1998 Seminars



January
  • "Quantum computing and cryptography"
    Michele Mosca, Oxford University
    January 5 (Monday), 2:30 pm, MC 5136.
March
  • "Regulator computations in function fields"
    Andreas Stein, University of Manitoba
    March 5 (Thursday), 2:30 pm, MC 5136B.
  • "Speeding up Pollard's rho method for computing discrete logarithms"
    Edlyn Teske, Techincal University of Darmstadt
    March 6 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
  • "Sequences, Continuted Fractions, and Orthogonality"
    Alan Lauder, Royal Holloway College
    March 19 (Thursday), 2:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "Fermat's Last Theorem and Cryptography"
    Gerhard Frey, University of Essen
    March 25 (Wednesday), 11:30 am, MC 5158.
April
  • "Cryptanalysis of LFSR-based Cryptosystem for Location Problems"
    Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute
    April 30 (Thursday), 2:00 pm, MC 5136.
June
  • "FISH and I"
    William Tutte, University of Waterloo
    June 19 (Friday), 3:30 pm, DC 1351.
August
  • "Differential-Linear Weak Key Classes of IDEA"
    Philip Hawkes, University of Queensland
    August 12 (Wednesday), 2:30 pm, MC 5136.
September
  • "Get Set for the 'Net: Release 3.0 - you ain't seen nothin' yet!"
    Steve Mott, BetterBuyDesign.com
    September 18 (Friday), 10:00 am, DC 1304.
  • "Conjectured binary sequences with 2-level auto-corrleation"
    Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
    September 23 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm"
    Neal Koblitz, University of Washington/University of Waterloo
    September 24 (Thursday), 11:00 am, MC 5136.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (cont'd)"
    Neal Koblitz, University of Washington/University of Waterloo
    September 29 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
October
  • "SIMATH and LIDIA"
    Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    October 6 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Traceability schemes"
    Ruizhong Wei, University of Waterloo
    October 7 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (preliminary experiments)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    October 13 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (preliminary experiments)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    October 20 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Efficient arithmetic for hyperelliptic cryptosystems"
    Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo
    October 21 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (asymptotic analysis)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    October 26 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Breaking high-genus hyperelliptic cryptosystems in provably subexponential time"
    Andreas Enge, University of Augsburg (Germany)
    October 27 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
November
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (experimental results)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    November 3 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Key distribution patterns"
    Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
    November 6 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (experimental results)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    November 10 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "How pure math almost killed e-commerce"
    Neal Koblitz, University of Waterloo
    November 10 (Tuesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
  • "Elliptic curve pseudorandom sequence generators"
    Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
    November 11 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "The NTRU public-key cryptosystem"
    Neal Koblitz, University of Waterloo
    November 17 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Proving the exact security of cryptosystems in the random oracle model"
    John-Paul Pretti, University of Waterloo
    November 18 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "Silverman's ECDLP algorithm (experimental results)"
    Mike Jacobson, Neal Koblitz, Andreas Stein and Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
    November 24 (Tuesday), 11:00 am, MC 6091A.
  • "Computing roots of polynomials over function fields of curves"
    Shuhong Gao, Clemson University (USA)
    November 25 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
  • "Absolute irreducibility of polynomials via Newton polytopes"
    Shuhong Gao, Clemson University (USA)
    November 27 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
December
  • "Computing discrete logarithms in quadratic orders"
    Mike Jacobson, University of Waterloo
    December 2 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.