2000 Conferences
The 4th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2000)
University of Essen, Essen, Germany
October 4, 5 & 6 2000
Fourth and Final Announcement: September 11, 2000
LOCAL TRAVEL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE
HERE.
ECC 2000 is the fourth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the
study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes
of ECC 2000 will be:
- The discrete logarithm and elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems.
- Provably secure discrete log-based cryptographic protocols for encryption, signatures and key agreement.
- Efficient software and hardware implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems.
- Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography.
There will be 17 invited lectures (and no contributed talks), with the remaining time used for informal discussions. There will be both survey lectures as well as lectures on latest research developments.
Sponsors:
- Certicom Corp.
- Communications and Information Technology Ontario
- CV Cryptovision
-
Research Alliance Data Security NRW
(NRW Forschungsverbund Datensicherheit,
Minist. SWWF, NRW, Germany)
- Infineon
- MasterCard International
- Metris
- Mondex International Limited
- Siemens AG
- University GH Essen
- University of Waterloo
- Gerhard Frey (University of Essen)
- Steven Galbraith (University of Essen)
- Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
- Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo)
- Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich, Switzerland)
- Ronald Cramer (BRICS, Denmark)
- Claus Diem (University of Essen, Germany)
- Pierrick Gaudry (LIX, France)
- Erwin Hess (Siemens, Germany)
- Ansgar Heuser (BSI, Germany)
- Neal Koblitz (University of Washington, USA)
- Robert Lambert (Certicom Corp., Canada)
- Arjen Lenstra (Citibank, USA)
- Peter Montgomery (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Christof Paar (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Phil Rogaway (University of California at Davis, USA)
- Takakazu Satoh (Saitama University, Japan)
- Ernst Schulte-Geers (BSI, Germany)
- Igor Semaev (Moscow)
- Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK)
- Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo, Canada)
There will be seventeen invited lectures. All lectures will be held on the campus of the University of Essen. The titles of the lectures are:
- Camenisch: Group Signature and Identity Escrow Schemes
- Cramer: Secure Homomorphic Multi-Party Computation: Efficient Constructions from Homomorphic Threshold Encryption and Applications to Secure Distributed Linear Algebra.
- Diem: Galois Theory and the DL-Problem
- Gaudry: Hyperelliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms
- Hess: Aspects of Public-Key Cryptosystems in Practice
- Heuser: Public Key Cryptography from the Point of View of a National InfoSec Agency
- Koblitz: Miracles of the Height Function - A Golden Shield Protecting ECC
- Lambert: Block Architectures for Cryptographic Hardware
- Lenstra: The XTR Public-Key System
- Montgomery: Parallel Block Lanczos
- Paar: Reconfigurable Hardware in Modern Cryptography
- Rogaway: Stopping Dictionary Attacks
- Satoh: Canonical Lifting of Elliptic Curves and p-Adic Point Counting -- Theoretical Background
- Schulte-Geers: Collision Search in a Random Mapping: Some Asymptotic Results
- Semaev: Discrete Logarithms in Prime Finite Fields for Special Moduli
- Smart: Recent Work on Weil Descent
- Vanstone: The Past Fifteen Years of Public-Key Cryptography
Schedule:
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Wednesday Thursday Friday
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8:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:20 Heuser Vanstone Hess
10:50-11:40 Lenstra Camenisch Rogaway
12:00-12:50 Semaev Cramer Satoh
L U N C H
14:00-14:50 Gaudry Lambert Koblitz
15:20-16:10 Smart Paar
16:30-17:20 Diem Montgomerey
17:30-18:20 Schulte-Geers
RECEPTION
20:00 BANQUET
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REGISTRATION
There will be a registration fee this year of DM 200 or $ 100 US
(DM 100 or $ 50 US for students). PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
AS SPACE IS LIMITED FOR THIS WORKSHOP; REGISTRATION IS ON A
FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS. To register, complete, in full, the
attached REGISTRATION FORM and return it
by e-mail to: ecc@exp-math.uni-essen.de
by mail to: Ms. Karin Rufaut
Institute for Experimental Mathematics
Ellernstrasse 29
45326 Essen
Germany
Phone: +49/201/183-7656(7649)
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ECC 2000 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Fullname:
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Affiliation:
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Address:
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E-Mail Address:
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Mark your choice:
Registration Fee: DM 200 / $ 100 US
Student Registration Fee: DM 100 / $ 50 US
(Registration Fee Includes Banquet)
Attending Banquet: Yes / No Vegetarian: Yes / No
Extra Guest Banquet Fee: DM 50 / $ 25 US
Guest Vegetarian: Yes / No
TOTAL REGISTRATION FEE: DM____ / $____ US
PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN CASH ON ARRIVAL AT THE RECEPTION DESK.
Accommodation (please mark your choice)
( ) I would like to reserve a single- DM 115 per night
room for ___ nights, from ___
to ___ October, 2000 (please fill
in the dates of arrival and
departure).
( ) I would like to reserve a single- DM 130 per night
room with a large bed ("grand lit")
for ___ nights, from ___ to ___
October, 2000.
( ) I would like to reserve a double- DM 75 per person / per night
room for ___ nights, from ___ to
___ October, 2000 and I would like
to share it with _________________ .
( ) I would like to reserve a bed in DM 75 per person / per night
a double-room from ____ to ___
October, 2000 and I'm ready to share
it with another participant of the
conference.
( ) I don't need a hotel room.
The hotel bill should be paid directly at the hotel reception.
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TRAVEL Essen is situated approximately 30 km from Duesseldorf International Airport and about 250 km from Frankfurt Airport. Participants should plan to arrive on October 3 to be able to attend the lectures on Wednesday morning. Duesseldorf Airport to Essen Hauptbahnhof (main station): +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From any of the terminals take the free airport bus to the train station (Flughafen bahnhof). From there you can buy a "zone C" ticket for DM13 and you must remember to validate (time stamp) the ticket before boarding the train. There are plenty of trains from this station to Essen HBF. The Zone C ticket is valid on S-Bahn, RE and IR trains. If you take an Intercity train then you will have to pay a higher fare but this can be bought from the conductor on the train. Note that there is an airport in Monchengladbach which is also called "Duesseldorf airport" and which is served by a few smaller airlines within Europe. One can also get to Essen from this airport by using the S-bahn, but the journey time is longer (about 2 hours). Frankfurt Airport to Essen Hauptbahnhof (main station): +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There is a train (InterCity) which goes directly from Frankfurt/Main Airport to "Essen Hauptbahnhof". There is one train an hour. the journey takes approximately 3 hours and costs around DM 100. An exact timetable for these (and other) trains can be found at http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/detect.exe/bin/query.exe/en Tickets may be purchased at the station or on the train. Another possibility is to take suburban train (S-Bahn) S8 to Mainz and then change to an Essen train. For "InterCity" trains it is necessary to pay a DM 7 supplement. Essen Hauptbahnhof (main station) to the University of Essen: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To walk from Essen Hauptbahnhof to the University of Essen takes around 20-25 minutes. It is also possible to take the underground train U11 direction "Universitaet Essen" and get off at the "Universitaet Essen" stop. On the underground it is necessary to buy a ticket in advance and validate (time stamp) it either before entering the platform or immediately upon boarding the train. Maps of the region, city and university can be found at: http://www.uni-essen.de/plan/
ACCOMMODATION
There is a limited block of rooms set aside on a first-come first-serve
basis at three mid-range hotels in Essen: "Korn's Hotel", "Europa"
and "Lindenhof". All three hotels are close to both the Essen main station
and the University of Essen and can easily be reached by public transport.
Breakfast is included. We ask you to make your hotel reservations with us.
In all three hotels, the price is DM 115 for a single room and DM 150 for
a double room. "Korn's Hotel" also has single rooms with a large
bed ("grand lit"), the price for these rooms is DM 130 per night. If you
prefer such a room, please indicate on the registration form. If all the
single rooms for DM 115 are booked out, we will automatically reserve
a single room with "grand lit" for DM 130 for you.
The addresses of the hotels and their exact location will be emailed to
registrants next week.
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