2000 Seminars

January

• Virtual Private Networks
  Ken Giuliani, University of Waterloo
  Jan 17 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Optimizing Baby Step-Giant Step Methods
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  Jan 24 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• On secret set schemes
  Barbara Masucci, University of Waterloo
  Jan 31 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• A Cryptographic Application of Certain Cubic Plane Curves
  Mark Bauer, University of Illinois
  Feb 7 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Efficient Signed-Digit Representation Used in Cryptography
  Huapeng Wu, University of Waterloo
  Feb 14 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Enumeration and Criteria for Cyclically Shift-Distinct GMW Sequences
  Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  Feb 21 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• On the Interpolation Attacks on Block Ciphers
  Amr Youssef, University of Waterloo
  Feb 28 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Non-Interactive Public-Key Cryptography
  Michael Jacobson, University of Waterloo
  Mar 6 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• A Cryptographic Key Exchange Technique Using Real Quadratic Fields
  Hugh Williams, University of Manitoba/University of Waterloo
  Mar 7 (Tuesday), 4:00 pm, MC 5158
• Finite Field Computation Using Redundant Basis
  Huapeng Wu, University of Waterloo
  Mar 13 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Speeding up the Arithmetic of Hyperelliptic Curves
  Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo
  Mar 20 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Fast Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Koblitz Curves
  Tanja Lange, TU Braunschweig (Germany)
  Mar 27 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Solving the Pell Equation
  Hugh Williams, University of Manitoba/University of Waterloo
  Apr 3 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
  Michael Neilsen, University of Queensland
  Apr 26 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, DC 1304

• Some Remarks on QF-Based Primality Testing
  Siguna Muller, University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
  May 15 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Security Analysis for Implicit Certificates
  Daniel Brown, Certicom Corp.
  May 25 (Thursday), 3:00 pm, MC 5136

• A method for constructing hyperelliptic curves suitable
  for cryptography
  Annegret Weng, University of Essen (Germany)
  June 12 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Public-Key Technology: Storming the World in 25 Short Years
  Paul C. Van Oorschot, Entrust Technologies
  June 16 (Friday), 2:30 pm, DC 1351
• Unconditionally secure commitment schemes
  Douglas R. Stinson, University of Waterloo
  June 23 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158

• Covering arrays
  Mark Chateauneuf, University of Waterloo
  September 18 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Linking classical and Quantum Key Agreement - Is There Bound "Information"?
  Stefan Wolf, University of Waterloo
  September 25 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Recent results on combinatorial methods for traceability
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  September 28 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Designs with weighted points
  Alex Dent, University of Waterloo
  October 2 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• The Decimation-Hamdamard Transform of Two-level
  Autocorelation Sequences
  Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  October 5 (Thursday), 3;30 pm, MC 5136
• Quantum Computer Algorithms
  Michele Mosca, University of Waterloo
  October 12 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 6091A
• Reducing Oblivious Transfer to Weaker Primitives
  Stefan Wolf, University of Waterloo
  October 13 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158
• Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval
  Palash Sarkar, University of Waterloo
  October 16 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• The Drake-Larson problem on finite linear spaces
  Ron Mullin, University of Waterloo
  October 19 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• An Unusual Cryptographic Key Exchange Technique and its Security
  Hugh Williams, Univeristy of Manitoba
  October 20 (Friday), 9:30 am, MC 5158
• Combinatorial and Cryptographic Properties of Strongly
  Universal Random Number Generators
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  October 23 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Specialized colourings of Steiner systems & maximal arcs
  Alex Rosa, McMaster University
  October 28 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• To be announced
  Alain Tapp, University of Waterloo
  October 30 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• Diagrammatic Morphisms
  Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo
  November 6 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Quantum Computation
  Raymond Laflamme, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  November 13 (Monday), 3:30 pm, DC 1302
• The parallelized kangaroo method in real quadratic function fields
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  November 20 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Timing Analysis
  James Muir, University of Waterloo
  November 27 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136

• The Exact Security of ECDSA
  Daniel Brown, Certicom Corp.
  December 4 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136
• Resonance Offset Tailored Pulses for NMR Quantum Computation
  Holly Cummins, University of Oxford
  December 18 (Monday), 3:30 pm, C2-278
  Abstract can be viewed here.