, Japan)
• Gerhard Schabhueser   (BSI, Germany)
• Rene Schoof   (University of Rome, Italy)
• Emmanuel Thome   (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
• Frederik Vercauteren   (University of Bristol, UK)

• Bleichenbacher    On the generation of DSA one-time keys
• Franke/Kleinjung    Recent progress in GNFS factorization
• Galbraith    Supersingular curves and the Tate pairing
• Gura    An end-to-end systems approach to elliptic curve cryptography
• Kedlaya    p-adic cohomology and the computation of zeta functions
• Lauder    Computing zeta functions of hyperelliptic curves via L-functions of character sums
• Lohoff    Secure implementation of public key algorithms on smartcard processors
• Murty    The number of points on an Abelian variety over a finite field
• Kim Nguyen    ECC - the state of the art in smart card environments
• Phong Nguyen    Lattice-based cryptography : An overview
• Pointcheval    About security proofs in the discrete logarithm setting
• Satoh    On an algorithm for finding fixed point of certain contraction maps and its application to point counting
• Schabhueser    How to find the "socially accepted" minimal keylength for Digital Signature Algorithms
• Schoof    Computing Arakelov class groups
• Thome    Computing discrete logs in large characteristic 2 finite fields
• Vercauteren    Extensions of Kedlaya's algorithm

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Registration Fee:                            Euro 150   / $150 US

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