2005 Seminars

January

• Polynomials, sieving and primality proving
  Hugh Williams, University of Calgary
  Jan 12 (Wednesday): 1:30 - 2:30 pm, MC 5158
• Integrating elliptic curve cryptography into the web's security infrastructure
  Sheueling Chang, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  Jan 20 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5136B
• Catalan and Apery numbers in residue classes
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
  Jan 27 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 6091A

• One-error linear complexity over GF(p) of Sidelnikov sequences
  Hong-Yeop Song, Yonsei University, Korea
  Feb 9 (Wednesday): 1:45 - 2:45 pm, CEIT 3142

• Security flaws in tunnel mode IPSec
  Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London
  Apr 4 (Monday): 11:00 - 12:30 pm, CEIT 3142
• Computational number theory and curve cryptography
  Andreas Stein, University of Wyoming
  Apr 28 (Thursday): 11:30 - 12:30 pm, MC 5136B

• Unconditionally secure authentication codes and digital signatures
  Henry Au, University of Waterloo
  May 16 (Monday): 1:00 - 2:00 pm, DC 3323
• Algorithms for detecting cheaters in threshold schemes
  Danny Sheng Zhang, University of Waterloo
  May 16 (Monday): 3:00 - 4:00 pm, DC 1316
• Weight distribution of irreducible polynomials over finite fields
  Omran Ahmadi, University of Waterloo
  May 19 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304

• Tree-based key distribution patterns
  Jooyoung Lee, University of Waterloo
  Jun 14 (Tuesday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5136
• A combinatorial approach to key predistribution for distributed sensor networks
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  Jun 23 (Thursday): 3:00 - 4:00 pm, CEIT 3142
• Reductions, tightness, optimality and security
  Berkant Ustaoglu, University of Waterloo
  June 30 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304

• Cryptanalysis of "more short" RSA secret exponents
  Jason Hinek, University of Waterloo
  July 7 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304
• SPA resistant left-to-right integer recodings
  Nicolas Thériault, University of Waterloo
  July 14 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304
• Algebraic attacks on block ciphers and stream ciphers
  Martin Hell, Lund University, Sweden
  July 21 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304
• The art of provable security
  Alfred Menezes, University of Waterloo
  July 22 (Friday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, MC 5158
• Secure range-independent localization for wireless sensor networks
  Radha Poovendran, University of Washington
  July 26 (Tuesday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1302
• On the discrete logarithm problem on algebraic tori
  Robert Granger, University of Waterloo
  July 28 (Thursday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1302

• Minimality of the Hamming weight of the tau-NAF for Koblitz curves and improved combination with point halving
  Roberto Avanzi, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  August 9 (Tuesday): 3:30 - 4:30 pm, DC 1304
• Digital rights management: An overview
  Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia
  August 19 (Friday): 2:00 - 3:00 pm, EIT 3142

• Unconditional security of a three-state quantum key distribution protocol
  Jamie Batuwantudawe, University of Waterloo
  September 23 (Friday): 1:00 - 2:00 pm, DC 1304

• Pseudorandom bit generators (PRBG) and stream ciphers based on random shuffle
  Souradyuti Paul, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium
  October 20 (Thursday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1316

• Differential equations of addition: theory and practice
  Souradyuti Paul, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium
  November 10 (Thursday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1331
• Access Control to Information in Pervasive Computing Environments
  Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo
  November 17 (Thursday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1331
• Gate evaluation secret sharing and secure one-round two-party computation
  Vladimir Kolesnikov, University of Toronto
  November 22 (Tuesday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1331
• Designing security and privacy technologies
  Ian Goldberg, Radialpoint, Inc.
  November 24 (Thursday): 10:30 - 11:30 am, DC 1302

• Securing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Identity-Based Schemes
  Katrin Hoeper, University of Waterloo
  December 1 (Thursday): 2:30 - 3:30 pm, DC 1331