1999 Seminars

January

• The Russian Who Cried Wolf - Stepanov's "Algorithm" to Break DSS and ECC
  Neal Koblitz, University of Waterloo/University of Washington
  Jan 25 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Fast Multiplication on Elliptic Curves over GF(2^n) Without Precomputation
  Julio Lopez Hernandez, University of Waterloo/University of Campinas
  Feb 1 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• New Algorithm for Anomalous Binary Curves
  Jerome Solinas, University of Waterloo/National Security Agency
  Feb 8 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Breaking Cryptosystems using the LLL Algorithm
  Ken Giuliani, University of Waterloo
  Feb 16 (Tuesday), 3:00 pm, MC 5045.
• Some Baby-Step Giant-Step Algorithms for the Low Hamming Weight Discrete Logarithm Problem
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  Feb 22 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Breaking Cryptosystems using the LLL Algorithm (cont'd)
  Ken Giuliani, University of Waterloo
  Feb 24 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Accelerated Elliptic Curve Operations Using Endomorphisms and its Applications to Cryptography
  Rob Gallant, Certicom Corp.
  Feb 26 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.

• Simple Architectures for Block Ciphers
  Stafford Tavares, Queen's University
  March 1 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• The NTRU Public-Key Cryptosystem
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  March 3 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• On the Ankeny-Artin-Chowla Conjecture
  Hugh Williams, University of Manitoba
  March 4 (Thursday), 3:00 pm, MC 5136.
• A New Lattice-Based Public-Key Cryptosystem
  Thomas Cusick, SUNY at Buffalo
  March 8 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• The NTRU Public-Key Cryptosystem (cont'd)
  Doug Stinson, University of Waterloo
  March 10 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Constructions for Cyclic Hadamard Difference Sets
  Solomon Golomb, University of Southern California
  March 19 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5158.
• Coppersmith's Work on Solving Polynomial Equations
  John Lawrence, University of Waterloo
  March 24 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Unit Computation in Purely Cubic Function Fields
  Renate Scheidler, University of Delaware
  March 30 (Tuesday), 1:00 pm, MC 5136.
• Coppersmith's Work on Solving Polynomial Equations (cont'd)
  John Lawrence, University of Waterloo
  March 31 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Coppersmith's Work on Solving Polynomial Equations (cont'd)
  John Lawrence, University of Waterloo
  April 7 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Electronic Commerce and Information Security Initiatives at Scotiabank
  Paul Wing, Scotiabank
  April 9 (Wednesday), 9:30 am, MC 5136.
• Curves with infinite rational fundamental groups
  Gerhard Frey, University of Essen
  April 21 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm, MC 5136.
• The efficient integration of broadcast encryption and traceability
  Jessica Staddon, RSA Data Security Inc.
  April 30 (Friday), 10:30 am, MC 5158.

• Hyperelliptic Function Fields and Cryptography
  Andreas Stein, University of Waterloo
  May 10 (Monday), 2:30 pm, MC 5158.
• Determining the Maximum Consistent Set of Shares in a Threshold Scheme
  Ruizhong Wei, University of Waterloo
  May 11 (Tuesday), 2:30 pm, MC 5158.
• The Potential and the Limitations of Unconditional Key Agreement
  Stefan Wolf, ETH Zurich
  May 12 (Wednesday), 2:30 pm, MC 5158.
• The Xedni Calculus Algorithm -- An Overview
  Neal Koblitz, University of Waterloo/University of Washington
  May 13 (Thursday), 9:30-12:30 pm, Certicom Corp.
• The Special Number Field Revisited
  Oliver Schirokauer, Oberlin College
  May 14 (Friday), 1:30-2:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Factoring N=pq^2 with the Elliptic Curve Method
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  May 31 (Monday), 3:30-4:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Trinomial Pairs and Irreducible Polynomials
  Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  June 18 (Friday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Nonlinear Generators of Pseudo Random Numbers
  Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University (Australia)
  September 14 (Tuesday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Secure Communication in Broadcast Channels
  Yongge Wang, University of Waterloo
  September 20 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Secret and Public-Key Cryptosystems from Finite Groups
  Spyros Magliveras, University of Waterloo/University of Nebraska
  September 27 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.

• A Combinatorial Approach to (T,M,S)-Nets
  Bill Martin, University of Waterloo/University of Winnipeg
  October 4 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• My Work-Term Experience at Pitney Bowes
  James Muir, University of Waterloo
  October 8 (Friday), 10:30 am, MC 5158.
• Ideal Arithmetic and Infrastructure of a Purely Cubic Function Field
  Renate Scheidler, University of Waterloo
  October 18 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Certification of Secure RSA Keys
  Steven Galbraith, University of Waterloo
  October 25 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Combinatorial Methods for Traceability
  Douglas Stinson, University of Waterloo
  November 8 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Spukhafte Fernwirkungen (Spooky Action at a Distance) Alain Tapp, University of Waterloo
  November 15 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• Secure Metering Schemes: Models, Schemes and Analysis Barbara Masucci, University of Waterloo
  November 22 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.
• New Designs for Binary Sequences with Low Correlation and Large Linear Span Guang Gong, University of Waterloo
  November 29 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.

• Selected Topics in Lucas-Based Primality Testing
  Siguna Muller, University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
  December 6 (Monday), 3:30 pm, MC 5136.