2006 Conferences

Timetable for ECC 2006


Monday (Sep 18)

 8:00- 8:50 Registration/Coffee
 8:50- 9:00 Opening (Barbara Keyfitz & Jason Wu)
 9:00- 9:50 Kristin Lauter 
            Cryptographic hash functions from expander graphs
 9:50-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:10 Reinier Broker 
            Constructing elliptic curves for cryptography
11:10-12:00 Isabelle Dechene
            Generalized Jacobians: Natural candidates for DL-based 
            cryptography
12:00- 2:00 Lunch
 2:00- 2:50 Xavier Boyen
            Practical aspects of identity-based encryption
 2:50- 3:40 Michael Scott
            Implementing cryptographic pairings
 3:40- 4:10 Coffee break
 4:10- 5:00 Laurie Law
            Finding invalid signatures in pairing-based batches
 5:00- 5:50 Nigel Smart
            ID-based key agreement
 6:00- ??   Cocktail Reception 
 6:30- ??   Rump Session 

 8:30- 9:00 Coffee
 9:00- 9:50 David Freeman
            Methods for constructing pairing-friendly elliptic curves
 9:50-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:10 Igor Shparlinski
            Distribution of elliptic curves for pairing-based cryptography
11:10-12:00 Alice Silverberg
            Using primitive subgroups in cryptography
12:00- 2:00 Lunch
 2:00- 2:50 Dan Page
            Compilers in (elliptic curve) cryptography
 2:50- 3:40 Jan Pelzl
            Cost estimates for ECC attacks with special-purpose hardware
 3:40- 4:10 Coffee break
 4:10- 5:00 Andreas Enge
            An $L(1/3+\epsilon)$ algorithm for the discrete logarithm
            problem in low degree curves
 5:00- 5:50 Claus Diem
            An index calculus algorithm for non-singular plane curves 
            of high genus
 6:30- ??   Banquet [Chinese restaurant]

Wednesday (September 20)
 8:30- 9:00 Coffee
 9:00- 9:50 Oliver Schirokauer
            Extending the special number field sieve
 9:50-10:40 Nicolas Theriault
            Towards an exact cost analysis of index-calculus algorithms
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-12:00 Daniel J. Bernstein
            Elliptic vs. hyperelliptic, part 1
12:00-12:50 Tanja Lange
            Elliptic vs. hyperelliptic, part 2
12:50- 1:00 Closing
 1:00- 3:00 Light lunch provided