2000 Conferences

The 4th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2000)

University of Essen, Essen, Germany
October 4, 5 & 6 2000
First Announcement: February 23, 2000

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.
It is hoped that the meeting will encourage and stimulate further research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors.

There will be approximately 15 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
Organizers:
  • Gerhard Frey (University of Essen)
  • Steven Galbraith (University of Essen)
  • Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo)
  • Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo)
Confirmed Speakers:
  • Pierrick Gaudry (LIX, France)
  • Erwin Hess (Siemens, Germany)
  • Ansgar Heuser (BSI, Germany)
  • 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)
  • Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK)
  • Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Speakers who have Tentatively Accepted:
  • Neal Koblitz (University of Washington, USA)
  • Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel)
  • Victor Shoup (IBM Zurich, Switzerland)
Local Arrangements:
Essen is the largest city in the Ruhr region, and is about a 20-minute drive from Dusseldorf International airport. The second announcement will be made on May 1, and will include registration and local (i.e., hotel & transportation) information. If you did not receive this announcement by email and would like to be added to the mailing list for the second announcement, please send email to ecc2000@math.uwaterloo.ca. The announcements are also available from the web sites: www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca and www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~galbra/ecc2000.html.

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